Hello everyone,
This is my first time posting here and I'm hoping someone can help me out. I'm a relative newbie to Access and am pretty much learning as I go along, so please bear with me.
Here is what I am trying to do. I'm building a simple database that will allow our engineering staff to enter in the items from the inventory warehouse that will be required for a project. Each inventory item has a unique part number, which is entered by the user.
I have a query set up that pulls all of the required information together, and then there is a report based on this query.
What I am ultimately trying to do is have a command button at the end of the order form that allows the user to print the order based on the current order number in the form.
I have set up the query criteria using:
[forms]![frm_Ordered_Ite ms]![order_number]
If I have the frm_Ordered_Ite ms open by itself, and put a command button at the bottom to open the report based on the query using this criteria, it works perfectly.
The problem is that I've set up the form as a sub-form, and once it's nested into the other form, a popup button comes up and calls for the query parameter to be entered manually. How can I change this so that it will perform the query and bring up the report automatically?
I hope I've given enough information to explain the situtation clearly.
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If you are trying to refer to a subform, you must first refer to the control on the main form that contains it. Then you can refer to the controls on the subform. - Forms!MainForm!frm_Ordered_Items.Form!order_number
Just replace MainForm with whatever the name is of your main form.
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Don
Okay, I just cheered out loud in the middle of my super quiet office... everyone is wondering what the heck I'm up to now. :-)
That was exactly the fix. I've googled it a billion times and couldn't find the right syntax.
Thank you SO much!!
Glad I could help, good luck with your project.
Thanks for that link, that will be a big help in the future.
Printing that out for my stash of references.
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You're welcome AJ.
Do you realise we also have a whole forum ( Access Insights) just for such articles. To a large extent they are responses to Frequently Asked Questions. Issues that come up over and over again. There's other stuff there too, but it's where we put the answers we need to link to most.
Hi!
I think, I have the same problem but still wasn't able to fix it. Mine is 2 combo boxes, the 2nd combo box is based on a query, getting values related to the 1st combo box. It is working perfectly when not as a subform. But, when I make it as a subform, a parameter value is asked. How do I fix it? And, in ExpenseDetail table, I put, ExpenseID, which is a primary key in ExpenseT, also a table. Will I only be able to generate ExpenseIDs if I can fix my problem above? Please help!
Thanks,
This worked for me now. Just changed the name of the subform then followed your syntax. 👏👏👏👍🙏
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