Linking Pop up form to Main form

[CJONES]

I have a main form with a combo box where if a specific customer is
selected a popup form opens and additional information required for
this customer is entered into the form. Data from the main form and
popup form is stored in the same table. I have a field called
certification that I would like to use to link the forms.

[Rich P]

Greetings,

what you need to do is to open the popup form in dialog mode (which is
probably already the case). In the popup form you need to add a public
property (Get) and assign it the desired value. Note: a form is just a
class module except that it has a graphical user interface (GUI - the
GUI thing happens way under the hood for Access).

In the popup you can create a public property anywhere in the Form's
code module (not a standard module or standalone class module). In my
sample I am setting a Certification property to a Long datatype. If
your Certification is a string, then set the property to String

'--code for popup form
Public Property Get Certification() As Long
Certification = CLng(txtCertification.value)
End Property

Private Sub cmdOK_Click()
Me.Visible = False
End Sub

In the popup form here I have a textbox called txtCertification. A user
enters information here then clicks an OK button (cmdOK) which only
hides (Me.Visible = False) the form (don't unload the form - it has to
be running so that you can read the value from its property). In the
calling form you would call the popup like this:

'--code for main form
Private Sub Command3_Click()
On Error Resume Next
DoCmd.Openform "frmPopup", acNormal, , , , acDialog, "test123"
Debug.Print Forms("frmPopup").Certification

End Sub

You can also pass a value to the popup using the openArgs property.
Here I pass "test123" to the popup. You can read the value in the popup
Load event

Private Sub Form_Load()
txtCertification = Me.OpenArgs
End Sub

Rich

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[ARC]

Assuming both forms have the same recordsource, all you have to do is make a
slightly different record source on the popup, where you will refer to the
main form.

For example, if the main form is called Customers, and has a hidden field on
it called CustomerID, then the recordsource for your popup form would be the
same as the original, however, add the field: CustomerID, and set critieria
to: forms!Customers.form!CustomerID

Hope this helps,

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>I have a main form with a combo box where if a specific customer is
selected a popup form opens and additional information required for
this customer is entered into the form. Data from the main form and
popup form is stored in the same table. I have a field called
certification that I would like to use to link the forms.