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From: "Bill Mosca" <wrmosca@...>
Subject: RE: [MS_AccessPros] Re: About my post re split forms and controls disappearing
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John
I did create a form just for testing. Not that I doubted you...I just wanted to
see it happen. I think it's counter-intuitive (at least as far as my intuition
goes <g>). I'd rather see the controls, but have them locked and maybe a warning
pop up when the filter is applied and returns no records...just like I do with
my reports that return no records. I let the user know why the report is not
going to open instead of just showing the #error# junk.
I'm afraid such a feature would make me spend more useless time assuring my
users that the application is indeed not broken. They do tend to panic over the
littlest things because they are caregivers first and computer users second.
John Viescas, author
Microsoft Office Access 2007 Inside Out
Building Microsoft Access Applications
Microsoft Office Access 2003 Inside Out
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John
I've never seen that before. I guess because I've built forms that don't
fall
under those specs. Interesting to say the least. I would have thought you
would
see the controls but they would be locked. It seems funny to just blank out
the
entire form.
If the filter causes the form to return no rows, and the form does not allow
new records (either because Allow Additions is False or the recordset is not
updatable), the form goes blank. It's been that way forever.
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Subject: RE: [MS_AccessPros] Re: About my post re split forms and controls
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John
Why would filtering cause controls to vanish? I don't understand this one.
Regards,
Bill
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Subject: RE: [MS_AccessPros] Re: About my post re split forms and controls
disappearing
Terence-
Sorry, but that's the way Access has always worked. When you filter a form
that cannot add records so that it has no records, all the controls
disappear. It's a "feature," not a bug.
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Subject: [MS_AccessPros] Re: About my post re split forms and controls
disappearing
I thought I would explain the business purpose this form achieves, because
its purpose has a generic fundamental use to all. and thought I have not
attempted to duplicate the error in a small test form which lack all the
other stuff in my form, i am pretty sure it can be duplicated.
1 Create 2 tables
table one will contain two fields Name & Date, we will call it table "GOOD"
We will use this table and add to it entries of when people are GOOD !
Hence a person gets added to the table, their name and the date they are
good.
Table 2 has one field ...a Name of people...these are the people That we can
choose from to add them to the GOOD table, we will call this table the NAME
table.
Now we create a split form. The top has a listbox displaying all the
DISTINCT DATES in the GOOD table. The second listbox displays all the
POTENTIAL names from the NAME table. NOTICE that the difficulty is that we
MUST make the listbox for names connect to the NAME table, If we connect the
NAME/listbox to only the GOOD table, the result would be that only names
show which already exits in the GOOD table. Hence the listbox in that
scenario will only show names that have at some point been added to the GOOD
table. Someone like "johnny", who is bad would never show up in the GOOD
table, and therefore never show in the NAME/listbox
BUT I wanted the listbox to display all names GOOD and Bad, so the
NAME/listbox depicts ALL the Names of the NAME TABLE and a click on the name
in the NAME listbox should cause the dataportion in the bottom to show all
the Dates that JOHNNY" was good.
Now IF Johnny was NEVER GOOD, The Name/Listbox would show His name, But when
clicked, the database has NO entry for Johnny in the GOOD Table, hence the
dataportion should display NO Records.
BUT Instead, when that situation occurs, The Dataportion goes blank, NO
Column Header no nothing, The TOP Form portion, BOTH Listboxes will also
DISSAPEAR.
Now if you toggle the filtered button at the bottom of the datasheet, the
form and dataportion gets restored.
BUT I REALLY don't think the top form controls aught to vanish ?
Terence
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<buffalome90210@...> wrote:
>
> oh cantare monami
>
> Hi Bill !....... pretending I'm John :)
>
> NO NO NO....the weirdness is the the cONTROLS on the top portion , The
Form Portion, THE listboxes themselves vanish into thin air.
>
> THE ENTIRE form on top, all controls, textboxes, listboxes, labels,
headers, button......................VANISHES
>
> regarding the truefalse thingy opposed to yes no.....The NO worked but the
yes did not,
>
> Now let me go back to true false and give that a whirl, as I said earlier,
For production I have chosen a different technique, so this is academic, BUT
its still very odd.
>
> Terence
>
>
>
>
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<mailto:MS_Access_Professionals%40yahoogroups.com> , "Bill Mosca" <wrmosca@>
wrote:
> >
> > Terence
> >
> >
> >
> > 1. You should be using Me.FilterOn False . The options are
True/False
> >
> >
> >
> > And when you turn a filter on after it being off I'm pretty sure you
have to
> > requery to refresh the recordset.
> >
> >
> >
> > 2. Are you saying not all of the fields in the bottom are showing?
They
> > should all show unless you specifically hide them.
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Bill Mosca,
> >
> > MS Access MVP
> >
> > <http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Bill.Mosca>
> > http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Bill.Mosca
> >
> > That'll do IT <http://www.thatlldoit.com/> http://thatlldoit.com
> >
> > Founder, MS_Access_Professionals
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> > From: MS_Access_Professionals@yahoogroups.com
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> > Subject: [MS_AccessPros] About my post re split forms and controls
dissapearing
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I have been playiong with them a bit, and reading about somne of the
mysterious
> > quirks.
> >
> > I have gotten around all the issues I had/have so nothing is eminant.
> >
> > The two questions I have remaining are:
> >
> > 1. I was able to toggle (programatically) the filter off via Me.filter
> > NO.....But have not been able to re-0establish the filter....Turn it
back on, OR
> > rest the entire form to its load state....any Ideas.
> >
> > 2. The strange manifestation I saw on the split form, I ralize and
accept that
> > their are quirks, and that my filters may be a bit odd...BUT, I still
don't
> > understand, not accept, that a filtered Split form should have the
ability to
> > make the controls in the form portion "NON Visible" ?...That I fail to
> > understand..how..why..under any circumstances it should occur.
> >
> > Terence
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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