
MS Access As A Dev Tool
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The material below originally appeared in Alison Balter's book Mastering Microsoft Office Access 2007 Development and is reprinted here with the author's permission. There may be references to "Figures" that are not reprintable and are not used on this page
After you have added a subform, you need to understand how to work with it. To begin, familiarize yourself with a few properties of a Subform control:
You should also understand how to make changes to the subform. One option is to open the subform in a separate window (as you would open any other form). After you close and save the form, all the changes automatically appear in the parent form. The other choice is to modify the subform from within the main form. With the main form open, the subform is visible. Any changes made to the design of the subform from within the main form are permanent.
The default view of the subform is Datasheet or Continuous Forms, depending on how you added the subform and what options you selected. If you want to modify the default view, simply change the subform's Default View property.
When the subform is displayed in Datasheet view, the order of the fields in the subform has no bearing on the datasheet that appears in the main form. The order of the columns in the datasheet depends on the tab order of the fields in the subform. You must therefore modify the tab order of the fields in the subform to change the order of the fields in the resulting datasheet.
Access 2003 made it easier to work with subforms and subreports in Design view. Scrolling was improved so that it's easier to design subforms and subreports. In addition, you can open subforms in their own separate Design view window by right-clicking the subform and selecting Subform in New Window. Alternatively, instead of rightclicking the subform, you can select the subform and then click to select Subform in New Window from the Tools group on the Design tab of the ribbon.
One strategy when building forms is to base them on queries; by doing this, you generally get optimal performance and flexibility. Instead of bringing all fields and all records over the network, you bring only the fields and records you need. The benefits are even more pronounced in a client/server environment where the query is run on the server. Even in an environment where data is stored in the proprietary Access file format (.accdb) on a file server, a form based on a stored query can take better advantage of Access's indexing and paging features. By basing a form on a query, you also have more control over which records are included in the form and in what order they appear. Finally, you can base a form on a query containing a one-to-many join, viewing parent and child information as if it were one record. Notice in Figure 5.58 that the client and project information appear on one form as if they were one record.
This material originally appeared in Alison Balter's book Mastering Microsoft Office Access 2007 Development and is reprinted here with the author's permission.
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