Forms INSIDE a tab control?

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Maury Markowitz

I have a page that I would like to "tabify", allowing users to select one of
several different forms to see. Each one would look and run differently,
including different recordsets, form layout and controls. Right now the user
clicks buttons that open the other forms in maximized view, but it's kinda
clunky and doesn't look very nice.

It _appears_ that I can't do this with a tab control. If I'm reading it all
correctly, it seems that the tab control exists within the form, not the
other way around. I don't see any obvious way to put the forms I have now
into the tabs, everything I try puts the tabs into the form.

Is there some way to do what I want? Should I make a new form with no
recordset to contain just the tab control, or something like that?
 
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Rick Brandt

Maury said:
I have a page that I would like to "tabify", allowing users to select
one of several different forms to see. Each one would look and run
differently, including different recordsets, form layout and
controls. Right now the user clicks buttons that open the other forms
in maximized view, but it's kinda clunky and doesn't look very nice.

It _appears_ that I can't do this with a tab control. If I'm reading
it all correctly, it seems that the tab control exists within the
form, not the other way around. I don't see any obvious way to put
the forms I have now into the tabs, everything I try puts the tabs
into the form.

Is there some way to do what I want? Should I make a new form with no
recordset to contain just the tab control, or something like that?
Click to expand...

Use subforms placing each one on a different TabPage. The main form can use
standard controls on one of the TabPages if you like, but the form can only
have one RecordSource so all ((except for one) need to be subforms.
 
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Maury Markowitz

Rick Brandt said:
Use subforms placing each one on a different TabPage. The main form can use
standard controls on one of the TabPages if you like, but the form can only
have one RecordSource so all ((except for one) need to be subforms.
Click to expand...

Is there anything special to making a subform that has no connection at all
to the main form? Or do I just leave the linking field blank and everything
works?

Maury
 
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Rick Brandt

Maury said:
Is there anything special to making a subform that has no connection
at all to the main form? Or do I just leave the linking field blank
and everything works?

Maury
Click to expand...

Yep. As long as you leave the MasterLink and ChildLink properties empty it
will not be affected by the main form (in terms of the rows displyed).
 
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