Untangling MS Template

[JR]

I am adapting the TASKS "Template" (actually an Access Db) provided by MS.
It almost meets all my requirements and I have been able to modify/adapt all
items EXCEPT for some of their forms which serve the function of allowing the
user of another form to add, for example, another task to the task list.

Simplest (it seems) problem is that once the form (Task Details) is open you
can not get to the design view. You have to enter design view befor you open
the form, when you modify it and open it to look at it and check
functionality you have to exit the form before you can go back to the design
view.

Bigger problem is that except for changing the formatting, it seems
impossible to add any fields to the form that function in the way the already
existing control functions (adding data to the tables (there are two) that
have to be updated.

Can anyone provide any insight into how this form (Task Details) does what
it does and why you can not modify it?

Thanks!

JR

 

[Jeff Boyce]

You can add anything you want to a form ... but until you tell Access how to
connect it to data, what you've added is just decoration.

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Access MVP

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[JR]

What about the first part of the question ... why won't this particular form
(and the others like it from the template) allow you to move back and forth
from form view to design view?

JR

 

[Jeff Boyce]

No idea. Haven't run across that before.

Have you tried searching on-line with those keywords?

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Access MVP

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[John W. Vinson]

What about the first part of the question ... why won't this particular form
(and the others like it from the template) allow you to move back and forth
from form view to design view?

Perhaps because the form's "Allow Design Changes" property is set to "Design
View Only"...?