[AccessD] Continuous subform on a continuous subform

Dan Waters dwaters at usinternet.com
Wed Mar 19 10:39:13 CDT 2008


Great treeviews!

I have an Open Items List form for each person which can be categorized by
Business Process - this would be a good place for a treeview!

Thanks!
Dan

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Drew Wutka
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 9:51 AM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Continuous subform on a continuous subform

True, which is why I've really liked Treeviews.

http://www.marlow.com/treeviewform.jpg

is a form in one of the systems I have running.  It's for Process
Administration.  You can view the data either by process owners or by
processes.  More importantly, you can edit the data behind the treeview
from the treeview itself.  In the picture linked above, I right clicked
on 'Senior Leadership Network Permissions', and it gives me a menu
'Remove Senior Leadership Network Permissions From Barry Nickerson'.  I
don't build enough Access interfaces to know how easy or difficult it is
to programmatically create/modify menus.  In VB it's pretty simple.  If
I want to let them add a Process to a Process Owner (or vice versa) in
this particular form I open a popup form with a combo box with the
available list of Processes or Process Owners (depending on which view
the list is in).  I can also open a menu with that list as the menu
items.  Also, Treeviews let you edit their data (labels).  I have a
similar form with Request Types and Sub types.  We can rename them just
by editing the labels:

http://www.marlow.com/treeviewform2.jpg

The check boxes determine if the request type or request subtype is
used.  Single clicking on the label itself allows you to edit the type
or subtypes name.  

What I like best, however, is that treeviews let you add a little visual
representation of your data.

http://www.marlow.com/treeviewform3.jpg

that's our company phone list. I've clicked on my listing (which has a
'person' icon), and as you can see, the items below it are listed with
an appropriate icon.  Cell phone, regular phone, camera for the badge
photo (clicking that expands the form and displays the photo to the
right), envelope for sending an email, etc.

I think it's a nicer interface.  The previous version of this phone
list, I had the data displayed in a Flexgrid.  It worked, and displayed
the data, but it was no where near as visually pleasing as the treeview
version. (Nor as capable....with the items being 'nodes', I can list as
many items as I want, without worrying about column widths....)

Drew

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte
Foust
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 7:28 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Continuous subform on a continuous subform

Unfortunately, I've never found a way to edit list controls ;-> and
multiple columns are problematic.

Charlotte Foust 

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan Harkins
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:44 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Continuous subform on a continuous subform

> The usual way to handle this is to use multiple subforms at the same 
> level rather than nested.  It's often easier to popup a continuous 
> subform from a button rather than embedding it.  If you nest at the 
> same level, you pass the key value up to a control on the parent form,

> and that's the link the other subform uses to filter its records.

=======As a personal druther, I actually find it easier to work with
list controls than subforms -- can't say why, I just do -- and they look
cool too. It isn't an automate populating soluting like subforms, but
rather, a drill-down solution.

Susan H. 

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