[AccessD] Empty Field Label

Rocky Smolin rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Thu Apr 9 13:38:51 CDT 2009


I thought about that but since it's a continuous form it would have to be in
the conditional formatting.  I couldn't seem to get it to work after fooling
with it for a couple of minutes.  Again - that old cost/benefit thing.  He
doesn't want me to spend two hours trying to figure it out.

Rocky


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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Doug Murphy
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 11:29 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Empty Field Label

Could you have two text boxes for the field and make them visible/invisible
depending on content? 

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 10:18 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Empty Field Label

Well, it's a continuous form.  SO the format of the record on the continuous
would have to change based on the record. I don't think you can do that in a
continuous form.  I'm also thinking the cost/benefit is not in the client's
favor.  :)

Rocky


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan Harkins
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 9:28 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Empty Field Label

Rocky, sounds like a class to me, and in lieu of that, can't you create a
function using an input mask property that you could just call rather than
dealing with each individual control? You could use the label's caption as
the text, right? Don't know how to help with the combo box problem.

Susan H.



> Dear List:
>
> He also wants to extend this technique to text boxes that already have 
> a format. For example, the 'Date Worked' field has ddd d-mmm-yyyy for 
> a format.  If the field does not have a date he'd like the words 'Date 
> Worked'
> to appear in red.  But if I paste @;"Date Worked"[Red] into the format 
> property it'll override the date format when there's a date in the field.
> Any way to finesse that one?

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