[AccessD] [Private] filtering a subform

Hi Susan

You could use the method I sent you recently - using Choose().
Not fancy but extremely simple.

/gustav

>>> ssharkins at bellsouth.net 22-09-2005 01:16 >>>
There's no criteria by which to filter -- I want to add an All option that
shows all the records. 

The first few options related to values. By setting the subform's master
link property to the option group, I can get the subform to filter without
any code. 

Unfortunately, I can't figure out a way to force the subform to show all the
records. The option group won't work because there's no underlying value to
represent All in the data in the same way. In addition, a subform has no
Record Source property, so I can't set it that way. 

Here's the example -- using Products in Northwind, use an option group to
create three options: Active, Discontinued, and All. Name the option group
grpStatus and set the two option buttons' Option Value properties to 0 and
-1, accordingly. Add a subform based on Products and set the subform's Child
Link Fields to Discontinued and set the Master Link Fields to grpStatus.
Works great until you want to add an option that isn't represented in the
underlying data -- like an All option. 

Now, I can go to a code solution for all three options -- I just wanted to
offer the simplest solution possible. 

Susan H. 



Something like this.... You would of course need to build the
strSearchString criteria

Dim strSearchString		As String

With me.ctrSubform.Form
.Filter = strSearchString
.FilterOn = True
End with 


Robert

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com 
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan Harkins
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:45 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: [AccessD] filtering a subform

I'm trying to use an option group to filter a subform -- easy enough as long
as there's some relationship between the options and the subform. 
 
If there's no relationship and you don't want to use the subform's linking
properties, how do you set the filter the subform's Record Source? The
subform is based on a query.