[AccessD] Continuous subform on a continuous subform

Steve Schapel miscellany at mvps.org
Tue Mar 18 17:52:38 CDT 2008


Hi Rocky,

It just echoes some of the comments others have made, but you may find 
this article helpful:
http://accesstips.datamanagementsolutions.biz/subsub.htm

Regards
Steve

Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software wrote:
> Dear List:
>  
> I would like to put a continuous subform on a continuous subform, but I'm
> getting a message that this can't be done.  So I'm trying to find a way
> around this. 
>  
> The form tracks incoming shipments.  The main form is single form showing
> the shipment info in the header.
>  
> Each shipment can have more than one purchase order. So the purchase orders
> are listed in the detail section.  Form is continuous.  So far so good.
>  
> However, each purchase order can have several lots. And for each P.O. added
> to the shipment the client wants to see all the lots attached to that PO.
> The lots and purchase orders are already in the tables.  They're going to
> create the shipment last (this incoming shipment thing is an add-on to the
> existing legacy system).
>  
> So the user creates a new incoming shipment and adds existing purchase
> orders (incoming shipment POs are in a table with the shipment table PK as
> the FK) .  So I've got the purchase orders displaying in a continuous form.
> 
>  
> But for each P.O. the client wants to see all the lots attached to that PO.
> So I think, OK, subform of lots (lots have the PO number as a field) linking
> the selected PO numbers to the lots.  Subform in a subform.
>  
> But no-go.  So, how does one finesse this?  
>  
> MTIA
>  
> Rocky



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