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