[AccessD] How do I create list of all forms/subforms

In any event, as I mentioned, it is possible to bind subforms into subform controls at runtime.  I 
call it Just In Time subforms.  The subform control is there but that control does not have a 
subform bound in it.  In fact once common technique is to bind different subforms into the same 
subform control.  This is done all the time in Microsoft's wizards.  The upshot is that the 
documentor does not know that a subform is a subform, nor will the loop pick these up.

I use JIT subforms extensively to speed up loading of complex forms.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

On 5/25/2011 4:01 PM, William Benson (VBACreations.Com) wrote:
> John,
>
> Hope this is clear ... I don't do this very much. Just saying it is possible
> ... and certainly I would use the loop method mentioned already, with
> Allforms - so this was just me describing an alternative
>
> The result of the database documentor can be exported to a Word or an Excel
> file and if you use Excel or Word automation you can read that file and get
> the details you want.
>
> I am not recommending one way over the other (well if I were to recommend
> one, it would be Allforms  lol)
>
> Bill
>
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> Bill,
>
> Did I miss something?  Why are you doing it in Excel or Word?  I thought
> this was regarding subforms in Access.
>
> What in the heck is the doc/xls?
>
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
> On 5/25/2011 10:32 AM, William Benson (VBACreations.Com) wrote:
>>>> " probably the only way to do it"
>> Jon, with all due respect, I posted another way. It is very easy to
>> write a once-and-for-all macro in Excel or Word to loop through lines
>> in the output doc/xls and make a listing of subform controls...
>>
>> Bill
>>
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>> That's probably the only way to do it.  Any form could be a subform.
>>
>> Unfortunately even this won't work if you use Just-In-Time subforms
>> since the subforms aren't bound until runtime.
>>
>> John W. Colby
>> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>>
>> On 5/24/2011 8:53 PM, Darrell Burns wrote:
>>> I sorta figured it out, although it seems messy...
>>> 1. loop thru the Allforms collection, 2. open each form in acDesign
>>> and acHidden modes, 3. scan the controls for subforms and grab the
>>> names, 4. close each form If there's a more straightforward way, I'm
>>> still interested.
>>>
>>> BTW, thanx for the "Find and Replace" tip. That'll come in handy in
>>> some other places.
>>> Your other brother,
>>> Darrell
>>>
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>>> Collins
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>>> Any chance you can rename them?  Or will your client get annoyed at
>>> you.  If you can rename them then I use and recommend "Find and Replace"
>> by Rick
>>> Fisher for this sort of job<<http://www.rickworld.com/>>     you can use
> the
>>> free trial version, although I found the paid version paid for itself
>>> in about 5 mins flat (is is about $30 USD from memory).
>>>
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>>> I do too, but my client wasn't so thoughtful.
>>>
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>>> McLachlan
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>>>     That's why I use a naming convention in complex applications that
>>> specifically identifies subforms and keeps them together in the forms
>>> list :-)
>>>
>>> frmMain
>>> frmMain_subCustomersList
>>> frmMain_subCustomerDetails
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I want to generate a list of all the forms and their subforms in my
>>>> application (whether loaded or not). Right now I'm looping over
>>>> Application.CurrentProject.Allforms and getting the name of every
>>>> form, but the object doesn't distinguish a subform from a form. I
>>>> tried the Type property but they're all Type 2. Is there a routine
>>>> out there I can scarf? Thanx, Darrell
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