[AccessD] Unbound control in continuous form

David McAfee davidmcafee at gmail.com
Wed Mar 2 18:43:12 CST 2016


true, but I thought she just wanted to do something like show/store a line
number for an order

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 4:14 PM, Stuart McLachlan <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
wrote:

> If it's calcuated field in the query, any control bound to it will not be
> editable.  Which sort of
> defeats the prupose :(
>
>
> On 2 Mar 2016 at 16:04, David McAfee wrote:
>
> > Can you make the form based on a query instead of a table and just add
> > a calculated field in the query?
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Susan Harkins <ssharkins at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Yeah, but I thought maybe they'd made an improvement since it would
> > > be so cool to just be able to "do" it. You have to jump through a
> > > lot of hoops to work around it. Okay... a temporary table isn't all
> > > that difficult but still... if they can give us a multi-value field,
> > > why not a continuous form unbound control?
> > >
> > > Susan H.
> > >
> > >
> > > If you think about it logically, it must be so.
> > >
> > > Unless bound to a field,it is all the same control,  just like the
> > > labels and any other type of control on the form.
> > >
> > > It is the binding itself that makes a bound control unique to each
> > > row.
> > >
> > > Otherwise: "There can be only one".  :)
> > >
> > > --
> > > Stuart
> > >
> > > On 2 Mar 2016 at 14:23, Susan Harkins wrote:
> > >
> > > > Thanks -- I did a bit of research and couldn't find any new
> > > > capabilities on this front. Thanks for confirming that.
> > > >
> > > > Susan H.
> > > > Nothing new....you can add the control, but if unbound, then it's
> > > > the same for all rows.
> > > >
> > > > Jim.
> > > >
> > > >
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