[AccessD] Disabling an Option Group

[Rocky Smolin]

Yes, that would work if the user tried to change the urgency on a header
record. But only when that record on the continuous form is selected.

The client wants a visual cue that the urgency field is not disabled.

(Clients…you never know what they’re going to ask for next…😛)

R

On Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 11:51 PM Gustav Brock via AccessD <
accessd at databaseadvisors.com> wrote:

> Hi Rocky
>
> Maybe you, at the OnCurrent event, could lock the option group if the
> record is a heading?
>
> /gustav
>
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>
> Dear List:
>
> I have a continuous form with a procedure - series of steps. Some of those
> records are "Headings" - not operational steps. Each step also has a
> priority or urgency field which is an option group with five option
> buttons.
>
> I have used conditional formatting to make the background of the fields of
> the heading lines purple - non-heading line fields are white.
>
> Client now would like to have the option group on the heading lines
> disabled. But conditional formatting doesn't appear to be an option for an
> option group. (At least not in Access 2010, which is what I'm using.)
>
> I'm going to give him the bad news that option groups don't
> support conditional formatting. He'll be OK with that.
>
> But...does anyone have any clever or kludgey ideas to give him what he
> wants?
>
> MTIA
>
> r
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