Bound form’s unbound controls do not get updated
Bound form’s unbound controls do not get updated, when underlying recordsource has no records. I just noticed this in Access XP, and found a workaround. Say you have a continuous form, with 2 textboxes on form’s header to filter by date range. I also added few buttons to set these dates to predefined ranges – say this week, last month, etc. So once you have no records in underlying query, and press one of these buttons – values in the textboxes get changed (debug.print shows this), but form still shows old dates! The trick – is to run Me.Recalc at the end of button click event.
posted by Alex Dybenko | 12:34
4 Comments:
Bound forms do not get updated when underlying recordsource has no records.
Try this: bind form to read-only empty recordset (or bind read-only form to empty recordset).
Add code to Open and Load events.
Now try to open the form in form view.
Details Section does not paint. Open event fires: Load event does not.
Now close form: Load event fires
(david)
Thank you for comment, David.
Anyway - this is quite unexpected behavior, let us hope that this will be fixed in Access 2007
I mentioned the same problem in Access 2003 XP. In my case I have a text box that computes week number based on the date in another text box (the source data is an expression). Unfortunately recalc does not help. (refresh, repaint either). It seems to be big bug.
Maxim
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Thanks. I had this issue in 2003 and 2000 adps. Re-calculating the form did not work, but recalculating the controls did:
Function DisplayUnboundWhenEmptyRecordset(FormToSetDefaults As Form)
Dim ctl As Control
'Solves a known bug in Access 2000, 2003
'http://accessblog.net/2006/02/bound-forms-unbound-controls-do-not.html
For Each ctl In FormToSetDefaults.FormHeader.Controls
If ctl.ControlType = acTextBox _
Or ctl.ControlType = acCheckBox _
Or ctl.ControlType = acComboBox _
Or ctl.ControlType = acListBox _
Or ctl.ControlType = acOptionGroup Then
ctl.Requery
End If
Next ctl
End Function
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