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What is best to have browswe or subform

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    What is best to have browswe or subform

    I do not expect a lengthy response, just a simple opinion.
    The reason I ask, is because I am trying to install a subform and I found it, very difficult.
    Yet a browser seems easier. Is there an advantage one over the other?

    The problem I have with subforms is that after I add the control of subform to the main form, when I add the fields to the subform they go to the main form, not to the box of the subform.
    What I am doing wrong?

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    Re: What is best to have browswe or subform

    when I add the fields to the subform they go to the main form, not to the box of the subform.
    You may be misunderstanding how this works. You don't drag-frop fields onto the subform.

    You create a subform. That subform is designed as you place it. To change the subform, double click on it and edit it.
    There can be only one.

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      #3
      Re: What is best to have browswe or subform

      Ok, I hear what you say, but it does not make sense, maybe I am thinking with influence of other programs.
      This is what I see.
      I did try both ways, based on the set and based on the main form
      Lets use the process based on the set form/table->childtable.
      Open a “main_form”. Drag a subform button and make square.
      Subform object opens up. (end of step 1)
      Step a:
      I select the child table and default form
      The cursor still is holding the icon, but I click in the subform object and it goes away.
      Now I have a sub-form object on the screen. (Default).
      I cannot drag fields here. I have noticed.
      If I save it and open it, I get a default form. I see no way to modify.

      Or Step B:
      I select the child table and select a predefined form based on the child form.same as the cursor still is holding the icon, but I click in the subform object and it goes away.
      Same as above.

      Is the secret how the childform is designed?
      At what point I can right click and select the fields?
      I have not found in the manual how to create a subform. The only reference is under “placing a subform” and that is what I am doing. I must be missing some basic step.

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        Re: What is best to have browswe or subform

        Step a:
        I select the child table and default form
        The cursor still is holding the icon, but I click in the subform object and it goes away.
        Now I have a sub-form object on the screen. (Default).
        I cannot drag fields here. I have noticed.
        If I save it and open it, I get a default form. I see no way to modify.
        At this point, double left click on the sub-form object. You should get the message

        "This is a default form object. Do you want to link this form object to a new form object?"

        Answer yes and you are able to design the sub-form as you wish just as if you were designing a new form.
        There can be only one.

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          #5
          Re: What is best to have browswe or subform

          Nothing like hand held to a programmer that cannot read. I dd not read your line before properly about DOUBLE CLICK IN THE SUBFORM.
          I see now how it works. Actually you are creating the new form from here.
          Very impresive.
          One more question. How do I make it display in a tabular format. When I place the fields from the dragDrop list, it only show them in one row, they do not cascade.

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            #6
            Re: What is best to have browswe or subform

            select the corresponding icon at the top of the drag-drop list for whether the fields/labels are to be stacked vertically or placed horizontally.
            Last edited by MikeC; 12-05-2008, 12:42 AM.
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              #7
              Re: What is best to have browswe or subform

              Selecting the fields from the DragDrop box is not the issue. is the results that only shows one record in the subform per main form. In a subform you expect all the records matching the main form plus sliders in the area of the subform. They do not show.

              IN alpha is it that the only way to show a subform in tabular shape is to show as browse?

              Is that is the case, then the right choice is to select a browse in the first place. Is it?

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                #8
                Re: What is best to have browswe or subform

                Originally posted by MikeData View Post
                Is that is the case, then the right choice is to select a browse in the first place. Is it?
                All depends on what you want. In Alpha a form or subform displays one record, a browse displays, potentially, many records.
                There can be only one.

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                  #9
                  Re: What is best to have browswe or subform

                  Stan Tha answers the original posting. Now I understand the meaning of subform in Alpha. What I was referring as subform was a browse in reality.
                  In other programs a subform could have both shapes. I will follow the apha sample and continue.
                  Thanks to all

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