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    Message for Tom Baker

    Hi,

    Tom, as mentioned in my private message to you, you very kindly helped me with a form design for raising invoices which has worked fine, but now because of raising cancellation invoices for the same booking I have had to change the link in a set from one to one, to one to many. So now when I have finished entering data into the invoice section the values disappear and it looks like there isn't a record there, but when I check the invoice table it is.

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    Re: Message for Tom Baker

    Judith

    The problem is that alpha does not know which booking reference invoice that should be shown on the form. When it was one to one, alpha matched the booking reference and would show the invoice which related to the booking reference on the form.

    I am in work right now, but will work on the app when I get home this evening (11 PM your time) and see what I can up with.

    Tom

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      Re: Message for Tom Baker

      Hi Tom,

      Thanks for your reply, would I go be going along the right lines to ask if I should be using a subform so that more than one invoice can correspond to the booking.

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        Re: Message for Tom Baker

        You could create a reverse set: Invoices 1:1 Bookings. Then you will see each invoice related to it's booking.
        Peter
        AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

        [email protected]
        https://www.alphabasesolutions.com


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          Re: Message for Tom Baker

          Hi Judith

          Here is a revised zip file.

          I used a subform on the bookings2 form instead of the old form fields and a dialog.

          I changed the field rules for the invref2 field in the invoice table form user entered to auto-increment and then changed the default entry in the Data Entry Tab to the next invoice number 53042.

          The subform is just the reworked Invoice_form that was used as the dialog form in the old app. I got rid of all the invoice fields in the Bookings2 form that would show if an invoice was entered - that is now the area for the subform which looks almost like it was.

          To enter a new record for the booking reference that you are viewing you would use the same new invoice button as before, however this time it will start a new invoice in the subform. To save the record entered into the subform, you would use the save record button for the parentform at the bottom. Also to Cancel a record entered into the subform before saving, use the cancel button down there also. The new record button at the bottom of the form is for entering new records into the parentform not the subform - so only use the new record button for new records into the parent form.

          Also the subform has navigation buttons on the form - they are standard First, previous, next and last buttons. This will go from invoice to invoice based on the current booking reference being viewed. If there are no more invoices and your click the next button it will put the subform into enter mode.

          See if this gives you what you want. I did this pretty fast so there are not a lot of bells and whistles but you can do that later if this works for you. Also not knowing your needs as to entering data into the invoice form, I did not do a lot of testing. Need you to do that since you will know whether it works or not for you.

          Let me know how it works for you.

          Tom
          Last edited by Tbaker; 06-14-2010, 09:13 PM. Reason: another thought - Edit 2 more thoughts

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            Re: Message for Tom Baker

            Judith

            Here is a revised sample.

            Seems that Alpha has a problem in refreshing the subform. In error when I tested it this morning I was using Version 10 (which has the problem fixed). I still have to check on my home machine since I thought I was using version 9 there.

            Anyway I created a workaround for the refresh problem by putting a hidden embedded browse on the subform. Now the navigation buttons work the way they were supposed to. If there are additional invoices, the nav buttons will take you to the next invoice in order by using the hidden embedded browse which does refresh the subform. Your users will not know that this is doing since the browse is hidden. All they see is the invoice form and the nav buttons.

            Try this one.

            Let me know.

            Tom Baker

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