Conditional Box problem

[Thomas Holt]

Hello All,

I have a form with 2 fields living outside a large tabbed subform. The purpose of these 2 question was to determine whether the user could go on and open up the tabbed subform which hides behind a conditional box. All seems straight forward, except now the requirments have changed (super) and we now would like to lose the conditional box and place the two questions onto the tabbed subform.
Basically I have not been able to get around this problem, If I delete the conditional box all of the tabbed form is also deleted.
Maybe a cheat variable on the forms activate method may work???

Hope someone can helpon this matter. I now know I should have saved a copy of the tabbed subform as a seperate form, before adding the conditional box.

As always any help is greatly appreciated.

Cheers
Tom

[Stan Mathews]

RE: Conditional Box problem

Tom,

If I understand the problem, when you select the conditional object which covers the tabbed subform, the subform is also "selected". Then when you delete the conditional object, you are also deleting the suform.

Have you tried dragging the conditional object away from the subform so that you can select only one of them or ctrl-click to unselect one? Have you tried the "arrange" menu to send one or the other to the back? Have you tried bringing the subform to the front, copying to another form, back to first form, deleteing both objects, back to second form, copy tabbed subform, back to first form, past subform?

[Thomas Holt]

RE: Conditional Box problem

Hello Stan,

Thanks for the response. You are reading the problem correctly, in the sense that if I try to delete the conditional box the subform is also deleted. I have tried variants of your suggestions, copying the subform and pasting onto a new form. The problem I am having with this is that there are quite a few conditional boxed on the subform itself, which when pasted seem to get confused (?). They do not all stay on the subform when pasted to the new form.
I have managed to cheat by changing the conditions of the conditional box. It is now based on a form level variable (numeric), which I set when the form is opened. This then always shows the subform.

I know I should just bite the bullet adn redesign the whole form, it just a little frustrating as there is about 8 tabs and 100 odd fields.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers
Tom

[Terry Morgan]

RE: Conditional Box problem

Have you tried select all ctrl+A and then hold down shift to deselect the conditional object, then cut, then delete the conditional object, then paste. It may work & I guess its worth a try.
Terry

[Ohlen Cartmell]

RE: Conditional Box problem

Is there any chance you've grouped the objects so selecting one selects all?

[Thomas Holt]

RE: Conditional Box problem

Hello gents,

Thanks for all the suggestions, I've tried many combinations of creating new form, copy and pasting the subform, deleting the conditional box. Unfortunately it seemed by copying and pasting the subform the conditional boxes within the subform did not paste as wished.
The upshot of it all is I had recreate the whole form from scratch. Which was only hugely frustrating because if I had made a backup of the form before I added the conditional box covering the subform I would not have had the problem in the first place. So a few hours down the drain but another lesson learnt.

Many thanks to all those who responed to the problem.

Cheers
Tom