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Input Mask Question
I just don't understand something findemental about input masks. Please
enlighten me. I can set an input mask on table fields, and I can also set it on Form fileds. *I WOULD THINK* that if I put the inopaut mask in the form design, that it would always cary over if that field is used in a form. I know I could set the mask up in the form . . .but I have to do it everywhere that field is used. Am I missing something?? |
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"Mixer1" wrote in message ... I just don't understand something findemental about input masks. Please enlighten me. I can set an input mask on table fields, and I can also set it on Form fileds. *I WOULD THINK* that if I put the inopaut mask in the form design, that it would always cary over if that field is used in a form. I know I could set the mask up in the form . . .but I have to do it everywhere that field is used. Am I missing something?? If you set certain properties at the table level and then use a wizard to build a form or report based on that table some of those properties will be carried over, but it is the wizard (generally) that makes that happen. Properties (for the most part) are not inherited. Certainly if you make such changes at the table level forms and reports that already exist will not pick those properties up. p.s. Input Masks are evil. -- Rick Brandt, Microsoft Access MVP Email (as appropriate) to... RBrandt at Hunter dot com |
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Duh!
OK OK I guess I added the masks after the form was created with the wizard!!! So, if the property is there in the table before a FORM IS CREATED, it should carry over? Long day . . . . "Rick Brandt" wrote: "Mixer1" wrote in message ... I just don't understand something findemental about input masks. Please enlighten me. I can set an input mask on table fields, and I can also set it on Form fileds. *I WOULD THINK* that if I put the inopaut mask in the form design, that it would always cary over if that field is used in a form. I know I could set the mask up in the form . . .but I have to do it everywhere that field is used. Am I missing something?? If you set certain properties at the table level and then use a wizard to build a form or report based on that table some of those properties will be carried over, but it is the wizard (generally) that makes that happen. Properties (for the most part) are not inherited. Certainly if you make such changes at the table level forms and reports that already exist will not pick those properties up. p.s. Input Masks are evil. -- Rick Brandt, Microsoft Access MVP Email (as appropriate) to... RBrandt at Hunter dot com |
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"Mixer1" wrote in message
... Duh! OK OK I guess I added the masks after the form was created with the wizard!!! So, if the property is there in the table before a FORM IS CREATED, it should carry over? Long day . . . . Given the variety of Access versions and wizards out there, "should" might be too strong a choice of words. Suffice to say that it sometimes happens. When it doesn't you need to add them yourself. -- Rick Brandt, Microsoft Access MVP Email (as appropriate) to... RBrandt at Hunter dot com |
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Note, Rick's note "input masks are evil"
A few notes regarding input masks: The do not have any effect on how the data are stored nor how they are displayed. They are only intended to ensure the entry conforms to a specific format. They are more trouble than they are worth. -- Dave Hargis, Microsoft Access MVP "Mixer1" wrote: Duh! OK OK I guess I added the masks after the form was created with the wizard!!! So, if the property is there in the table before a FORM IS CREATED, it should carry over? Long day . . . . "Rick Brandt" wrote: "Mixer1" wrote in message ... I just don't understand something findemental about input masks. Please enlighten me. I can set an input mask on table fields, and I can also set it on Form fileds. *I WOULD THINK* that if I put the inopaut mask in the form design, that it would always cary over if that field is used in a form. I know I could set the mask up in the form . . .but I have to do it everywhere that field is used. Am I missing something?? If you set certain properties at the table level and then use a wizard to build a form or report based on that table some of those properties will be carried over, but it is the wizard (generally) that makes that happen. Properties (for the most part) are not inherited. Certainly if you make such changes at the table level forms and reports that already exist will not pick those properties up. p.s. Input Masks are evil. -- Rick Brandt, Microsoft Access MVP Email (as appropriate) to... RBrandt at Hunter dot com |
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Input Mask Question
So, if the property is there in the table before a FORM IS CREATED, it
should carry over? slight modification to: So, if the property is there in the table before a field is added to a form, it should carry over? i.e., if you add a mask (or other property) to a field at the table level, you *might* be able to delete the field from an existing form, add it again and have the mask appear. Doesn't matter when the form was created, it matters when the field was added to the form. -- HTH, George "Mixer1" wrote in message ... Duh! OK OK I guess I added the masks after the form was created with the wizard!!! So, if the property is there in the table before a FORM IS CREATED, it should carry over? Long day . . . . "Rick Brandt" wrote: "Mixer1" wrote in message ... I just don't understand something findemental about input masks. Please enlighten me. I can set an input mask on table fields, and I can also set it on Form fileds. *I WOULD THINK* that if I put the inopaut mask in the form design, that it would always cary over if that field is used in a form. I know I could set the mask up in the form . . .but I have to do it everywhere that field is used. Am I missing something?? If you set certain properties at the table level and then use a wizard to build a form or report based on that table some of those properties will be carried over, but it is the wizard (generally) that makes that happen. Properties (for the most part) are not inherited. Certainly if you make such changes at the table level forms and reports that already exist will not pick those properties up. p.s. Input Masks are evil. -- Rick Brandt, Microsoft Access MVP Email (as appropriate) to... RBrandt at Hunter dot com |
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