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While designing a form, the Form View goes blank, Why?



 
 
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Old September 5th, 2008, 06:00 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.tablesdbdesign
Pheecaitdj
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Default While designing a form, the Form View goes blank, Why?

This happened while designing a form. I finally noticed I was using too many
tables, now it is happening while designing a report. I would like to know
what causes this so I can learn to avoid it.
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Old September 5th, 2008, 11:08 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.tablesdbdesign
John W. Vinson
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Default While designing a form, the Form View goes blank, Why?

On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 10:00:01 -0700, Pheecaitdj
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This happened while designing a form. I finally noticed I was using too many
tables, now it is happening while designing a report. I would like to know
what causes this so I can learn to avoid it.


A Form based on a query which a) returns no records and b) is not updateable
will be just blank - not even the controls visible. Be sure that your tables
are correctly related and that your Query has appropriate joins. Ordinarily
one would not base a Form on a multitable query - use a Form (for the "one"
side table of a relationship) with Subforms (for the "many") instead.
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John W. Vinson [MVP]
 




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