form header and body disappear

[greg d. via AccessMonster.com]

i have a form that i modified by changing the header and footer from
visible=no to yes. when i changed the header, the form worked fine. i moved
controls into the header and everything was great. when i changed the footer
to be visible, every time i open the form, all i see is the footer. the
header and detail section aren't visible and i have no scroll bars. any
guesses?

 

[Rob Parker]

You will get this situation if the footer section is larger than the window
in which the form is displaying; there will not be any scrollbar if you have
the form's scrollbar property set to Neither or Horizontal Only.

Open the form in design mode, scroll to the bottom of the form, and move the
lower boundary of the footer section up to a suitable spot.

HTH,

Rob

 

[kaosyeti]

Rob,
this did help the situation but raises a couple of questions. i can't
make my footer small enough to fit on-screen at one time. i have a number of
controls there, a summary page for the form (which is a 3-page detail section,
separated by 2 page breaks). the detail section is 21.25" itself. i would
have put the summary in there but there's apparently a maximum length that
i've exceeded.

what i've done is to set the on-open event to movesize the form and then
restore it. it's ugly with 2 scroll bars on-screen but it works.

the thing is, i don't need to have the header OR footer visible at all times
as the form is scrolled, so i'm wondering if there's another way? i
originally had everything on the detail section (lots of fields per record in
this table), but couldn't for the size reason i mentioned earlier. any ideas?

You will get this situation if the footer section is larger than the window
in which the form is displaying; there will not be any scrollbar if you have
the form's scrollbar property set to Neither or Horizontal Only.

Open the form in design mode, scroll to the bottom of the form, and move the
lower boundary of the footer section up to a suitable spot.

HTH,

Rob

i have a form that i modified by changing the header and footer from
visible=no to yes. when i changed the header, the form worked fine. i

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header and detail section aren't visible and i have no scroll bars. any
guesses?

 

[Rob Parker]

If you want to avoid having a very large detail section, you could use a tab
control to separate your data display into individual "pages". You could
then also put your summary data onto a separate tab page, rather than in the
form footer. I don't ever use page breaks on a form - I don't think they're
very user-friendly. And I don't think that a form which is nearly 22" long
(even with page breaks) is very user-friendly either.

HTH,

Rob

Rob,
this did help the situation but raises a couple of questions. i can't
make my footer small enough to fit on-screen at one time. i have a number
of
controls there, a summary page for the form (which is a 3-page detail
section,
separated by 2 page breaks). the detail section is 21.25" itself. i
would
have put the summary in there but there's apparently a maximum length that
i've exceeded.

what i've done is to set the on-open event to movesize the form and then
restore it. it's ugly with 2 scroll bars on-screen but it works.

the thing is, i don't need to have the header OR footer visible at all
times
as the form is scrolled, so i'm wondering if there's another way? i
originally had everything on the detail section (lots of fields per record
in
this table), but couldn't for the size reason i mentioned earlier. any
ideas?

You will get this situation if the footer section is larger than the
window
in which the form is displaying; there will not be any scrollbar if you
have
the form's scrollbar property set to Neither or Horizontal Only.

Open the form in design mode, scroll to the bottom of the form, and move
the
lower boundary of the footer section up to a suitable spot.

HTH,

Rob

i have a form that i modified by changing the header and footer from
visible=no to yes. when i changed the header, the form worked fine. i

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header and detail section aren't visible and i have no scroll bars. any
guesses?

 

[greg d. via AccessMonster.com]

i just wanted you to know that this is exactly what i needed. this was the
perfect solution. thanks!

If you want to avoid having a very large detail section, you could use a tab
control to separate your data display into individual "pages". You could
then also put your summary data onto a separate tab page, rather than in the
form footer. I don't ever use page breaks on a form - I don't think they're
very user-friendly. And I don't think that a form which is nearly 22" long
(even with page breaks) is very user-friendly either.

HTH,

Rob

Rob,
this did help the situation but raises a couple of questions. i can't

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