Subforms Appearing blank

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Lee Brown

I have been developing a database for my recruiting business for many
years. I have a subform on a main contact (tabbed) page that is named
MANAGEMENT. I have another subform named DECISION CRITERIA.

On My machine, the subforms appear just as they should - I have a
master/child relationship linking the subforms based on the
candidate's IDNUM.

The problem I am having is that all of a sudden (I have been using /
developing / tweaking this application for 10 years) the subforms on
other recruiter's machines appear blanked (yet mine appear populated
where I can see all the controls and data in the subforms on my
machine). Unfortunately for me, I wasn't smart enough to manage the
configuration control of the machines in my office (with machines
randomly failing), and I have checked for latest versions, etc.

We are using MSOffice 2003 SP2 and Office XP Pro on our machines.
(sidenote - when I upgraded one machine to office 2007, closing a
customer's screen crashed the system every time on the 2 test
machines, so it was uninstalled).

I have tried every method of requery. I even tried (unsuccessfully)
to call the subform's onopen event from the main form. I do
understand that the subform events fire prior to the parent form
(which I didnt learn until today).

The parent is frm_Cand_Detail. The management form is named
subfrm_Cand_MGT and is referenced on the cand detail form as
MANAGEMENT. The decision criteria form is named
subfrm_Cand_Decision_Criteria and it is referenced on the
frm_Cand_Detail as subfrm_Cand_Decision_Criteria. Another subform I
use is named subfrm_Cand_PresentTo, and is referenced as it is named.

I have even tried deleting the subforms on the employees' computers
and adding it again, to no avail.

If you can suggest any solutions, I would be indebted to you. My
employees are growing frustrated.

Thanks,
Lee Brown
 
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jeff

Hi Lee

I dont know if i can help you, but i have a few questions:

prior to the failure was the app working on the other user's machine?
if it was, did you make a change to your app after which it fails?
or did something get changed on the other user's machine?
are you using security ie on forms or the database tables?
are you using a separate Application mdb with linked tables to the Data mdb?

Regards
Jeff
 

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