visible property

[Guest]

I have a subform that opens invisible to start a "encounter clock" to time a
session. When a button is clicked on the main form to end the session, I
want that subform to appear so that the user can "sign off and stop the
clock" on the session then click a button located on that subform to save the
"clock and sign off" info then make the subform become invisible again so
that the user to go on to another record. After the code to save the record,
I wrote : Forms!StartEncounter.Visible = False but got the error "Microsoft
Access can't find the form StartEncounter referred to in Visual Basic. What
did I do wrong?

 

[Roger Carlson]

You have to reference the subform through the main form. Something like:

Forms!MainForm!StartEncounter.Visible = false

If the code is on the form itself, you can use:

Me.StartEncounter.Visible = False

This assumes that the name of the subform CONTROL on the main form is named
"StartEncounter". The subform control can have a different nave from the
subform itself.

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[J. Goddard]

Hi -

It's not the form itself you want to make invisible - it's the subform
control on the main form. When you click the button on the subform to
close it, go back to a control on the main form, then use
me![subformcontainer].visible=false to hide it again.

As for the error - is StartEncounter the name of the form, or is it the
name of the subform control on the main form? If it is the control
name, that is the cause of the error.

John