Is there a way to individually reference a Tag? Please help!

[tstoneami]

I guess I can't figure this one out. I can see how to iterate over all the controls to find the Tag collection, then do something with it.



Problem is that since I know the name of the tag, I just want to do something with it (height, visibility, etc). But I can't figure out how to reference a tag directly without iterating over all the controls.

Something like me.tag("tagname").height=0

God I am going nuts with this.

[pbaldy]

One of us is confused, because the tag property isn't something visible to the user as far as I know.

[tstoneami]

I grouped controls in a tag name. I want to reference that tag name like you would a text field field, to set it's visibility, etc.

Like, I have a whole sections of a report I would like to make not visible based on user choices before they are run - for example.

Haha! Yep, confused am I.

[June7]

Don't think either can reference tag directly. It is property of control and it is the control property you want to set. The tag value can be used as criteria whether or not action should occur.

There are ways to restrict the controls that are included in iteration.

[pbaldy]

Well, I haven't worked with 2010 extensively, but the only "tag" I'm aware of is a property of an individual control. You don't mean a tab control, do you? Or can you post a picture of what you're describing?

[tstoneami]

http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-...-property.aspx

In this blog its described how you can group controls into a tag name, iterate over all the controls, and when you hit the controls with a certain tag perform an action.

My problem is that I can't see a way to iterate individual tags, only iterating over all of them as a whole. I can't see a way around doing this multiple times in my application.

Because I already know what tags(collections) I need to perform which specific action to, I'd like to just reference them directly.

Hope this makes better sense. Right now I am being forced to individually address lines in a report in format VBA - very tedious. If I could affect the tagged group as a whiole it would be much better.

[tstoneami]

http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-...-property.aspx

In this blog its described how you can group controls into a tag name, iterate over all the controls, and when you hit the controls with a certain tag perform an action.

My problem is that I can't see a way to iterate individual tags, only iterating over all of them as a whole. I can't see a way around doing this multiple times in my application.

Because I already know what tags(collections) I need to perform which specific action to, I'd like to just reference them directly.

Hope this makes better sense.

I have been successful using this method looking for instr() and field lengths. But again I only know how to iterate them.

[June7]

Never used tag property. If I need to manage control properties (Visible, Enabled, BackStyle, etc) with VBA, I usually just reference each control specifically in code. In several cases I gave controls similar names with an incrementing suffix then I reference those controls in a loop by constructing their name with a variable.

[pbaldy]

I've used it, as it can be handy to affect a group of controls, but to my knowledge you have to iterate with the loop, testing for the desired tag value.