Grouping controls?

[tylerg11]

If I want a certain group of controls to display based on certain criteria, is there any way to group controls into an overall group so I don't have to set criteria on multiple controls?

[Robeen]

Would a Sub Form work for you?
You could load your controls onto the sub form and have it either visible or not depending on your criteria.
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[tylerg11]

Would a Sub Form work for you?
You could load your controls onto the sub form and have it either visible or not depending on your criteria.
?

That might work. And it would just be unbound?

[Robeen]

I'm not sure what you need to do with the controls that you want to hide and show - so I can't say whether they need to be bound or not.

I seem to remember there being another control [looked like a rectangular box] onto which you could load text boxes, combo boxes etc - any controls] and then you could refer to everything on the container control as a group - but I don't know if that was in Access or one of the other languages/environments I have worked in.

I remember one other thing I did on a project several years ago was to have a function that either displayed or hid a certain group of controls.
Yes - you have to code for each control when you write the function - but then after that, all you do is call the function and it will hide everything if the current Visible property [or a boolean 'Flag' if you have one set up] is True - or show everything if it is False.
Basically - the function flips the Visible Property of all the controls that you need to hide or show.

Hope this helps.

[tylerg11]

I'm not sure what you need to do with the controls that you want to hide and show - so I can't say whether they need to be bound or not.

I seem to remember there being another control [looked like a rectangular box] onto which you could load text boxes, combo boxes etc - any controls] and then you could refer to everything on the container control as a group - but I don't know if that was in Access or one of the other languages/environments I have worked in.

I remember one other thing I did on a project several years ago was to have a function that either displayed or hid a certain group of controls.
Yes - you have to code for each control when you write the function - but then after that, all you do is call the function and it will hide everything if the current Visible property [or a boolean 'Flag' if you have one set up] is True - or show everything if it is False.
Basically - the function flips the Visible Property of all the controls that you need to hide or show.

Hope this helps.

Interesting...Thanks.

[Robeen]

You're welcome.

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