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    balderman is offline Advanced Beginner
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    Help/Advice for a subform inside a form

    Ok. I am working on a customer database for my job. It is a database for customer profiles and work orders. I want to link the works orders to the customer profile. I know there is a way to do this with a subform I just can't seem to figure it out. What I want to happen is when we open a customer's profile, I want the work orders for that customer to show up in a separate tab and then be able to click on the work order from the list and have it open. I hope I explained it enough for you to understand what I mean.



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    aytee111 is offline Competent At Times
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    Main form with combobox to select a customer and display customer information. Listbox (or combobox or subform) with a list of work orders linked to that customer. Subform linked to the work order table, when the user clicks on a work order in the listbox the subform will display that work order's details.

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    You might want to think ahead a bit. Should you decide to want to be able to search for work orders by anything other than what you've described you'll need something more robust. F'rinstance, you might want to locate work orders based on start or end dates, executing department, creator, status (complete, in progress, late, pending) etc. That would require a search form of some type.
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    balderman is offline Advanced Beginner
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    Thanks! Sorry for the late response, had another project come up at work and had to put this aside for a while.

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