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  1. #1
    ry94080 is offline Novice
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    Form Conditional Formatting during Query

    Hi all,

    I have form that acts as a display board. Every few minutes it refreshes. The refresh can take up to 10 minutes as there is plenty of data to pull down.

    My issue is that one of the fields is a conditionally formatted field. If the value is 1, it shows a green box, 2 yellow, and 3 red.



    When the refresh takes place and the queries are running. The conditionally formatted field blanks out and waits for all the refresh queries to complete.

    Does anyone have any ideas to display 3 colored boxes based on a value that won't do this during runtime?

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    CJ_London is offline VIP
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    how efficient are your queries? - 10 mins seems a very long time to display what is presumably a summary.

    not sure if it would work, but perhaps divide your form into 4 or more display forms and refresh one after the other. Total time might be the same but the time to refresh each individual form would be less. You can have a 'background' form and position each (popup) form over it

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    Micron is offline Virtually Inert Person
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    Maybe base the cf on unbound hidden textboxes and only update those when the queries have all finished? Should work even if the unbound control is hidden.
    Something like "Expression Is [text10]="whatever"
    I didn't know what to put for 'whatever' part
    The more we hear silence, the more we begin to think about our value in this universe.
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