Subform do not reflect changes made to original form

[smsmail]

Hello,

When modifications are made to the parent form the subform do not reflect the change.

What could be the possible cause? What have I missed?

Thanks so much for your help!

 

[MajP]

Please provide a lot more information. What exactly are you talking about? Design changes? Changes to data? etc. Spend some time and spend to get a good answer.

 

[smsmail]

Hi MajP

I have a subform imbedded in an unbound form. The subform is populated based on search criteria the user inputs in the unbound fields on the form the subform is imbedded in.

When I make design changes to the parent form, the subform do not reflect the modifications made to the parent form. The data is correct.

Is this normal?

 

[MajP]

No it does not make sense. What is the expectation? If you change the background color of the main form, do you expect the background color of the child form to change? They are two different forms?

 

[smsmail]

MajP

What I mean by design changes, is adding/deleting fields on the parent form. I thought the subform would reflect the changes.

 

[MajP]

No the main form and a subform will have their own seperate recordsource property. The only way they would be the same would be if they were the same query. However, basing the two forms on the same query would make little sense. So removing fields from the main forms recordsource query would have no effect on the subform's recordsource property.

 

[smsmail]

Thank you.