RE: 2nd form with recordset of 1st

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Hi, John.

> I have 2 forms. the first will show a filtered list of items. The 2nd will
> show details of 1 item selected from the first form.

Use the WHERE clause criteria to filter the 2nd form's records when it
opens. However, the Record Source of the form must have a primary key in
order to uniquely identify which record is needed.

In the following example, CurrRatesBtn is the name of the button that is
clicked to open the frmRates form (the 2nd form), ID is the primary key of
the Record Source of the second form, txtID is the name of the text box on
the current form displaying this primary key value. This example shows a
numeric value. A string value has slightly different syntax, so if you don't
know the syntax for a string, please post back.

Private Sub CurrRatesBtn_Click()

On Error GoTo ErrHandler

DoCmd.OpenForm "frmRates", acNormal, , "ID = " & Me!txtID.Value

Exit Sub

ErrHandler:

MsgBox "Error in CurrRatesBtn_Click( ) in " & Me.Name & " form." & _
vbCrLf & vbCrLf & _
"Error #" & Err.Number & vbCrLf & Err.Description
Err.Clear

End Sub

HTH.
Gunny

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"johnmate" wrote:

> I have 2 forms. the first will show a filtered list of items. The 2nd will
> show details of 1 item selected from the first form. I am currently using
> docmd.OpenForm on the first form.
>
> The problem is the recordset used for the forms is a quary and do to the
> size of the quary the 2nd form take a long time to load as it has to run the
> quary and searh the entire result everytime. The question is: Can I make the
> 2nd form use the filtered recordset from the first form for the detail view?
> or can I make the 2nd form reuse the quary data it already has in future
> searches?
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> thanks john
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