Why does it keep changing back?

Holy cow guys!....To answer one of the questions, yes I was changing it in
design view through the properties box, yes I had "allow addditions" marked
as yes as well. I will try some of the things that were suggested though,
thanks for all the replies!!!

"Dale Fye" wrote:

Are you trying to do this via code?

I had a similar problem a while back, where I had a subform in continuous
mode (AllowAdditions = False), and what I wanted to do was put the subform
into data entry mode when the user clicked an "Add" button.

What I found was that IAW Access Help, "The DataEntry property has an effect
only when the AllowAdditions property is set to Yes"

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HTH
Dale

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"ZigZagZak" wrote:

Hello-
Getting kinda frustrated with a form......
I have a main form & a subform. The subform I want to be an entry
form...but when I put it to "data entry" in the properties, it keeps changing
back to not a data entry form..........


WHY???? haha its making me crazy!

thanks!

If your still having issues after trying all those above you might look at
how you have your record locking setup, since it appears your main form is
using the same table as your subform it is possible that Access is preventing
the subform from being a data entry form due to record locking.

Also if you are using a query for the subform (you should always use queries
and not tables directly as thats more versatle for making changes without
"redesigning"), and your underlying query is not an "editable" query (i.e.
you can edit or add data) then the form (or subform in this case)
atomatically becomes uneditable.

Just another couple thoughts of what to look at..
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Thanks,
Tek


"ZigZagZak" wrote:

Holy cow guys!....To answer one of the questions, yes I was changing it in
design view through the properties box, yes I had "allow addditions" marked
as yes as well. I will try some of the things that were suggested though,
thanks for all the replies!!!

"Dale Fye" wrote:

Are you trying to do this via code?

I had a similar problem a while back, where I had a subform in continuous
mode (AllowAdditions = False), and what I wanted to do was put the subform
into data entry mode when the user clicked an "Add" button.

What I found was that IAW Access Help, "The DataEntry property has an effect
only when the AllowAdditions property is set to Yes"

--
HTH
Dale

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Please reply to newsgroup only.



"ZigZagZak" wrote:

Hello-
Getting kinda frustrated with a form......
I have a main form & a subform. The subform I want to be an entry
form...but when I put it to "data entry" in the properties, it keeps changing
back to not a data entry form..........


WHY???? haha its making me crazy!

thanks!