Hi,

i am having a problem regarding popup form and master form, and i have tried too many things but could not succeed. so i am requesting for any solutions, so thanks in advance for considering my problem

i have one Master form : frmEnrollment and one Subform on it : frmEnrollmentVsEducation

now on frmEnrollmentVsEducation, i have a combobox named : InstituteID and one "add new Institute" button near it, to allow user to add new institute if they are not in list.

when user press this button, form frmInstitute pops up in add new mode and adds new Institute Details.

problem : after adding new Institute, pop up form (frmInstitute) is closed but my parent form's Combo box (InstituteID) does not reflect that newly added record automatically.

can plz any one suggest how to refresh my parent form's combox automatically to that i do not require to add refresh button everywhere, i have too many combo boxes in my project and i am facing same problem for every combo box.

thanks for your consideration, all suggestion are welcome

ashok sharma

I think that if you create a procedure in the GotFocus event of the master form, you could have the form refresh its data when it comes back to the front.

Something like this:

Private Sub Form_GotFocus()
DoCmd.Requery
End Sub

Have you tried that yet?

Shane

thanx shane for your reply,

i have tried this, but this have a slight problem, that this event will fire everytime my form got focus.

my problem was to refresh my list only when i add new institute with popup form.

thanx once again

ashok sharma

Then you could place the procedure in the (frmInstitute) Add button's onClick or MouseUp event.....?

Does the Add button close the frmInstitute form? If so, you could place the procedure in the Close event of the frmInstitute form.

Hope this helps,

Shane

Thanx NassauBob

for your suggestion, i got the solution, and the solution is to add a common function in module which checks that the parent form is opened or not, if it is opened, it requery the data in the combo box and closes the pop up form.
therefore the parent form's combo box is also synchronized with new entry

thanks again for your consideration and help

ashok sharma