Viewing subforms withour scrollbars and record selectors

[majoral]

Hi

I'm trying to develop a form in my database which uses a number of subforms to display data from a number of different queries. Is there a way to remove everything (e.g. the scroll bars, record selectors and column headings) and just show the raw data? Basically I am trying to get what's shown in the first image below to looks like the second image (which is from a report using subreports)

thanks

 

[Minty]

The short answer is yes, design the sub-form as a proper form, and turn off the record selectors, navigation buttons, scroll bars etc.
You don't have to use datasheet view in a subform.

 

[arnelgp]

bring your form in desgin view and click on the
subform where you want to remove the record selector/scrollbar.
and on its property:

 

[majoral]

thanks both - really useful info and i will check this out

 

[anski]

Hi. Were you able to find a solution to this? I am also finding a way for the vertical scroll bar of a subform not to appear. Setting Scroll Bars to Neither using the property sheet of the subform did not work.

 

[CJ_London]

suggest use a listbox instead of a subform

 

[anski]

suggest use a listbox instead of a subform

the field types in the subform are textboxes.

 

[arnelgp]

you can try using DLookup() for the ControlSource of the textbox:

for "Major Application" line, on the first textbox:

=DLookup("CounfOfDTyp", Qry - Major Dev Stats Summary")

 

[CJ_London]

the field types in the subform are textboxes

so change to a list box, put the recordsource to your subform as the rowsource of the listbox and set the listbox one row high

Edit: that would leave a dividing line between columns which I guess you don't want, so go with the original suggestion of a continuous subform rather than a datasheet, or use two listboxes rather than 1 or use dlookup as suggested by Arnel

 

[anski]

so change to a list box, put the recordsource to your subform as the rowsource of the listbox and set the listbox one row high

Edit: that would leave a dividing line between columns which I guess you don't want, so go with the original suggestion of a continuous subform rather than a datasheet, or use two listboxes rather than 1 or use dlookup as suggested by Arnel

for clarification, if in my original form i have 5 text boxes, instead of using text boxes, i should use list boxes (5 list boxes)? am i understanding you correctly?

 

[anski]

thanks for the suggestions. i figured out a solution to the vertical scroll bar issue by trial and error - adjusting the height of the subform and the detail section of the main form. (played around with different heights until i finally got what i wanted.)

 

[CJ_London]

for clarification, if in my original form i have 5 text boxes, instead of using text boxes, i should use list boxes (5 list boxes)? am i understanding you correctly?

that is what I meant - but you have two columns so I thought you had 10 text boxes, (5 rows of 2) and that would not hide the vertical bar between them

 

[arnelgp]

is this what you have in mind.