How to refresh an access form

Question

I am building an MS Access application in which all the forms are modal. However, after data change in a form, I want to refresh the parent form of this form with newer data. Is there any way to do it. To elaborate further :

Consider there are two forms, Form A and Form B. Both are modal form. From Form A, I initiate Form B, and now Form B has the user attention. But at the close of form B, I want to refresh the Form A. Is there a way to do it?

Answer 1

No, it is like I want to run Form_Load of Form A,if it is possible

-- Varun Mahajan

The usual way to do this is to put the relevant code in a procedure that can be called by both forms. It is best put the code in a standard module, but you could have it on Form a:

Form B:

Sub RunFormALoad()
   Forms!FormA.ToDoOnLoad
End Sub

Form A:

Public Sub Form_Load()
    ToDoOnLoad
End Sub    

Sub ToDoOnLoad()
    txtText = "Hi"
End Sub

Answer 2

You can repaint and / or requery:

On the close event of form B:

Forms!FormA.Requery

Is this what you mean?

Answer 3

"Requery" is indeed what you what you want to run, but you could do that in Form A's "On Got Focus" event. If you have code in your Form_Load, perhaps you can move it to Form_Got_Focus.

Answer 4

I recommend that you use REQUERY the specific combo box whose data you have changed AND that you do it after the Cmd.Close statement. that way, if you were inputing data, that data is also requeried.

DoCmd.Close
Forms![Form_Name]![Combo_Box_Name].Requery

you might also want to point to the recently changed value

Dim id As Integer
id = Me.[Index_Field]
DoCmd.Close
Forms![Form_Name]![Combo_Box_Name].Requery
Forms![Form_Name]![Combo_Box_Name] = id

this example supposes that you opened a form to input data into a secondary table.

let us say you save School_Index and School_Name in a School table and refer to it in a Student table (which contains only the School_Index field). while you are editing a student, you need to associate him with a school that is not in your School table, etc etc

Answer 5

to refresh the form you need to type - me.refresh in the button event on click