al said:
I just finished a tabbed page, saved it and went to form view. I lost
all the form view except for the header. I can still see the
information in design view but not in form view. Thanks
The Details section of a form appears blank when the form has no records to
display and no capability to enter new ones.
Think of the form as a banded design like a report (because that is actually
the case). The form header and footer are each rendered exactly once when
the form is opened. The Details section is rendered as many times as there
are rows in the underlying recordset. If that Recordset contains zero rows
then the Details section is never rendered at all and thus you see nothing
there.
If the form and its recordset allow new records to be added (as is usually
the case) you will have an extra row to accomodate the new record position.
That is what you see when the Details section is rendered and all of the
controls are empty (except for those with default values).
So, you normally don't see a totally blank Details section because having a
form that both has no existing rows and no capability to add new ones is not
that common, but it is exactly what is expected to be shown when that does
occur.
