Open a form to a specific tab

Question

When a button is pressed I want to open a form at a specific tab.

on click event I have:

DoCmd.OpenForm "MAIN_USER_FORM", acNormal, , "App_Ref = " & Me.App_Ref, , , "PRB"

On the open event of the form I have:

If Me.OpenArgs = "PRB" Then
   Me.PRB_Validation.SetFocus

End If

PRB_Validation is the name of the tab in the MAIN_USER_FORM I wish to open.

I've searched forms, I just can't get it to work any help would be great. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

All you need is to check the OpenArgs in the form's OnLoad event, and set the TabCtontrol's value to the index of the page you want to show, like this:

Private Sub Form_Load()
    If OpenArgs = "PRB" Then
        TabCtl0.Value = PagePRB.PageIndex
    End If
End Sub

I made an example accdb to show the complete setup.

Answer 2

In case if anyone is looking for code where you have a button on another form and want to open Main form from that and also take user to a particular Tab.

Private Sub YourButton_Click()
On Error GoTo Err_YourButton_Click

    Dim stDocName As String
    Dim stLinkCriteria As String

    stDocName = "YourFormName"
    DoCmd.OpenForm stDocName, , , stLinkCriteria
    Forms![YourFormName]!YourPage.SetFocus

Exit_YourButton_Click:
    Exit Sub

Err_YourButton_Click:
    MsgBox Err.Description
    Resume Exit_YourButton_Click

End Sub