MS Access 2007 subform reload on formheader = visible?

Question

I'm getting strange behavior in Access 2007 on a form designed in Access 2003.

I have an unbound main form with a data-bound subform. Within the Form_load of the main form, I set the subform sourceobject, which loads the subform recordset, etc. After the subform loads, but still within the Form_load of the main form, I set Me.FormHeader.Visible = True . After this line runs, for some reason the subform seems to close and reopen -- its Form_Unload fires, and it runs through its load process again.

Any idea why this would be happening? It's annoying, because its recordset is based on a parameter query, and the parameters get zapped when it reloads so it ends up prompting users for parameters.

Answer 1

Sometimes you have to live with (and work around) the behavior of MS Access, no matter how strange or annoying it is.

In this case I would probably advise that you move away from a parameter query and instead prompt the user for their input using VBA, store their input in a form level variable, and use that input to set the recordsource during the subform's Form_Load event. This way the user will only be prompted one time and never need to know that the form actually loaded twice.