Specifying Find and Add/Details forms for a component

To specify a Find form and/or an Add/Details form for a component:

  1. With a form open and in Design Mode. select a component.
  2. Add a shortcut menu that presents the appropriate commands for the component.
  3. Optionally, specify a Find form:  
    1. For the Find Form property in the Component property sheet, specify the name of the query form for the item referenced in the current component.
    2. For the Property property, specify the name of the property to be bound to the component, as it is known to the query form.
    3. To specify more complex criteria for opening the form, click the ellipsis (...) button.
  4. Optionally, specify an Add/Details form:
    1. For the Add/Details Form property, specify the name of the form to be used to maintain the item referenced by the current component.
    2. To specify more complex criteria for opening the form, click the ellipsis (...) button.
Related topics
Adding or changing a component's context (shortcut) menu
About drill-down from components to additional data