designView

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Designates a .QBE query or table that is used when designing a form.

Property of

Form, SubForm

Description

Use designView to facilitate creating and dataLinking a form that uses form-based data handling with tables in work areas. The value in designView is ignored at runtime. When using the data objects, do not use designView or view.

There are two main instances in which you may want to use designView instead of view.

If you know which tables will be open when the form is opened at runtime, use designView to avoid opening the tables again with view when the form is opened.

If you don’t know which tables will be open when the form is opened at runtime, but need certain tables open to design the form, use designView to automatically open the tables at design time, regardless of the tables needed at runtime.

If you specify a view property for a form, you should not also specify a designView property.