Subdatasheets in MS Access - What, How, & Why

In this Microsoft Access tutorial we are going to talk about Subdatasheets: what they are, how to use them, and why I don't let end-users play with them. This is a good tool for you, the developer, to quickly and easily see table data and related child records, however it's a feature that I almost never provide to end users in a finished database.

Pre-Requisite

• Relationships: https://599cd.com/Relationships

Links

• Referential Integrity: https://599cd.com/Referential
• Subforms: https://599cd.com/Subform
• Continuous Forms: https://599cd.com/Continuous
• Subform in a Continuous Form: https://599cd.com/SubformInContForm
• Nested Subforms: https://599cd.com/NestedContinuous
• Source Object: https://599cd.com/SourceObject

Recommended Courses

• Access Expert 2: https://599cd.com/ACX2
• Relationship Seminar: https://599cd.com/RelationshipSeminar

Details

Subdatasheets in Microsoft Access are a feature that allows you to view related data from different tables in a single datasheet. They are accessed through expand indicators or subdatasheet indicators, which are little plus signs to the left of a table row. When you click on the expand indicator, Access displays a subdatasheet that contains all the related data for that row. Subdatasheets are used in one-to-many relationships, where one record in a table can have many related records in another table. By using subdatasheets, you can quickly access and analyze related data without having to switch between multiple datasheets or queries. Additionally, you can customize the subdatasheet layout, change the table that it represents, and work with different types of relationships.

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