Access web app - Check if form is in edit mode

Question

I want to hide some fields when a form is in edit mode but I can't figure out how to check that. I tried
That is not working. Is there another way to check the "state" of a form.
Thanks, Mike

Answer 1

Hi Mike,
Unfortunately, there is no existing method that I'm aware of to know if a view in an Access 2013 web app is currently in Edit mode or view mode. I can sympathize with you on this one since I’ve had many occasions in my apps where I wanted to use something
like this for various scenarios. I will pass along your feedback to the product team. You can set various properties on controls using macros, however, you cannot read control property values on views in Access 2013 web app views. The one exception is reading
values of data entry controls.
About the closest you can come to achieving you end goal would be to do a whole lot of extra work to control basic editing and save operations on that view. For example, you could create a new custom Action Bar button on your view with the same icon as the
existing Edit Action Bar button. Slide that one into the position you want in the Action Bar. For the On Click event of this custom one, you put the view into Edit mode, and then show the controls that you want (which are hidden by default I presume in the
On Load event of the view).
If you want to experiment with this technique, I would suggest trying it out on a copy of the view. There are a couple of caveats to this approach that I should point out. First, don’t delete the existing built in Edit and Save Action Bar buttons (or any
of the built in ones for that matter). Once deleted, you can never get them back. I am always in the habit of sliding ones I don’t want to the far right and then hiding them in the On Load event of the view. That way if I ever have a need in the future to
bring it back, the button(s) is still there for my use and all I have to do is remove the macro that is hiding it.
The second caveat is that once you put your view into Edit mode using your own custom Action Bar edit button and then click the save button to save the record changes, your hidden controls that you wanted to display on initial load will still show for the
next record. That may not be the behavior you want. In that case you would need to also create your own custom save Action Bar button too. In that On Click event, you would use the Save Record macro action and you would re-hide the controls that you want hidden
again for the next record since Access will automatically pop you back into view mode with the save operation. You’ll have to experiment with this if you want to try it. You might need to hide the controls before doing the Save Record action.
Hope that helps,
Jeff Conrad - Access Junkie - MVP Alumnus
Senior Content Developer - Modern Assistance and Support Experience - Microsoft Corporation
Author - Microsoft Access 2013 Inside Out
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