Text box text not visible in a header

[Kavy]

Good Day

I have two forms, one was copied from the other when I made it, so it has the same control source and other properties.

The forms have some of the same controls on them but when I go to form view, one of the forms won't display any values in the text boxes. The text-boxes all have control sources. I tried copying and pasting text boxes from the duplicate form to the problem form, but these text boxes have the same issue, no text is displayed.

After some experimenting, I notice if I am in layout view, the text in the text box appears on the problem form. I then realized my text boxes are in the header of the problem form, when I move them to the body, they work again, but I can't make them display properly in the header.

Does anyone know why?

Thank you

 

[Kavy]

Ok, so I decided to copy and past my text boxes from my problem form to my duplicate, and at first everything was fine. But now it as infected my duplicate form!

 

[Kavy]

Found it, I turned off the "Record Selectors" property. When I turned it back on, it worked. The only thing is, I don't want a record selector vertical bar to appear, does anyone know a way around this?

 

[Kavy]

Ah , got it for real I think. The form needs controls in order to function, meaning, I can't just have controls in the header, I have to have something in the body for the header to know what record it is referencing. I had subforms, but apparently they are not enough.