MS Access - Passing Data from a Subform to another Form - vba

Question

I have a main form (Form1) which is used to search records and the subform to that form contains all records searched. Editing or adding data is not available in Form1.
I want to be able to click on a record from the subform and click a button, to copy that particular record, to a seperate form (Form2). I want to do this so that the user doesn't have to manually copy and paste the data from Form1-subform to Form2.
I have tried continuous form but the maximum width of it is not enough. I'm new to Access and trying to figure out a way to solve this problem.
Can anyone suggest a way of doing this.
TIA

Answer 1

There are several ways to do this, i don't know the correct technical terms but i hope it can help;
Option 1 : Insert from subform to the relevant table that's conected to the main form
Example :
Form Data : tblCustomer
Subform Data : tblPotentialCustomer
So to add the data from the subform to the form just try something like this :
public sub Insert
Dim strSQL as string
Dim strPotentialCustomerName as string
Dim strPotentialCustomerKey as string
strPotentialCustomerName = me.subform.PotentialCustomerName
strPotentialCustomerKey = me.subform.PotentialCustomerKey
strSQL = "Insert into tblCustomer (CustomerName,PotentialCustomerKey) Values ('"& strPotentialCustomerName &"','"& strPotentialCustomerKey &"')"
call Currentdb.execute(strSQL,dbseechanges)
'--- BEWARE : In the mainform the new record is not automaticaly show, so you need an event to handle this.
end sub
Option 2 : Insert it to the main form directly using parent
Try to reach the relevant object like:
From your subform:
me.parent!CustomerName = mySubform.PotentialCustomerName
Hope this sets you in the right direction.
All the best !