Subform repeated on one form

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I have access controlled sections on one form which allows different offices to have their own section to review and close the form. Each office section has their own fields, each section has the same layout, same field, and same purpose.As of now I have 16 different sections, but with everything the same…I tried to create one subform for these sections so that I can only make changes to one subform instead of 16 different sections…however, the form does not allow me to place the same subform twice.

Any simplier way to do this? When I have a design change in the section, I have to change it 16 times!

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Subject: Think about why the designer has to stop you …

its because fields on the subform will create items on the document

AND If you have the same subform more than once that is bound to try to create many items with the same name …

which is not allowed (subforms or no subforms)

so you are stymied from this direct route …

however as often happens, the problem itself gives a pointer to its solution,

rather than have 16 distinct controlled sections on the same form - each adding extra items to the main document

why dont you have aseparate document for each departments approval?

(that way you can use the same form for each one )

You could show the approval docs from an embeeded view on the main document and open it on double click

Access control can be implmented by authors field on the approval document etc.

You would need some code that ‘combined’ all the approvals onto the top level doc

but I assume you already have some rules coded for that any way

I realise that this is a bit of a rewrite but should be practical

especially if you consider that once done its virtually independent of the number of departments needed to approve a prticular doc

Perhaps you could only create approval docs for teh departments needed by a particular document

(thereby optimising things)

What do you think?