Find Parent Form (like breadcrumb)

[jgrande]

Please pardon the long post...
I would like to be able to find the parent form that called the form I am on... Basically what is before me in the breadcrumb path?
Example:
I have a Name/Address record for performers that have participated in our theater program.
Each performer has 0..X Audition records for each time they have auditioned for one of our shows.
This is a standard One-to-Many relationship.
When working with the "Audition Records" they are added to the table only when the parent record has been identified.
I have added a button to the "Name" form which calls the "Audition" after selecting a performer, This gives me the breadcrumb "path" that I need for adding a new audition record:
Breadcrumb shown on the Audition Browse Form:
Home-->Names-->Bob Smith-->Auditions
The Add button is shown and when clicked goes to the 'Audition" Edit form with the following breadcrumb:
Home-->Names-->Bob Smith-->Auditions-->New Record
This is the desired behavior and is working fine.

Later in the process, we need to be able to work on the group of records for a particular show without regard to the individual performer so I want to be able to call the "Audition" form from the "Home" screen directly.
When called in this fashion, the breadcrumb shown in the Audition Browse form is:
Home-->Auditions
In this case I want to disable the "Add" new record button so that only existing records can be searched and edited.

Is there any way to accomplish this? I assume that I could parse up the DOM object for the breadcrumb and hide the add button in Javascript but that seems kinda clunky...

Any "best practice" suggestions?

Thanks,

Jeff

[admin]

jgrande,

If I understand, when going to Audtions one way you want an Add Record Button and going to it another way you don't.

If so, Clone the Auditions Form.

Renaming Code and Description
Fill out Form to Edit (if not this one) with the original Audition's Code.
Set Add Button to No.

And finally create a new Button to open this Form.

The Edit Screen will always be the same, but it will be accessed by 2 different Browse Forms, one with Add New and one without.

Steven

[jgrande]

Steven,

That will work for my business case. Thanks for the quick reply.

Jeff

[admin]

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