IsVisible Property

to determine whether a control on a report is visible. Read/write Boolean.

expression.IsVisible

expression    Required. An expression that returns one of the objects in the Applies To list.

Remarks

The IsVisible property uses the following settings.

Setting	Description
True	(Default) The control is visible.
False	The control isn't visible.

Note  You can set the IsVisible property only in the Print event of a report section that contains the control.

You can use the IsVisible property together with the HideDuplicates property to determine when a control on a report is visible and show or hide other controls as a result. For example, you could hide a line control when a text box control is hidden because it contains duplicate values.

Example

The following example uses the IsVisible property of a text box to control the display of a line control on a report. The report is based on a Products table and uses three controls with the following properties.

Properties	Line control	Text box #1	Text box #2
Name	Line0	CategoryID	ProductName
ControlSource		CategoryID	ProductName
HideDuplicates		Yes	No
Left	0	0	2.0
Top	0	.1	.1
Width	4.0	1.0	1.0

Paste the following code into the Declarations section of the report module, and then view the report to see the line formatting controlled by the IsVisible property:

Private Sub Detail_Print(Cancel As Integer, PrintCount As Integer)
    If Me!CategoryID.IsVisible Then
        Me!Line0.Visible = True
    Else
        Me!Line0.Visible = False
    End If
End Sub