Use Copies of Forms

Question

i have a form that pulls in data, crunches numbers, does things. it works perfectly.

the problem is the code is i can only access one market at a time and i want to

Answer 1

It's up to you to create Properties on the MarketForm that you can set externally, so that each instance relates to a specific Market. I've used MarketName but you'll have to figure out what makes sense in your case.

Inside the code for MarketForm create something like this (you'll need to modify your existing code to use it instead of however you are currently picking a market)

Public Property MarketName As String

With object-oriented programming it is easy to create different instances of any object (Form in this case).

Dim myMarketForm1 As New MarketForm
myMarketForm1.MarketName = "Eastern"
myMarketForm1.Show()

Dim myMarketForm2 As New MarketForm
myMarketForm2.MarketName = "Central"
myMarketForm2.Show()
`... and so on