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  • DeanL
    #1

    Report help

    Hi guys,

    I'm in need of a little help with a report I'm setting up on Access
    2000. The report shows data depending on entries on a form that has 7
    fields (Min and Max Cost, Fiscal Year, Min and Max Award Dates,
    Reviewer, Engineer). Some of these fields may have wild card
    characters (*) and some real data in them. The problem I have is when
    the user hits the Go button I need to have some text fields on the
    report show data from the input form or if a wild card character was
    used then the relevant text field on the report should display the
    message "All Reviewers" (or something to that effect.

    The form itself will stay open in the background so there shouldn't be
    any problems pulling data from it but I need some help on, a) how to
    get the data from the form to the report, and b) how to have the
    report read the wild card characters that may be contained on the
    report and substitute the relevant text in place of them.

    Many thanks for any help you can offer.

    All the best, Dean...

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    • Larry Linson
      #2
      Re: Report help

      Lacking more specific information, the following general suggestion is
      likely all I can offer: In the Open event of the Report, you can retrieve
      the entries from the Form that is still open, and use VBA code to construct
      the SQL/Query to use as the RecordSource of the Report.

      (And, if you did provide necessary detail, I'm not sure whether some might
      consider that they would be "developing your database for you for free" --
      both SQL and VBA are subjects that require some study and effort.)

      Larry Linson
      Microsoft Access MVP


      "DeanL" <deanpmlonghurs t@yahoo.comwrot e in message
      news:1181757038 .289028.17590@g 37g2000prf.goog legroups.com...
      Hi guys,
      >
      I'm in need of a little help with a report I'm setting up on Access
      2000. The report shows data depending on entries on a form that has 7
      fields (Min and Max Cost, Fiscal Year, Min and Max Award Dates,
      Reviewer, Engineer). Some of these fields may have wild card
      characters (*) and some real data in them. The problem I have is when
      the user hits the Go button I need to have some text fields on the
      report show data from the input form or if a wild card character was
      used then the relevant text field on the report should display the
      message "All Reviewers" (or something to that effect.
      >
      The form itself will stay open in the background so there shouldn't be
      any problems pulling data from it but I need some help on, a) how to
      get the data from the form to the report, and b) how to have the
      report read the wild card characters that may be contained on the
      report and substitute the relevant text in place of them.
      >
      Many thanks for any help you can offer.
      >
      All the best, Dean...
      >

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        • DeanL
          #3
          Re: Report help

          On Jun 13, 11:11 am, "Larry Linson" <boun...@localh ost.notwrote:
          Lacking more specific information, the following general suggestion is
          likely all I can offer: In the Open event of the Report, you can retrieve
          the entries from the Form that is still open, and use VBA code to construct
          the SQL/Query to use as the RecordSource of the Report.
          >
          (And, if you did provide necessary detail, I'm not sure whether some might
          consider that they would be "developing your database for you for free" --
          both SQL and VBA are subjects that require some study and effort.)
          >
          Larry Linson
          Microsoft Access MVP
          >
          "DeanL" <deanpmlonghu.. .@yahoo.comwrot e in message
          >
          news:1181757038 .289028.17590@g 37g2000prf.goog legroups.com...
          >
          Hi guys,
          >
          I'm in need of a little help with a report I'm setting up on Access
          2000. The report shows data depending on entries on a form that has 7
          fields (Min and Max Cost, Fiscal Year, Min and Max Award Dates,
          Reviewer, Engineer). Some of these fields may have wild card
          characters (*) and some real data in them. The problem I have is when
          the user hits the Go button I need to have some text fields on the
          report show data from the input form or if a wild card character was
          used then the relevant text field on the report should display the
          message "All Reviewers" (or something to that effect.
          >
          The form itself will stay open in the background so there shouldn't be
          any problems pulling data from it but I need some help on, a) how to
          get the data from the form to the report, and b) how to have the
          report read the wild card characters that may be contained on the
          report and substitute the relevant text in place of them.
          >
          Many thanks for any help you can offer.
          >
          All the best, Dean...
          Hmmm, interesting,

          I came here under the belief that this is a group dedicated to helping
          others look for solutions to problems that they have in Access/SQL.
          If I was looking for someone to "developing your database for you for
          free" then I probably wouldn't be looking for just help with a single
          problem. What I did ask was if anyone could help with a single report
          out of the 49 other reports that currently exist in that database and
          the single form out of the other 47 that exist in that database that I
          have already developed along with over 120 queries, 31 tables, 19
          modules and 12 macros. I apologise if this was too much to ask of a
          community that "prides" itself on helping other with less knowledge
          but the only reason I asked is that this task has recently been passed
          to me and there is a very imminent deadline.

          Once again, I apologise and will no longer use this forum.

          Many thanks.

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            • Larry Linson
              #4
              Re: Report help

              "DeanL" <deanpmlonghurs t@yahoo.comwrot e
              >Lacking more specific information, the following general suggestion is
              >likely all I can offer: In the Open event of the Report, you can retrieve
              >the entries from the Form that is still open, and use VBA code to
              >construct
              >the SQL/Query to use as the RecordSource of the Report.
              >>
              >(And, if you did provide necessary detail, I'm not sure whether some
              >might
              >consider that they would be "developing your database for you for
              >free" --
              >both SQL and VBA are subjects that require some study and effort.)
              Once again, I apologise and will no longer
              use this forum.
              No need to get your feelings hurt and act all snippy.

              Are you conversant in SQL and VBA? That is, I am certain, what it will take
              to address your problem. If you provide me the name of the Form, the name
              of the Controls, the name of the Fields to which the information applies,
              and how it applies, and the SQL of the basic Query, and I write you a few
              lines of code that construct the simple WHERE clause for one or two of the
              criteria, will that be meaningful to you?

              To be honest, from your question, it was not clear that it would be.

              This newsgroup IS here to provide help, and we do (a number of us have
              provided thousands of answers), and sometimes even code. If you can, in
              fact, make use of and extend the VBA code, provide the details of what you
              have and we will see what we can do to help.

              Larry Linson



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