[AccessD] Access Report - One field for one Customer is Missing

Rocky Smolin rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Fri Oct 11 19:16:50 CDT 2013


Compact on exit works.  But there is that annoying lag between exiting and
the app actually closing.  

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 5:13 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access Report - One field for one Customer is Missing

But be aware of bloat and come up with some way to handle it.

On 11 Oct 2013 at 16:55, Rocky Smolin wrote:

> I've used that work-around myself when faced with a report that's 
> going to require overly complex queries.  Not your case exactly but I 
> got the idea of the temp table years ago from this list.  I like the 
> temp table approach because you can lay out the table with exactly the 
> fields you want on the report and populate t with data instead of FKs. 
> Use a bit of code to open a recordset to get the basic data - loop 
> through it filling the target table and walla!  Report.
> 
> Rocky
> 
> 
> 
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Brad Marks
> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 12:50 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access Report - One field for one Customer is 
> Missing
> 
> Rocky, David, Gary, Doug,
> 
> Thanks for all of your ideas/insights.
> 
> I used every idea as I tried to debug this problem.
> 
> One thing that I failed to mention earlier is that the underlying 
> query is pulling data from several other queries.  In other words it 
> is complex.  It appears that when the complexity of the queries is 
> combined with the report (which has sorts and filters), the Access gods
are angered.
> 
> I changed the report's query to be a "Make Table" query and then I 
> changed the report's data source to this new temporary table.  This 
> fixed the problem.
> 
> I don't fully understand what Access does behind the scenes, but 
> apparently the underlying queries are somehow combined with the report 
> filters and in some cases that does not work properly.
> 
> I really appreciate all of the help.  I am the "Lone Ranger IT person"
> with no one else onsite to consult with.  Your assistance on this 
> issue and on many prior problems has been outstanding.
> 
> Thanks again,
> Brad
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Brad Marks
> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 11:23 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: [AccessD] Access Report - One field for one Customer is 
> Missing
> 
> All,
> 
> This is one of the strangest things that I have seen for a long time.
> 
> We have a Sales Order report that has been used for several months.
> Recently one of our users pointed out that the Customer Name was not 
> being shown for a specific customer.
> 
> There are 7 fields shown for each customer on the report.  All of the 
> fields are shown for all customers, except one.  For this one 
> customer, only 6 of the 7 fields are shown.
> 
> Here is where things get really interesting...
> 
> When I look at the data from the underlying query, I can see all 7 
> fields for this customer.
> 
> In other words, all of the data is visible in the Report's data source 
> (underlying query), but not all of the data is being shown on the report.
> 
> Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Brad
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