[AccessD]

Frank Tanner III pctech at mybellybutton.com
Wed Jul 30 13:16:39 CDT 2003


Thank you.  I will give both of these suggestions a
shot.  They may be a bit over my head though...hehehe 
I'm a network engineer by trade, not a
developer...hehe  I'm just trying to create some tools
to make my life a bit simpler.

--- "Wortz, Charles" <CWortz at tea.state.tx.us> wrote:
> Frank,
> 
> I solved a similar problem by building a search form
> where the user
> selected one or more of the variables they wanted to
> search on, the
> appropriate operator (=, >, IsNull, Between, etc.)
> for each variable,
> and the value(s) to use with that variable.  When
> they clicked on the OK
> button, I then edited the selections and built the
> sql to use as the
> recordsource of the form they wanted to filter.  It
> is a little work to
> build such a search form, but once you have one it
> is easy to adapt to
> the next form that needs a variable filter.
> 
> Charles Wortz
> Software Development Division
> Texas Education Agency
> 1701 N. Congress Ave
> Austin, TX 78701-1494
> 512-463-9493
> CWortz at tea.state.tx.us
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marcus, Scott (GEAE, Contractor)
> [mailto:scott.marcus at ae.ge.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday 2003 Jul 30 10:33
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem
> solving'
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] 
> 
> In that case, you need to set the 'filter on'
> property of the report to
> true. Next, set the filter to the where condition of
> the SQL statement
> that you would have if you knew all the criteria up
> front without the
> word 'where'.
> 
> for example...
> Me.FilterOn = true
> Me.Filter = "[field] = 'something' and [filed2] =
> 'something else'"
> 
> Scott
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Tanner III
> [mailto:pctech at mybellybutton.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 11:23 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] 
> 
> 
> I thought of that.  My biggest problems is that It
> may
> need to be based on more than one of the filter
> queries at a time.  Like I might want to filter out
> extension to extension calls AND local calls so that
> they're not displayed on the report.
> 
> --- "Marcus, Scott (GEAE, Contractor)"
> <scott.marcus at ae.ge.com> wrote:
> > In the Open event of the report, determine which
> > query the report needs to
> > be based on(the form check boxes) and change the
> > recordsource via code.
> > 
> > Scott
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Frank Tanner III
> > [mailto:pctech at mybellybutton.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 10:57 AM
> > To: Database Advisors
> > Subject: [AccessD]
> > 
> > 
> > Ok.  Stupid question time....hehehe
> > 
> > I have a report that I want to run.  The report,
> of
> > course, is based on a query (it calls the query as
> > it's record source).  I have other queries that I
> am
> > using as "filters".  I want to activate these
> > filters
> > based on check/uncheck boxes.
> > 
> > I have the check/uncheck boxes on a form.  The
> form
> > calls the report.  How can I get the report to
> > filter
> > based on the "filter" queries I have written based
> > on
> > whether or not a checkbox is checked or unchecked
> in
> > the main form?
> > 
> > Thank you for your assistance. 
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