[AccessD] Still on the Reporting

I have automated a number of JEs including allocations. Generally I create
the queries in Access and export the results directly to an Excel template.
Usually I do all the calculations in Access so that Excel is used simply as
a platform to upload the JE. I have a sheet in Excel that prepares the JE
(makes sure it balances, etc.) and code which generates a csv file from this
worksheet, a bat and cmd file and uploads the data to the AS400. If the
calculations are too complicated  using queries I still send the
intermediate data (usually the result of group queries) to Excel and compute
the allocations and then upload the result. I can send you the Excel sheet
with the code if you are interested.

Regards,
Jim Hale

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Williamson [mailto:Kwilliamson at rtkl.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 9:08 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] Still on the Reporting


Man...I forgot what a pain in the A@& getting reports out of Access is.

 

I asked earlier how to export a report into csv format....doesn't seem
that is likely.  I need to ultimately generate a csv format file, to
import into our sql-based application.  This is for journal entries.  I
have written a couple of reports to generate journal
entries....utilizing the different levels of grouping and summing.  A
good bit of the report is taking data, at different groupings, and
calculating percentages to apply to user-entered data (for allocating
overhead to different entities and account numbers.)  Since csv is out,
I am resigned to bring the data into excel...and then export to csv
format.

 

The problem is that, oddly, when I am looking at the data on the report
(on screen) and then hit the "Analyze It with Excel" button....the
columns come over in different order than the report.  Plus, one of the
fields is a text field = "00".  It keeps coming into Excel as = 0
(general format.)  I can't think of a way to store the values, and
export values and formulas to Excel...as Rocky suggested.  

 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

Regards,

 

Keith E. Williamson | Assist. Controller| kwilliamson at rtkl.com

RTKL Associates Inc. | 901 South Bond Street | Baltimore, Maryland
21231-3305

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