[AccessD] Report data changes when printing

[Ryan W]

An interesting little thing I caught the other day...  we never experienced
this before because we always used overlapping window interfaces and it
made it harder to 'multitask' that way.

I have a form that builds two temp tables based on some criteria you feed
it. Then the user selects 4 targets to report from the list.


The report has 4 dynamic fields that get their caption on the Report_Open
event because the data is pivoted across 4 data points and as far as I know
the only way to make the dynamically named column headers is to loop
through the a recordset and set the "Caption" property each of the 4 text
boxes at that time.

When you hit the print report button the report comes up in print preview
mode. Ok everything is good at that point.

But....

If the user goes back to the FORM tab and unchecks the 4 selected options
(which make the 4 textbox captions) and selects 4 DIFFERENT ones and
presses the "print" button again, from a VISUAL standpoint nothing has
changed.. it just simply re-focuses the report that was left open.

Until..... the user prints it.  Then the pivot/transform data has changed
but the header has not because that was done on Report_Open time.

So, I guess really my question or remark is:

Why does MS Access "Requery" the report recordset when printing, and not
simply print what is on screen?


I've already come up with a number of fixes for this:

1) If the report loses focus, close it.
2) If somehow that doesn't work, next time the user presses the print
button if the report .IsLoaded, close it.


So all of this brings up an interesting point that I assume could also
cause grief. If for some reason one user had a report up but neglected to
print it and another user changed some of the data that the report is using
BEFORE the original user hit print it may change the report data. However
unlikely that is.