[dba-SQLServer] Continuous Forms and Filters

David,

I have a 2010 FE linked to a 2008 SQL BE living on the internet using ODBC.
The subforms are fed by dynamic recordsets that I populate on the selection
of the parent record and I seem to have the 'Text Filters' available on
right-click of the fields in it. I just tried a 'Contains' filter and it
worked fine. Caveat is I am not using a stored procedure as such -- just a
recordset call to a SQL view that I am filtering by Parent ID in the SQL
statement for the subform RecordSource.

Have you double-checked your AllowFilters property of the subform?

Gary Miller


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[mailto:dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of David
Emerson
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 3:56 PM
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Subject: Re: [dba-SQLServer] Continuous Forms and Filters

Jim,

General filtering when getting a recordset is not a problem.  What I am
referring to is when a user right clicks in a continuous form the shortcut
menu has an item called "Text Filters" as well as a number of predictive
filters based on the current field.  These work with an Access BE but
searches on the web indicate that they don't with an SQL BE.  Just trying to
confirm what others might have done to get around this apparent limitation.

David

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[mailto:dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim
Lawrence
Sent: Friday, 25 April 2014 10:48 a.m.
To: Discussion concerning MS SQL Server
Subject: Re: [dba-SQLServer] Continuous Forms and Filters

Hi David:

Once a data set can be placed in a recordset then filtering should be not
problem. I am not that current on the latest and greatest MS SQL DB features
but to my understanding, the fastest way to extract data is through a
query...or am I not understanding your question?

Jim 

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Sent: Thursday, 24 April, 2014 1:18:00 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-SQLServer] Continuous Forms and Filters

Hi Jim,

Just to confirm, do I take from your reply that the built in filtering
doesn't work with an SQL BE?

Regards

David Emerson
Dalyn Software Ltd
Wellington, New Zealand



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim
Lawrence
Sent: Friday, 25 April 2014 7:52 a.m.
To: Discussion concerning MS SQL Server
Subject: Re: [dba-SQLServer] Continuous Forms and Filters

Hi David:

This is not a difficult process but it does take a bit of coding to
accomplish and I posted code samples on that effort earlier this year. IMHO
it would be unwise to have a synchronized connection to a SQL BE an
asynchronous connect model would be my recommendation. If you would like the
posts, just ask and I will see if they easy to find.

Jim  

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Emerson" <newsgrps at dalyn.co.nz>
To: "AccessDSQL" <dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, 24 April, 2014 12:27:57 PM
Subject: [dba-SQLServer] Continuous Forms and Filters

Hi Listers.
 

Access 2010 with SQL2008 BE.  I have a continuous form of client details. I
already have a search combobox for finding a client name but sometimes I may
want to filter for all clients in a city, or in a street. With an Access BE
I can right click on the rows in a continuous form and use the filter
function to filter based on a number of tests. This doesn't seem to work
with an SQL BE.. 

Does anyone have a solution for this? My only thought is to have a line of
filter controls at the top of the screen and pass these through to the
stored procedure but this seems clunky.
 

Regards

David Emerson
Dalyn Software Ltd
Wellington, New Zealand


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