I am building a report in MS Access based on a crosstab query. Therefore I do not know the number of columns or column headers in advance. I have created a template report with one column. In VBA I make a copy of this template report. Using the report recordsource, I then add labels to the report header and textboxes to the report detail and give the report headers the correct name. I set the label and textbox properties using the settings of the label and textbox from the template report. All this is done in VBA.
Is there a better way to create a report with dynamic number of columns? If not, using VBA, is it possible to add columns to the report grid and snap the labels and textboxes that were dynamically created to the grid.
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I am working on Telerik Reporting and I need to hide/show Extension column base on the users input. Can I do this using a filter or report parameter?
The table column is just a virtual grouping instance of all the report items in the cells of that column (textboxes, panels, etc.). Therefore you can just add a ConditionalFormatting rules to the textboxes in that column, setting their visibility according to a report parameter value.
I need to add a filter to a Report, that within anotherreport, the filtered results appear in the drilldown report.
For example: An .rdl file displays the first report, in that report a link can be clicked to access another report (.rdl) file. The report that displays after clicking link should be filtered by option selected from the first report(.rdl).
How could this be done? My thought that two datasets in each report could provide the information for the filter, however the filter expression is not valid this way...? I know this may not be the best way to do this.
So creating a drilldown report would be more acceptable. Creating one report and including a dataset with it by setting parameters to be called in the drilldown.
Does there need to be two datasets for each report to do this? I was assuming that the filter expression be written to do this: Field!.name.value AND Field!.name.value, etc to the whatever value I need to compare to or by.
Could this be a shared dataset to do this?
I was able to solve or partially solve this. I created a new report, with a query with the necessary columns that I needed in report 2. The drillthrough report(report 2) is linked from a textbox from a report allowing a user to view the information they need by clicking a link that displays the new report(passing the parameters from report 2 to the new report). If anyone has trouble with this, the simplest way would be to create one report and pass parameters to report two with parameters created from whatever query you want to use that has the values you want as columns in the report.
I have a task to create ad-hoc report generator engine in MS Access where user can select table, fields and criteria, and report will be dynamically generated based on the given parameters.
I create Access form as the interface for user to input the required parameters (using ComboBox and ListBox to select table and field(s)). All tables are stored in Access database. I have successfuly bind list of tables and fields to the ComboBox and ListBox.
My questions is..
How do I generate dynamic report layout based on number of fields selected in the form? Let say if the user choose more fields, the field width will be smaller than if he choose less number of fields (I want the report fit Form/Report View).
FYI, I am working MS Access 2010.
There is a property called Can Grow just select the field you want to grow and change it to yes. Keep in mind however that the CanGrow property does not apply to a form or report page header and page footer sections.
I have to generate a report for a list page, than means from the listpage, I will create a button that call the report.
In the report I will have the same data that I have in the form.
You have several easy options:
Use Ctrl-p from the form will give you easy access to the table fields (element.print() by code)
Use Excel, mark records and press the excel button, then print from Excel.
Change the query for the SSRS report
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I've been working on a custom timesheet report that uses multiple datasets (8 to be exact). Each dataset selects the data by the same ID field which is currently input as a parameter. It works great like that. But now I'm told that the end user wants to input a date and have all the reports printed out for that date rather than having to enter in an ID each time. Each timesheet is 2 - 3 pages. It is intended to emulate a form and contains some data but a lot of blank areas to allow the field people to write in any changes that have occurred.
My question, is this: what is the best way of accommodating the new requirement? Should I build it all as one big dataset and use the date as a parameter?
Should I create a wrapper report that would prompt for the date and then use the existing report as sub report? Would that even work?
Is there any way I can just create a new date parameter and put that ahead of the ID parameter and get them to print out like that? I've got a few hidden parameter fields on the body that get used in the page header and are used to link some of the datasets.
any help is appreciated.
Easiest way to achieve this is indeed by creating a wrapper report with the date parameter. The data set in this report will then fetch all items (with ID) that match the query by the user. The report can then have a list for that dataset, with the original report as a subreport. If you pass the ID parameter from the dataset to the subreport you wouldn't need to change hardly anything in the original report.
Two things to watch out for:
the Report Header and Footer in a subreport are not rendered - these are only rendered for the wrapper report
you may need to tweak your page breaks in the subreport and on the new list in the wrapper report so each new form starts on a fresh page