Microsoft Access Dsum Single Criteria Not Working - ms-access

i am working on Access project. Dsum is working fine without Criteria but when i insert criteria. it simply not working.
Me.usd = DSum("[Amount]", "Commission", "Currency= usd")
"me.usd" is TextBox And
"Amount" is column and "
Commission" is Table
"Currency" is where to look for currency type
if i exclude criteria with "" it gives total amount sum but it returns nothing with criteria. can anyone correct where i am wrong.

Strings should be enclosed with single quotes in where clause
Me.usd = DSum("[Amount]", "Commission", "[Currency]= 'usd'")
If the currency field is number use below, no need for quotes. Assuming USD = 1 in your case
Me.usd = DSum("[Amount]", "Commission", "[Currency]= 1")

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Comparing multiple fields in two datasets to return a 3rd value

I am in report builder and I have my primary dataset that is from a SQL database, I also then created a second dataset (enter data). I need to compare 2 fields from each dataset to retrieve the correct value from the 2nd dataset and populate a column on my report. I have tried the IIF statements and Lookup statements but I keep getting the error "report item expressions can only refer to fields within the current dataset".
I have a attached a screenshot of what I am trying to do....
The IIF statement I tried to use.. If Acctnum and prodid = each other return IncodeNumber
=IIF((Fields!AcctNum.Value=Fields!AcctNum.Value, "IncodeAccount") AND
(Fields!ProdId.Value =Fields!ProdId.Value, "IncodeAccount")),(Fields!IncodeNumber.Value, "IncodeAccount"),"True")
See code in my problem.
You need to use LOOKUP(). The problem with LOOKUP() is that is can only compare a single value from each dataset. However, we can easily get around this issue by concatenating the two values you need to compare.
Note: This assumes the expression will be in a tablix that is bound to your first dataset and that IncodeAccount is your second dataset - the values you want to lookup. If this is not the case just adjust the expression accordingly
So for you, you probably need to do something like this..
=LOOKUP(
Fields!AcctNum.Value & "||" & Fields!ProdId.Value,
Fields!AcctNum.Value & "||" & Fields!ProdId.Value,
Fields!IncodeNumber.Value,
"IncodeAccount"
)
I've used two pipe symbols to join the values to avoid incorrect matches being found. e.g. Account 123 and product ID 4567 would incorrectly match to Account 1234 and product ID 567 as they would both be 1234567 when joined. By using the || the match would be 123||4567 and 1234||567 respectively.
You may need to convert the values to string using CStr()
Alternative approach
If you are going to do this 'join' multiple times in the same dataset then you could add a calculated column to the dataset that concatenates the two columns. Then you can use this single field in the lookup which will make things a little simpler.
Or, you could do this concatenation in a database view which would make things even easier.

how to capture grater than symbol parameter to build date field comparison in where clause for SSRS parameter report

new to SSRS report design. Although, I've used CASE statement before but not sure how to utilize in a condition where SSRS report needs to two parameters ( parameter symbol (>,<,=,%) and parameter date ) pull data from a dataset.
I'm wondering if CASE statement can be used to achieve this need?
Or any other suggestion that would work for this condition, will be greatly appreciated.
PS: I've not come across such example so far
I'm assuming that you want to parameterise the actual operator so the user can for example, choose < 1000 or > 50 etc...
If that's correct then you can do this as follows.
Assume we have two parameters
pOperator which has values of ">", "<" and "=" (note for the = option you will need to specify this as an expression ="=" or SSRS will think you have a blank expression.
pMyValue which will allow the users to type a number in
What you need to do is change the dataset query to be an expression, so something like this.
="SELECT Employee, Salary FROM myTable
WHERE Salary " & Parameters!pOperator.Value & " " & Parameters!pMyValue.Value
If you had used > and 30000 as your parameter values then this would return
SELECT Employee, Salary FROM myTable
WHERE Salary > 1000
You could also have a single parameter where the user can type the whole ">=15000" and then just replace the two parameters above with a single one.

IIF query expression using Like "*" for the True condition

I have a database which tracks employee QA. I'd like to be able to search by a single Staff Member, a whole team, or a Unit. I have three controls that correspond to those fields and only one can ever have a value at once. In my quesry I'd like to have threee expressions that will limit my results by one of those three fields. I'm adding just one to start and I've hit a problem.
I found this https://www.acuitytraining.co.uk/microsoft-training-courses/access/if-statements/ which seems to do what I want. Here is the code I'm trying.
IIf(IsNull([Forms]![MainMenu]![btnManagersMenu].[Form]![cmbStaffSelect]),
[UserLogin] Like "*",[UserLogin]=[Forms]![MainMenu]![btnManagersMenu].
[Form]![cmbStaffSelect])
Which works fine if the control has a value. (condition is false) If the dropdown has no value (condition is true) I get zero results. I suspect the problem lies with the Like "*" on my UserLogin field. Here is my query wizard and the buildler wizard for the IIF expression
Can anyone see why I'm not getting any results for the dropdown control being empty. To my thinking this should give me an unfiltered list of results. I have double checked my data and there are 137 records that should appear if I'm not limited by the staff selection.
The short version of this is if cmbStaffSelect has a value I want my records limited by that value. If cmbStaffSelect is blank I want to get all records.
Keep in mind that the iif function will always evaluate both the then and else arguments, before returning the appropriate value depending on the value returned when evaluating the supplied test expression.
As such, if either the then or else arguments have the potential to error when evaluated (regardless of the result of the evaluation of the test expression), then the iif expression has the potential to error.
As an alternative, you could use the Nz function to achieve the same result:
[UserLogin] LIKE Nz([Forms]![MainMenu]![btnManagersMenu].[Form]![cmbStaffSelect],"*")
Perhaps your IsNull([Forms]![MainMenu]![btnManagersMenu].[Form]![cmbStaffSelect]) is always returning false because cmbStaffSelect might be equal to empty string?
Try something like this:
IIf(Trim([Forms]![MainMenu]![btnManagersMenu].[Form]![cmbStaffSelect] & "") = "",
[UserLogin] Like "*",[UserLogin]=[Forms]![MainMenu]![btnManagersMenu].
[Form]![cmbStaffSelect])
This checks to see if the cmbStaffSelect is "" ... if cmbStaffSelect is null - it converts it to "" by appending an "" to the null value.
I believe your hunch is exactly correct. If you want your query result to return the * symbol for the UserLogin field; then alter your IIF statement to be: [UserLogin] = "*"

MS Access, Use Expression Builder to Compare Field in One Table to DLookup in Another Table

I'm trying to make a MS Access report, where I use a text box to display a field value, then have another text box indicating if the first value is higher or lower than an entry in a separate table.
The report has a record source of "Table 1", and a textbox named "txt_Value1" which displays the number in Field: "Value1". I have a second table, "Customer_Criteria" which has a field "PassValue" that I want to compare against. My expression builder statement is:
IIf([txt_Value1]<(DLookUp("[PassValue]","[Customer_Criteria]","[Customer] = 'ABC'")),"TRUE","FALSE")
This statement always returns false, regardless of what the correct logical result is.
I've tested it, writing:
IIf(1<(DLookUp("[PassValue]","[Customer_Criteria]","[Customer] = 'ABC'")),"TRUE","FALSE")
And I get the correct results. Also, if I write:
IIf([txt_Value1]< 1,"TRUE","FALSE")
I get the correct results. What am I missing to compare the textbox value vs. the Dlookup?
As I understand, both fields are numeric. Access may consider those fields as text, so for correct comparing use type conversion.
Try this:
IIf(CLng(Nz([txt_Value1],0))< _
CLng(Nz(DLookUp("[PassValue]","[Customer_Criteria]","[Customer] = 'ABC'"),0)), _
"TRUE","FALSE")
Nz required if fields may contain NULL values, in this case type conversion function will return error.

SSRS Report - Dataset Filters

I've written a report for SSRS and Im using dataset filters with expressions to filter the report info. I seem to either have this expression wrong or the filter is not working correctly:
=IIf(Parameters!DoctorID.Value = "All" Or Parameters!DoctorID.Value = "", "*", Parameters!DoctorID.Value)
What I want to accomplish with the above code is if DoctorID = ALL or "" (blank) then I want to omit it from the filters so I return information for all doctors. However, whenever the value of DoctorID = ALL, I'm returning no rows what so ever. It should be the case that i'm getting ALL rows since DoctorID is not a specific number.
Does the "*" (star) not denote an omitting of that filter? Am I doing something wrong here?
Thanks!
The filter formula you provide is only half the equation: what is the operator and what are you comparing this to? And yes, I haven't seen SSRS use asterisk as a wildcard.
Consider putting your filter into the query for the dataset. The SQL WHERE clause can get pretty powerful. I would write your filter into the query as
...
WHERE
#DoctorID = 'All' OR #DoctorID = ''
OR #DoctorID = myTable.DoctorID
This will also let you move to a multiple value parameter pretty easily.