I have a name field that displays as "Mr A Test" for every record (eg. Title initial Surname)
I need to split the full name into 3 Individual fields, Title, Initial and surname.
Is anyone able to offer any assistance? I'm fairly new to Report Builder so I have already exhausted my skill base and my searches here have so far been unsuccessful.
Thanks in advance
Can you not arrange your query to provide individual fields? This would be best.
If not, one way might be to use the split function in the expression builder eg
=Split(Fields!Fullname.Value, " ")
This results in an array of strings separated by the space. You can then access each element thus
=Split(Fields!Fullname.Value, " ").GetValue(x)
where x is a zero based index
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I have homework from Microsoft Access for school and one of the tasks was to make a search form in query, where you type for example 1. grade, 2. grade or 1st year, etc... But the field contains the name of the classes such as IT1, IT2, E1A, E3C, etc... So I could not just make a search form with [Enter Class:] or Like [Enter Class:]&"*" in the criteria column. So I was thinking, that I can use the IIF statement but it doesn't work how I imagined. I think there is a problem with the LIKE statement. I read on forums, that the IIF statement should be used in the field column but I tried the simple examples in the criteria and it worked just fine. So my question is, how I can make a search form, where I type numerous letters with one certain number in it BUT only the number will be read and returned with the same number in classes. Example: I type to search 1. grade and the value will return classes IT1, E1A, E1B, E1C, E1D. This is the line I used in the criteria column:
Like IIf([Enter the grade:]="*1*";"*1*";IIf("*2*";"*2*";IIf("*3*";"*3*";IIf("*4*";"*4*"))))
Just to qualify, I'm beginner in access and databases overall, so there is big possibility, that I'm missing something.
Thank you for help! Cheers!
Assuming input will always start with a number and you want all values containing that number, consider:
WHERE fieldname LIKE "*" & Val([Enter grade]) & "*"
Also assumes values contain only single digit.
I have 3 tables:
tbl1Artist:
ID - (PK),
ArtistName,
ArtistSKU
tbl1Medium:
ID - (PK),
MediumType,
MediumSKU
tbl1Artwork:
ID - (PK),
Artist_ID - (FK),
Medium_ID - (FK),
PieceName,
DateCompleted,
ArtWorkSKU,
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I want to create a form that has a ComboBox for choosing an Artist and a separate ComboBox for choosing the medium type. There will be a TextBox for inputting the name of the piece and a date picker (ComboBox). I need to concatenate the ArtistSKU based on the choice from the Artist with the MediumSKU based on the choice from the Medium ComboBox, and the first 5 letters of the PieceName from the TextBox.
I have done some research to try and figure out how to achieve this but with no luck. Can this be achieved inside of Access with queries or is VBA required to achieve the intended outcome?
I am not that familiar with Access and appreciate all the assistance and guidance.
Let me know if you need further information about this request.
This can be accomplished with expression in query or textbox. Use Left() function to extract first 5 characters.
Example in textbox:
=[cbxArtist] & [cbxMedium] & Left([tbxPiece],5)
If the value you want is actually in another column of combobox list, reference that column by its index. Index begins with 0.
=[cbxArtist] & [cbxMedium].Column(1) & Left([tbxPiece],5)
If you want to save calculated value to table, that would require code (macro or VBA), however, advise not to save. Saved calculated values can become 'out of sync' with raw data. This value can be calculated when needed. But if you must, then code would be like:
Me!ArtWorkSKU = Me.tbxArt
The real trick is figuring out what event to put this code into. Try the form BeforeUpdate event.
data output
I am pretty new to Webi and am having an issue creating a variable. I'm trying to check if there is more than 1 email address for each entity legacy account number and if 1 of the contact names contains "Annual Report". So when I flag each entity legacy account number for no email only the ones without a contact name that contains "Annual Report" will be pulled. In the example above only the yellow groups should be called no email. Right now all of them are being pulled into no email. I have tried using if and match as those are what I am most familiar with. Does anyone have any suggestions?
There are number of ways you could do this. I am going to give an example using two variables, but you could easily combine them into one.
Has No Email Var=If(Match(Upper([Contact EmailAddress]); "NOEMAIL*"); 1; 0)
Annual Report Contact Name Var=If(Match(Upper([Contact Name]); "ANNUAL REPORT*"); 1; 0)
Then you would apply a report filter with two components...
Has No Email Var = 1
AND
Annual Report Contact Name Var = 0
Let me explain a few things...
The purpose of the Upper function is the Match function is case sensitive. If you know your email address are always lower case then you could remove that the Upper function and have it match on "noemail*".
It is significant that I only have a asterisk ("*") at the end of the string being sought. That will only find a match where the corresponding column value starts with that string. If you want it to be true whenever the string is found anywhere in the column being searched you would be asterisks on both ends.
You could also put limiting criteria in your query filter. But here is where thing can get confusing. Within the query filter you can choose the Matches pattern operator. However, the wildcard character is different ("%" rather than "*") and you do not put double-quotes around your search text. So you would have some thing like this...
Contact EmailAddress Matches pattern noemail%
AND
Contact Name Different from pattern Annual Report%
I am sure you noticed I didn't convert the search text to uppercase. In the Query Panel Web Intelligence is case-insensitive and would likely follow the case-sensitivity of the database of the source data. All of our databases are case-insensitive so if yours is case-sensitive you may need to play around this this a bit. Or just go with the approach of creating the variables and report filters as I initially laid out.
If you want a wildcard for a single character rather than multiple characters (which is what "*" and "%" will do) you need to use a "?" within your variable definition or a "_" in your query filter.
Hope this helps,
Noel
I am working on a report that displays patient names (as groups with drilldowns) and several fields related to their visits. I have created a column in the report to display whether or not a specific value appears in the 'LocationID' column. The expression I used is
=IIF(Fields!LocationID.Value="WELL","Y","N")
I thought this was working great, it displays Y or N next to each name to let me know if 'WELL' was in their 'LocationID'. I checked several to ensure that this was going to work and discovered that there was a LocationID code of 'WHS' and since I have the rows ordered by Name and LocationID if there was a WHS visit it shows up at the top of the group and my expression is only seeing this top item. How can this expression be written differently so that it searches the entire result of each group? Depending on the date range a patient may have one visit or they may have ten. I need to check all visits that are returned. Perhaps there is a better method. Thanks in advance.
I agree with jimmy8ball that the easiest way to solve most issues like this is to push some logic back into the SQL layer.
However, if you really want to do this via SSRS functionality, then you could implement a substring search against a lookupset. Assuming you have a patient id in your dataset that is unique for each patient (I hope your group isn't on the name) then...
=Iif(InStr(Join(Lookupset(Fields!patientid.Value, Fields!patientid.Value, Fields!LocationsID.Value, "dataset"), ","), "WELL") > 0, "Y", "N")
Which says, "Search through the dataset for all rows related to my patientid, join every location into a comma deliminated string, search the string for the text "WELL" and return "Y" if it's found.
Obviously if you have locations in your dataset like "WELLY", these will become false positives and you'll have to implement some more nested logic. Try appending a value (perhaps !) to the lookupset return field so that you can search for "WELL!" or some other terminator character.
I am the beginner on the usage of MS Access.
I am going to build a program in the MS Access 2007 which can scanning some specific wordings listed in the data table from a paragraph.
For example, I want to know the occurrences of the transportation taken by the students.
(i) Therefore, I set the words "school" and "Bus" in my datatable [tableA] fields [trans].
(ii) Then, I input "I go to school by bus." in the [Input] boxes.
(iii) The result i want is that the sun of occurrences of both "school" and "Bus" can be showed in the another one textbox.
In the current situation, i just create a query [QueryA] from the [tableA] and directly use the count function in the query form. And then set the criteria as " Like [forms]![tableA]![Input] & "*" ".
However, it can just match the words in the [Input] with the final count result of the Query.
Ths a lot for providing any advice, including new direction.
I hope I understand what you're asking here, so I'll give it a stab with the information that you've provided. In your SQL window, try the following script: NOTE: You will need to change the WHERE clause to reflect your Input box(s)
SELECT Count(*) AS Expr1
FROM tableA
WHERE tableA.[trans] Like '%[Input]%;