I have a database to calculate my expenses. I record expenses with negative numbers, and salary with positive numbers. When I make the month report, and sum the values, it sums it all including salary. I want to code of Visual Basic to sum negative numbers only. I know about Filter property, but the Filter I put disappears when I close database. Can you help me, please?
You can build your report using a query or use the Where argument of the OpenReport method of the DoCmd object in versions of Access since 2003.
EDIT re comment
The easiest way to create a query is to use the query designer, viewed in SQL View, you should see something on the lines of:
SELECT Amount
FROM MyTable
WHERE Amount <=0
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I have a Report, I hope that if you choose to end time more than 7 days of the start time is prompt error.
Rather than give your users two date parameters have a single parameter to select the reporting period. You can use a SQL query to generate a list of weeks and then allow them to select which week they want to see data for. That way they can't ever select more than 7 days.
Otherwise you can short circuit the SQL by adding a DATEDIFF() between the two parameters. You could use an IF statement for this but you'll need to ensure that it returns the same columns and data types or I think SSRS will error out.
Otherwise just add the DATEDIFF() check in the WHERE clause so it will return no rows if the parameters are too far apart.
You'll also want to create a textbox on the report and have it conditionally visible if the parameters are too far apart. Something like big red text explaining to the user that they have selected a date range that is too large.
But, I think showing error messages should be avoided when you can just adjust the choices offered to the user so that they can't choose something that is invalid.
I am trying to add a few totals (sums and counts) using the wizard to an Access report. When I add them to the report and try to view the report, the report fails. Without the totals the report will display. The only thing I can figure that may be a factor is that the query being run to populate the report takes a bit to execute. The query runs a series of other queries which takes longer than normal to generate the report.
ETA: Thank you dmoody007 for your help in rooting out the problem and confirming my suspicions.
The question is a little vague. Any of these can either display errors or cause the report to not run.
Use Control Name in detail section of report for totals field (example: Name is Overtime so total of overtime should appear like =Sum([OverTime]))
Be careful not to name your controls the same. Detail control can be named Overtime. Your total of overtime should NOT be named overtime as well. Name it like Tot_OverTime otherwise you could end up with a circular reference.
If counting a text field, know that null fields are an issue. Suggest counting identity seeds or fields you know always have a value.
Make sure each control in detail you plan to sum, is formatted for numbers. If you look at the control property, format should be a number and you can assign decimal places. If not, you need to check your query or source table to ensure field is properly assigned a format.
One good tip. Add one field to total at a time. A little tedious but ensures one works before adding the next. Always recommend this to newbies until they get real comfortable making reports. Easier to debug.
Good Luck.
I've got a monthly report that is generated from data recorded each day. At the bottom of the report I have Sum, Min, Max, and Avg for certain fields.
I need to be able to also get data from the last day of the previous month to display at the top of the report, but this data cannot be included in the Sum, Min, Max, and Avg.
I'm assuming that this means I must run 2 separate queries and am unsure of how to do to this properly. I'm also curious if it might just be easier to run VBA on report Open to subtract from the earliest day in the query results and display the data that way.
What is going to be the easiest method to achieve these results?
VBA would work, but I think this is a better case for a subreport.
In the design view of the report, you should have a subreport tool. Drag and drop that, then set your source to the other query results you wish to display.
I want to know how to visually group the results of a SELECT statement.
I don't mean the GROUP BY clause in which I have the count or sum of similar values.
Let's say I have a table A with columns CustId, OrderId, Date, Amount and I do a SELECT * FROM A ORDER BY CustId, Date.
I want to see all records, but I want to kind off break with a line, or an empty row each time there is a change in CustId.
Of course I could export to Excel, but...
Thanks!
I think the practical/helpful answer is "You can't". It's not common to format your result in sql, assuming you mean like you want row breaks inside Sql Server Management Studio in the results pane. Usually you make visual presentation through separate reporting tools. Crystal Reports, Sql Server Reporting Services. The thing is, what you see in the results pane is all data. The only way to add "line break" type visual effects in the results pane is to arrange for them to be part of the data.
Maybe there are other clients that have some kind of support for that. I'm not sure what all you can do with excel by way of formatting when it's connected to a data source, and keeping the connection to the datasource.
In a report model I have some entities which have attributes which are integers (set to integer datatype) but should not be summed or aggregated in any way.
For examples ID's.
But when I create reports with the wizard, sometimes the report builder will try to sum the values even though it doesn't make sense to sum ID's.
For example let's say I have a list of cars sold in a month. In january I've sold 2 cars, one with the ID 101 and one with the ID 210. In report builder I will then - when using the wizard - get the number 311 for the summed values. I can remove it afterwards, but I would like this to not happen at all (since the end-users will be confused)
I need a way to say to the report model: This is an integer, but it is not really a number you should sum up
Well the wizard isn't perfect as you've found out. It does it's best in trying to figure out what to do. All that you can really do is remove =Sum(carID.value, "datasetname") when it automatically puts it there. Or if you don't need to sum anything at all delete the footer of the table. A workaround perhaps would be to do a Convert in your SQL to make your ID's a varchar.
If you drag an integer field onto the table it generates a sum by default. This is not always what you want - e.g. when the field is an Id or a status code that is the same for all rows shown.
Right-click the "<<Expr>>" and bring up the "Expression..." dialog. Replace "Sum" with "First" - e.g. =Sum(carID.value, "datasetname") becomes =First(carID.value, "datasetname") If the values are the same in all rows, then the first value will do. If not, there are also other functions like Last, Min, Max.
This is a bit of a kludge, but it works for me. I used my text editor to edit the RDL (XML) file and replace "Sum(" with "", then searched (carefully) for the ")" and replaced with "". I only replaced this inside of the ... Reopen in report builder without issues.