Thanx for your post. I understand the logic of how to make the
conditional formatting work for me from your example. That will work
great. However, what I don't understand how to do is to run a Top 5 on
a table or query where the data by week is all in the same record
rather than in individual records. Below is the query that I'm working
off of:
SELECT Top25_2003.Store, Top25_2003.Description, Top25_2003.Sales,
Top25_2003.[1], Top25_2003.[2], Top25_2003.[3], Top25_2003.[4],
Top25_2003.[5], Top25_2003.[6], Top25_2003.[7], Top25_2003.[8],
Top25_2003.[9], Top25_2003.[10], Top25_2003.[11], Top25_2003.[12],
Top25_2003.[13], Top25_2003.[14], Top25_2003.[15], Top25_2003.[16],
Top25_2003.[17], Top25_2003.[18], Top25_2003.[19], Top25_2003.[20],
Top25_2003.[21], Top25_2003.[22], Top25_2003.[23], Top25_2003.[24],
Top25_2003.[25], Top25_2003.[26], Top25_2003.[27], Top25_2003.[28],
Top25_2003.[29], Top25_2003.[30]
FROM Top25_2003
WHERE (((Top25_2003.Store)=getstore()))
ORDER BY Top25_2003.Store, Top25_2003.Sales DESC;
What I'm wanting to do is within the same record, identify the top 5
weeks of the 30 weeks displayed in one record. I understand how to use
the top values if the weeks were in individual records (vertically in
a table). But I do not know how to identify the same type of top value
logic with in a series of columns in the same record.
In my case, I want to highlight the the five highest sales weeks in
the series of columns Top25_2003.[1] through Top25_2003.[30]. If you
have any ideas on how to do that, I would be very appreciative to
receive such help.
Chuck
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In the report's OnOpen procedure I'd run a separate query, on the same
data, that used the TOP 5 statement in the SELECT clause & ORDER BY
<numeric value field> DESC. I'd save the "bottom" of the top 5 values
in a report variable and in the conditional formatting function I'd
compare the saved value to the current record value:
If current_value >= saved_value Then highlight record
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Chuck Reed wrote:
I am working on a sales report where I show weekly sales by category
for each of the 52 weeks in the year. Each record in my table/report
has the 52 weeks of sales in it. I want to highlight to top five weeks
of sales for each category by using a conditonal format to highlight
these top five weeks. I've been trying to find a way to do this but
have not been sucessful looking through many books on Access and in
reading the user groups. If anyone has any suggestions, I would be
very happy to hear them.
