DSKillingstad,
As the other reply says, you have to write some code to look at which text
boxes have values, whether the values supplied are valid, and if so, write a
WHERE clause for your SELECT statement based on the values supplied. One
issue that will come up is whether you arbitrarily decide the logical
operator for each supplied value or whether you will provide a means for the
user to indicate what they wanted. I follow the form given to users in
Excel and my dialog box offers a combo box of plain engilsh descriptions of
boolean operators and an option group to select either "and" or "or". Once
all this is working you won't need a PARAMETER clause in your select
statement because this finished custom form will produce a SELECT statement
that returns a result set based on what the user asked for.
--
Alan Webb
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"It's not IT, it's IS"
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I'm trying to set up a parameter query based on an unbound form. This
search form has about 5 text boxes where the user can type in values
within each box and search a specific table based on the values of
those 5 text boxes. One of two of these boxes are based on date. The
obvious part (being the novice that I am) I'm stuck on is having the
query search based on 1 to 5 search values? In other words, I need the
query to search based on as little as 1 and as much as 5 different
search values from the search form.
I've tried using the "Like" operator(?) but I'm using "Between" as a
criteria for the date field and not quite sure if it's possible to use
a "Like" operator(?) with Between.
How can I get the query to work in cases where the user is not
searching based on all 5 search values.
Thank you for any help you can give me!!
dskillingstad
