Access Report Control ??

[meyvn77]

I have a project using crash data where I would like a form to promp
the user for 1 of the 8 stock report from a pulldown box with options A

through E and a 'From' date and 'To' date. The options would be like
crashes involving Fatalities, or Injury crashes, or Pedestrian
crash...ect.. So each 1 of the 8 stock reports could have many
variables.. I would like to know if I can use the control source or how

I would go about programmicly in VBA setting the report source...
like....
Report.source =
(Select * from Events
where Events.Date between(" & Date1 & "," & Date2 & ")
AND INJURY(or some other field) = " & Injury & ")
Can you do this? Any help or a link to some documentation would be
great.....
Chuck

[pietlinden]

Chuck,

if you have to gather several criteria for your report, the easiest way
is to use an unbound form. just drop the combobox onto your form and
specify the recordsource. (The wizard should take care of most of it).
Then add textboxes for the from and to dates.

Once you have all your criteria collected, you can create your filter.
(where clause) for your report. So in your code you would test your
controls for non-null values and then add them to your filter string.

like ...

If not isnull(Me.StartDate) and not isnull(Me.EndDate) then
strDateFilter="Between " & Me.StartDate & "and " & Me.EndDate
end if

then you'd do that for all of your criteria and then AND them together,
so you'd end up with a single filter. Then you can just pass that
filter in the open event of the report

DoCmd.OpenReport "MyReport", ,, strFilter

documentation... umm... see OpenReport in the help. Or
www.mvps.org/access - there's a bunch of stuff there on doing this
kind of thing.