Alternate sorting for Access report

[nn0410]

I have a report whose record source is a query. The query includes an
ORDER BY clause that sorts on a particular set of columns. I would
like to be able to run the same report with the same input data, sorted
on a different set of columns. Aside from copying (^C, ^V) the report
and changing the Record Source property in the new copy to another
query, is there an elegant way to accomplish this?

Thanks

Rick

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Look at QueryDef in the Help file. You use a single query but change the
query's SQL programatically.

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I have a report whose record source is a query. The query includes an
ORDER BY clause that sorts on a particular set of columns. I would
like to be able to run the same report with the same input data, sorted
on a different set of columns. Aside from copying (^C, ^V) the report
and changing the Record Source property in the new copy to another
query, is there an elegant way to accomplish this?

Thanks

Rick

[RoyVidar]

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I have a report whose record source is a query. The query includes
an ORDER BY clause that sorts on a particular set of columns. I
would like to be able to run the same report with the same input
data, sorted on a different set of columns. Aside from copying (^C,
^V) the report and changing the Record Source property in the new
copy to another query, is there an elegant way to accomplish this?

Thanks

Rick

My opinion is to never rely on other methods of sorting than the
sorting
and grouping thingie within the report itself. Any sorting and qrouping
in the recorsource, is usually ignored.

Check this article at Allen Brownes, for how to manipulate it
programatically
http://allenbrowne.com/ser-33.html

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[Keith Wilby]

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Look at QueryDef in the Help file. You use a single query but change the
query's SQL programatically.

<sigh>

Yet another wrong answer just to plug your "resource". A report's sorting
and grouping will always override that of the bound data source. The
correct answer is to code the grouping and sorting in the report's open
event.

Keith.
www.keithwilby.com

[John Marshall, MVP]

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Look at QueryDef in the Help file. You use a single query but change the
query's SQL programatically.

This is a useful contribution? Why not tell him to look at the Access
documentation?

John... Visio MVP

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Look at QueryDef in the Help file. You use a single query but change the
query's SQL programatically.
This is not a bright answer.
With reports you can't rely on Access using the Order By from the recordset ...
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[nn0410]

Thank you all for your quick and insightful replies. The app in its
present state has a form that kicks off the report. On the form I'd
like to have two command buttons, each invoking the same report but
each with a different sorting scheme. If I ditch the query and use the
Order By property of the report instead, somehow the form must advise
the report how to configure that property to sort in one of the two
schemes. I figure that would happen in VBA code, but how exactly?
Should the form directly manipulate the property object in the report?
Or should the Open event in the report call back to the form to get the
sorting specs?

Thanks again

[Arno R]

> Should the form directly manipulate the property object in the report?

Or should the Open event in the report call back to the form to get the
sorting specs?

The latter. The report needs to check a value on your form.
If you *need* the two command buttons on your form, you can set a (hidden) value in an optiongroup or similar.
You could also only use an optiongroup next to a single command button.

Check out the link that Roy gave you in this thread.
http://allenbrowne.com/ser-33.html

Arno R

[David W. Fenton]

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Thank you all for your quick and insightful replies. The app in
its present state has a form that kicks off the report. On the
form I'd like to have two command buttons, each invoking the same
report but each with a different sorting scheme. If I ditch the
query and use the Order By property of the report instead, somehow
the form must advise the report how to configure that property to
sort in one of the two schemes. I figure that would happen in VBA
code, but how exactly? Should the form directly manipulate the
property object in the report? Or should the Open event in the
report call back to the form to get the sorting specs?

The latter is the way to do it. Open the form as a dialog in the
report's OnOpen event.

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