Multiple selections

[stevenrec]

Hi all,

looking for a direction on how to accomplish something someone has
surely done before:

Have a List Box with article desciptions.
Want 3 text boxes where someone enters what they are looking for.
Dealing with chemicals, there are several ways to write the same thing
(order of words)

In box 1 "*tetra*", box 2 "*meth*" and in box 3 "*prop*"

I want it to find

1-Tetramethylpropanol (in the order above)
4-Methanolpropyltetrachlorine (same words, different locations)
2,4-Propyl-2-methoxyl-1-tetrazin (again different locations)

Reayyl need general ideas how to best get there without taking a huge
performance reduction.

Thanks

[storrboy]

So using the three text boxes like that should return anything
containing all those values, or anything containing one or more?
Depending on that question, I imagine creating a sql string that has
the three boxes Or'd or And'd together as criteria would do it. You'd
have to account for the possibility of them not being filled in. After
clicking a "Search" button perhaps, you would in code determine which
to include in the string, contrsuct the sql, apply it to the listbox
RowSource property and requery it. If you need specific help, then you
might need to provide more detail about the controls, query fields and
criteria requirements.

[Don Leverton]

Now these are just some of those "half-baked ideas" ...

If a guy ("a guy" being the original poster) was to lookat the "Advanced
Search" page at Google
http://www.google.ca/advanced_search?hl=en and design an input form in
Access similar to that ...

and then if "a guy" was to follow storrboys idea of building an sql
statement in code ...
I even have some sample code, posted in 2002, that you could use as a
starting point
http://groups.google.ca/groups?as_q=...=2007&safe=off

And if "a guy" had a datasheet style subform that used the resulting SQL as
it's RecordSource ...
then maybe "a guy" could duplicate this functionality?

Other options ???
=============
In
InStr
Like
FindRecord
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OR

"Roll your own" version of the FindRecord dialog box ... plugging search
data and search methods in from form references ???

Option Compare Database
Option Explicit

Dim vFindWhat
Dim vMatch
Dim vMatchCase As Boolean
Dim vSearchDirection
Dim vSearchAsFormatted As Boolean
Dim vOnlyCurrentField
Dim vFindFirst As Boolean

'DoCmd.FindRecord findwhat[, match][, matchcase][, search][,
searchasformatted][, onlycurrentfield][, findfirst]
'findwhat An expression that evaluates to text, a number, or a date. The
expression contains the data to search for.
'match One of the following intrinsic constants:
'acAnywhere
'acEntire (Default)
'acStart
'If you leave this argument blank, the default constant (acEntire) is
assumed.
'matchcase Use True (-1) for a case-sensitive search and False (0) for a
search that's not case-sensitive. If you leave this argument blank, the
default (False) is assumed.
'search One of the following intrinsic constants:
'acDown
'acSearchAll (Default)
'acUp
'If you leave this argument blank, the default constant (acSearchAll) is
assumed.
'searchasformatted Use True to search for data as it's formatted and False
to search for data as it's stored in the database. If you leave this
argument blank, the default (False) is assumed.
'onlycurrentfield One of the following intrinsic constants:
'acAll
'acCurrent (Default)
'If you leave this argument blank, the default constant (acCurrent) is
assumed.
'findfirst Use True to start the search at the first record. Use False to
start the search at the record following the current record. If you leave
this argument blank, the default (True) is assumed.

--
HTH, (like I said ... half-baked)
Don
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E-Mail (if you must) My*****@Telus.net

Disclaimer:
Professional PartsPerson
Amateur Database Programmer {:o)

I'm an Access97 user, so all posted code samples are also Access97- based
unless otherwise noted.

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"storrboy" <st******@sympatico.cawrote in message
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So using the three text boxes like that should return anything
containing all those values, or anything containing one or more?
Depending on that question, I imagine creating a sql string that has
the three boxes Or'd or And'd together as criteria would do it. You'd
have to account for the possibility of them not being filled in. After
clicking a "Search" button perhaps, you would in code determine which
to include in the string, contrsuct the sql, apply it to the listbox
RowSource property and requery it. If you need specific help, then you
might need to provide more detail about the controls, query fields and
criteria requirements.