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How to write a macro to open a report that relies on a query?

Hey all,

Okay, so here's what's going on. I have a customer who wants me to push the reports generated by MS Access to his corporate website on demand. I have most of this problem solved (by using the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Access library from inside a WCF Server and connecting to the server in an ASPX web application). There is one last piece that I can't figure out and I think I can solve it all from inside MS Access with a (small?) tweak to the customers mdb file.
What he has done is created a report which gets its data from the results of a query. The query requires the user to select a date/time range, grabs all of the records from the multiple tables in that range and displays them in a report. Since the MS Interop library allows me to run queries, open reports, open forms or tables and the like, but doesn't allow me to actually interact with any of them, I can't just open the report, pass the date/time range selection and then OutputToHTML. Again, this is because I can't pass the date/time range from the Interop library call.
So my solution was to create a series of macros in the mdb file. For each report, there would be an 'Echo_Today_[reportname]' macro, an 'Echo_Yesterday_[reportname]' macro, etc. and the user would simply be restricted to choosing predetermined date ranges. So what I need is to write a VBA Macro that will open the report, supply the associated query with a date range and then output the HTML. I can do all of that except run the query.
How do I write a macro that will let me supply a variable parameter to a query?

TIA,
Jason

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