Creating Reporting Form

as an FYI this is a screen shot of what I"m getting.... when I click the drop down arror initially - I get the following error. Like it doesn't want my report name.... I know it's there, I can view the report.

*sigh*

This is just a word screenshot....
 

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is it working yet - no

BUT getting closer - my combo box will list all reports that are in the current project BUT it will not let me click and then put the text into the combo box - I get the list, but I cannot make it populate the actual combo box... any suggestions?

cfp
 
alright - it is official

call me stupid :-)

I got it to work - my form was set to not allow edits LOL so of course it can't allow anyone to update a combo box - it's working great!

Thank you all for your time, energy and patience and for not banning me for stupid question...

cfp
 
I have to say, I really enjoyed reading this post. You two made me laugh. I am planning to do the same sort of thing. I am working on stream lining reports for my application, so that I don't have a huge maze of menus.

I will have to have a report menu with one button for detailed reports, and one for summary(statistic) reports.

I had a couple of questions about applying this process to my application, and I was hoping one (or both!) might be able to help answer them for me.

I am thinking that this could work for the statistic report menu. My database is normalized, so I can't use their names in the combos. Is there a way to give them 'nice names'?

This has another part to it too. My application is for people who apply for a job at my work. Because of that I have summary report for candidates and for hires. parallel reports, but one for (ie) all candidates by the office that they applied to. Then I would have one for all hired candidates (were hired) by the office that they were hired to. Same with department, and many others.

I would like to do somethnig like what you have and it would end up looking like this:

Form would have one combo to choose candidates or hires. A second combo would be to choose the category for the desired numbers. There is a master statistic report that will be 1 for candidates and 1 for hires. I do not think the user will ever want to print all reports.

Oh that reminds me. I only want to set to preview reports. they will print if they really need to.

Thanks. :D
 
I got this in my inbox that someone replied and I couldn't think for the life of me the last time I posted was... so I popped over to read...

and oh my - was I a bit dense!

*laughing hard*

and want to know something even better - I don't use this form at all LOL

allllll that..... HAHAHAHA
 
:( I'm sorry, but that wasn't exactly the response that I was hoping for. Should I repost this question new? I was thnking that the purpose of the posts is to stick to related, but if this is a dead issue in this post, I would be happy to reword my question in the hopes of getting some assistance and advice.

Thank you.
 

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