Greetings,
I have a form that has several combo boxes. All of which point to a table. I have a button that opens the report, filtering the data by the user's selected record in a combo box. The problem is that I need to add a couple more combo boxes to the form, but I've run out of space (it only takes 256 characters in the where clause of a macro). So... I followed Microsoft's instruction and created a module using a docmd.
I have a module that states this:
DoCmd.OpenReport "Report1", acViewPreview, , [fieldname1]=[forms]
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by: Jag5x5Posted on 2004-12-19 at 08:45:28ID: 12862222
Where is your module?
What you need to do is on the form you need to go into design mode and go into the properties of your button and on the event tab in the on click property select [Event Procedure] then click on the ... button and this will take you to the VBA editor window.
I would make you Sub look something like this:
Private Sub Command0_Click()
Dim strlinkcrit As String
strlinkcrit = "[fieldname1]= '" & me.[combo3] & "' Or [fieldname2]='" & me.[combo4] & "'"
DoCmd.OpenReport "report1", acViewPreview, , strlilnkcrit
DoCmd.Close acForm, Me.Name
End Sub