I am trying to send faxes in an Access application. I have various reports that I want to send out to different clients. However, in order for my fax program to work it needs to a fax a file, it can't fax a report. So the sollution is to loop thru my clients and output my reports to a .snp file.
I'm using the following code to do so:
DoCmd.OutputTo acOutputReport, "rptFax2", acFormatSNP, strFile, False
However this DoCmd.OutputTo function doesn't allow me to apply a filter the report, which is neccessary so that I only send a client their data.
Does anyone know how to apply filter in this situation, or another way of outputting a file that allows filters?
Thanks
Ben
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Yes, that makes sense, I was thinking of doing something like that. I was hoping however that there may be a cleaner way of doing this. I plan on making lots of different reports faxable and I don't really want to have to make 2 copies of each one (one with no filter which I can use for display, and one that has this dynamically changing filter).
No, it's selecting from the (not limited) report query that's used for the preview.
You'll only have to define one additional "qryDummy" that can be used to store the (temp) created query string of all reports.
So the full code would look like:
dim qd as DAO.querydef
set qd = currentdb.querydefs("qryDu
qd.SQL = "select * from qryReport2 where customerid=" & Me.CustomerID
'==> Here execute the DoCmd.OutputTo
Clearer ?
Nic;o)
Hmm, have to change the approach when you want no extra query.
We will have to store the query content before execution, use it and restore it afterwards like:
dim qd as DAO.querydef
dim strSQLsave as String
set qd = currentdb.querydefs("qryRe
strSQLsave = qd.SQL
' the Replace is needed to get rid of the ; query termination character
qd.SQL = "select * from (" & replace(strSQLsave,";","")
'==> Here execute the DoCmd.OutputTo
qd.SQL = strSQLsave
Thus the change is undone.
Nic;o)
Hello again, Nico, glad you're back. I hope I'm not ruining your comeback with this alternate solution... (^v°)
DoCmd.OpenReport "rptFax2", acViewPreview, WhereCondition:="ClientID=
DoCmd.OutputTo acOutputReport, , acFormatSNP, strFile, False
DoCmd.Close acReport, "rptFax2"
If the report is already open, OutputTo doesn't reopen it, and just uses the current instance (in this case the active report, since I didn't repeat the report name).
Cheers!
(°v°)
> will Access use the last opened report ?
Yes. When the name of the report is left blank, it seems that Screen.ActiveReport is used. But why take chances: let's just repeat the report name, so it can even be opened in a hidden window to avoid flicker.
DoCmd.OpenReport "rptFax2", acViewPreview, , "ClientID=1", acHidden
DoCmd.OutputTo acOutputReport, "rptFax2", acFormatSNP, strFile, False
DoCmd.Close acReport, "rptFax2"
(°v°)
Looks nice, and the acHidden will solve the only back draw to this solution, being the visible opening and closing of multiple reports.
Are you sure that adding the "rptFax2" to the DoCmd doesn't trigger the "entire" report, overwriting the set WHERE parameter?
(Always looking for flaws, you know me <LOL>)
Nic;o)
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by: nico5038Posted on 2008-05-07 at 14:45:41ID: 21520604
In a case like this I dynamically create the query before activating the report.
Make sure that a reference is opened for the DAO library then you can use:
dim qd as DAO.querydef
set qd = currentdb.querydefs("qryRe
qd.SQL = "select * from tblX where customerid=" & Me.CustomerID
'==> Here execute the DoCmd.OutputTo
Keep in mind that the "qryReport2" is filled dynamically and that the real content (when you use the original report query) will be overwritten!
Getting the idea ?
Nic;o)