What does "Enter Parameter Value" mean?

Hi again

What is the name of the parameter it is asking for?

If it is an unexpected request, it usually means there is a typo in the query or your where clause in the Macro maybe...

Oh, I'm glad it's you.
hummmmm President.  Does that mean all that I have to do is type in President?  That worked (**)  
Why does it need to ask and can I ask it not to do that?
Cheryl

That means you have entered the word 'President' somewhere as if it is a field name.

Have you forgotten to put quote marks around the word President in your where clause in the macro?

Quote marks!!   What quote marks?
I went back in and added those quote marks.  It didn't seem to make any difference and when I let it print, it printed all of the differnt member, not just the Presidents.

I guess the question about Parameter Value has been answered except, Can you turn that box off?

Copy and Paste the Where Clause into here please - so I can see it

Cheryl,

<<I guess the question about Parameter Value has been answered except, Can you turn that box off?>>

  Yes and no.  You get the box because somewhere you used a value that Access can't resolve; in other words, it doesn't know what value to use.

  For example, if you refer to a control in a form from a query:
 
  =Forms![myForm]![myControl]

  and that form is not open or 'myControl' doesn't exist on the form, you'll get prompted for a parameter value with the dialog box.  

  So you turn "off" the dialog by fixing the problem that exists.

HTH
JimD

Mr. Sloath,

This is the copy and paste   ["President"]

Jim,

That was a good explantion and it makes sense.  I recently read an article about null values which is like a parallel problem for Access but easier to solve.  What might be the missing information in such a short program?  Perhaps the quotes that Mr. Sloath is helping me with.

Cheryl

Cheryl,

<<That was a good explantion and it makes sense.  I recently read an article about null values which is like a parallel problem for Access but easier to solve.  What might be the missing information in such a short program?  Perhaps the quotes that Mr. Sloath is helping me with.>>

  No, Access could handle a Null, which is the absence of a value.

  What I should have said before is:

"You get the box because somewhere you used a reference that Access can't resolve; in other words, it doesn't know what value to use."

  It's the reference you used somewhere that is the problem.  Your are telling Access to look somewhere and what you told it to look at it cannot find.

  This is usually a mis-spelled field or control name, something that doesn't exist, or a form or report that is not open.

  If your references were correct, it could locate the reference and use it, get the value NULL, and it would use that to carry out the operation without prompting you with the dialog box for the parameter.

JimD

Jim,
Then a null value and the missing information which brings up the 'Enter Parameter Value' aren't simlar?  I just remember seeing a message that a null value wasn't acceptable.
Thanks for your help, Cheryl

The 'Enter Perameter Value' box didn't pop up and it printed, that was good, but it printed all of the roles.

I can't think of how it would have been given the information it needs to filter them.  
So far I have: one table,tblOrganization with a fied for Roles, a macro for each Role.
What could I be missing?

Cheryl

Good Day Mr. Sloath,

Is it OK to finish this question by getting the label report to print by roles, or should I close this one out and ask a new question?

Cheryl

Just ask a question

To TheSloath:

"Loose" (pronounced "luce" with a sibilant, or soft, "c") is the opposite of "tight" or "restrain."

I think you meant to say "Lose" (pronounced "luze") as in the opposite of "find" or "obtain."

- The Grammar Police... ;)