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MS Access 2010 subreport problem
Posted on 2013-01-06
I have a report based on employee details. The source is a table I have built specifically for this report - tblEmpCharges. The user can specify whether or not to 'show details' for each employee.
The main report is grouped by employee ID, and I show summary info at the employee header level. I want the report detail to have a subreport which shows the employee details. If the user specifies don't show details' I intend to set the source of the subreport control to nothing., so only employee summary line will show.
The subreport has exactly the same source as the main report, and I want to set up the parent/child to be EmployeeID. However, every time I try to insert the subreport into the main report (detail section) Access crashes completely.
I have checked the subreport by viewing it independantly - all good. Also, main report is fine if there is nop subreport.
So, my questions are:
Can you have a subreport with same source as parent report in the report detail section?
Is there a better way to show or not show employee detail depending on user request?
Thank you.
The main report is grouped by employee ID, and I show summary info at the employee header level. I want the report detail to have a subreport which shows the employee details. If the user specifies don't show details' I intend to set the source of the subreport control to nothing., so only employee summary line will show.
The subreport has exactly the same source as the main report, and I want to set up the parent/child to be EmployeeID. However, every time I try to insert the subreport into the main report (detail section) Access crashes completely.
I have checked the subreport by viewing it independantly - all good. Also, main report is fine if there is nop subreport.
So, my questions are:
Can you have a subreport with same source as parent report in the report detail section?
Is there a better way to show or not show employee detail depending on user request?
Thank you.
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Yes, your subreport can have the same recordsource as your main report. As to what is causing your report to crash, it's hard to say without seeing your design. However, I don't see the need for having a subreport to show the employee details. You can just have the employee details on the main report's Detail section and just make the Detail section invisible accordingly.
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May be you can upload sample DB with this table and report? Crash is not expected in your case. I see no problems with same report source.
Yes, I could do this, but if the subreport detail is say 10 lines of data,and I do as you suggest and add these 10 lines to my main report, making these detail fields invisible would then show 10 blank lines. Is there a way to just show the summary line with no detail? I did try to make the detail section invisible but this didn't work.
I tried me.section(acDetail).visib
I tried me.section(acDetail).visib
In the report open event? Or detail-format event? or other?
I just tried it in report open event and got wierd "report is wider than paper" error on docmd.openreport line. (although report is not too wide)
I just tried it in report open event and got wierd "report is wider than paper" error on docmd.openreport line. (although report is not too wide)
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