MS Access Report Get Value From Another Query
Thank you for looking at my question,
I have a report in MS Access comparing inventory and consumption that pulls from one query but I would like to pull one item in the report header , the date the inventory data was captured, from another query.
The inventory date is the only item in a query called qryInventoryDate
and in the data source property for the textbox I hoped would display this value I had typed a select query
= SELECT [qryInventoryDate]![Invent
but when I try to run the report it is prompting me for a parameter value for inventory date.
Can I get this data to display in the header of my report and if so how do I achieve that please?
I have a report in MS Access comparing inventory and consumption that pulls from one query but I would like to pull one item in the report header , the date the inventory data was captured, from another query.
The inventory date is the only item in a query called qryInventoryDate
and in the data source property for the textbox I hoped would display this value I had typed a select query
= SELECT [qryInventoryDate]
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PatHartman
A query returns a recordset which is different from a single value. That is why you can't just stick SQL expressions in controls. Rey's suggestion of a DLookup() would work. I'm pretty sure that Access is smart enough to run the query only once. An alternative is to add the qryInventoryDate query to your RecordSource query. No join lines. This makes a Cartesian Product but since this is a report, it doesn't matter. That way the column would be in the recordsource and you would just bind a control to it.
ASKER
Rey, worked perfectly, thank you