I am currently implementing a stock control database in access. I have various forms for entering stock in and taking it out etc. It all works fine except I need a way of sorting my data to produce very specific reports. The company wants reports to be listed in a very specific order. I have many fields with which I have to sort the data so it has proved a very time consuming problem.
I have tried the custom sort order techniques involving the switch function, however due to the large extent of data in use this approach has limited success.
I have also tried merely applying numbers to the front of a stock item to sort it, however this is a very basic approach and means the user has to look at random numbers before actually reading the stock item in reports.
One approach that could work would be to have a sort order as a separate field. But the user would have to then enter a sort order number each time data is entered(?).
Does anyone have any ideas as to how to solve this problem?
I have a combo box based on a table. The table is sorted by the Customer surname field using the Order By property. My Problem is the combo box will still display data in the unsorted order ie in Primary Key order.
Any suggestions on how I can make the Combo Box display dat in ascending order of Customer.
When I open my form the data are sorted through the ID, How can I change that to be sorted through the Year? On my form properties is that the Filter is responsible for sorting?
One of my forms has a load of data displayed in it from a query and I would like to allow the user to sort this data by means of some buttons next to each column heading. For instance clicking 'up' next to first name / last name etc will sort ascending on first name, 'down' will sort descending etc. I tried setting up different queries for each sort and changing the record source of the form in the on click event but then the controls don't seem to know where to populate from!!
I need to create a absenteeism database for work . I have attached a sample data for you to see how my table is in access.
so the fields that i have are name, team leader, date, code, department, minutes.
from this raw data I need:
1) a high level summary report that groups all ccps by team leader and how many hours the team leader has and each individual ccp.
2) summarize by code the hours each ccp has and also occurence. if the ccp has been sick 3 days in a row then it is considered 1 occurence. if they have been sick multiple days but are not concurrent then each one is an occurence so i need that info categorized by month and tl.
3) a form where the user can pick what codes they want to see from a check box / list box (which one would be better?) and group those codes by ccp and team leader month over month.
This is related to "Old_value, new_value" thread I posted yestarday (Module&VBA).
I have a problem i missed yestarday. The code it's vorking great, but it allways takes the showed new_value and makes it old_value for the new record, and this is a problem, because the showed record is not the last for that customer. So, I was thinking that if I make a new Autonumber field in my table, I could sort descending the values and this way the input form will allways show me the last entered data for that person. As I noticed from a long time ago, if I sort a table that allready has a form, the form won't show the records sorted. Why? It's necessary to make the form again? I tried to order the data on the form from Properties window ->Data->Order by, but the ordering is Ascending and I need it Descending! Can enybody help me?
Hi. I was doing a simple query that resulted in a "data type mismatch in criteria expression" error. Hunting around for the source I realized that when I attempt to sort a column of numerical data a hidden decimal point is inserted and what should be an order of : 45, 10, 9, 2, becomes this order: 9, 45, 2, 10 (i.e., 9, 4.5, 2, 1.0)
I have a Form which contains a datasheet and I have some code which allows users to custom sort this datasheet. Another table based on this datasheet is then exported as a csv file. However, the data is obviously not exported in the same order as the datasheet and it is quite critical for the application to be a sucess that it is exported in the custom order chosen by the user.
I have done some re-search, searching groups, forums etc and found the solution of having a 'sort column' in the table the datasheet relates to, I can then use this in the query that exports the data. My only problem with this is I had to manually fill in this sort column in the datasheet, once I had decided upon my final sort order. Is there anyway to fill this column automatically based on a row's position in a datasheet?
I have a table with product numbers and their cost. That table has 3 fields : SKU, Cost, Month. (The cost can change every month, therefore the list is built to have a cost / month)
I want the user to be able to input the data in the table using the form but I would like the form to be sorted Alphanumerically for the SKU numbers and then per month (in their normal order not alphanumerically).
I have a combobox (named month for testing purposes) to force the user to select one of the 12 months and the field type is Text.
Also I am unsure how to "autosort" (or apply a permanent sort) the form whenever it's opened. Will it be applied if I just set the sort and then restrict the user from seeing let's see design mode?
I have a form I created in the past that auto-fills some of its fields based on the user's selection of a record from a combo box linked to another table. The form has been working perfectly however I recently tried to add a couple of more fields to the form that need to be autofilled. I added the new fields to the source table and added columns to the combobox that should allow my VB code to fill those boxes. However only one of the new fields is filling correctly. After trying a few different things I notice that the problem seems to be with whatever data field becomes the 21st column in the combobox. Is there some sort of limit on the number of columns contained in the data source for such a box?
The recordsource is a query with over 6,000 records. The form currently lists the records in datasheet format with header and footer for things like buttons and filtering. The client wants to be able to go from page to page of the souce query, showing 100 records on the form at a time.
But at the same time, they should be able to filter or sort the data source in it's entirety. The person who created the form came up with what seems like an awful solution to the problem. It seems to use a random number generator to determine how many records to portray at a time. I see this in the code as well as in operation, because the number of records on page to page varies. It doesn't even start out at 100! Worse yet, using a sort on the page only sorts the records that are visible.
i made a report based on a query. when i run the query, my results are sorted by Job Time Ascending, like i want... when i made my report i chose job id as the main group priority in the wizard..
now in my report it displays the jobs in ID ascending, rather than Job time ascending as my query says..
i dont want to re-do the report it took ages.. how can i fix this?
I have a form in Access 2K that properly displays city, state and zip codes. As I type in each letter of a city's name into the combo box, I get the first city in the sorted list displayed (autofills). That's fine when there is only one zip code for a city, but when I enter "chic" for chicago I still get the first chicago zip code in my table.
It sure would be nice if I could do a "sort within a sort" so that if there were two or more records with the same city name then that whole group would drop down so I could choose one of the other zip codes. If this is doable, kindly point me to an example as I need all the help I can get.
I have a query that sorts players batting averages from highest to lowest. When I run the query just by itself it sorts it right however when I open the report based on that query it does not sort in descending order like I asked. What am I missing??
I try to do something but I don't know how. I have 1 table with 3 rows (title, year, genre) and 1 Form. Is it possible to create combobox or something with 3 criterium, when I selected criterium to re-sort columns in Forms (by title, by year, by genre)?
Continuous form: The standard menu / toolbar commands sort ASC and DEC work just fine. However, if I define a button with the VBCode "DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdSortAscending", I get an alarm message pop-up saying "the command or action "SortAscending" isn't available now". I made sure that the standard menu items "Sort asc / dec" are not grayed out(disabled) at the time I click the button in runtime. The mouse cursor points to the desired sort criteria field.
Hello all... I have a table which includes month, day & date. I want to sort this table by day, and then by month & then by year... does anyone know how to do this?
Been looking at this forum for a few weeks and think it's great!!
Now for my first post :rolleyes:
We have a DB at work (attached) and it was put together by a consultant would you believe. Anyway I have been given the task to fix this. It now work i.e. it records what I want. The only problem is that it's written with more macros than i've ever seen.
I want some advice on the DB to make it function better. It is used to record how long a member of staff spend on a piece of work, apologies for the interface.
1. The user must first input a date , start date and end date into a table. Now the start date will always be a Monday and the end date a Sunday. Is there anyway to automate that process? i.e if a user goes in on a Monday the prevous weeks date is there but if the user went in before it would not , get the idea.
Anyway, please rip it to shreads and give me some advice
I have a table already set up in a Subform of a main form
The Table has values like -Date -Time -Name -SchBy
I want to have the subforms table to automatically re-sort ascending by Time, how would I go about doing this so the user doesn't have to click the field then sort ascending button...?:confused:
When i sort values, for some reason the negatives are at the top, followed by the highest positive values. Anyway to turn this off? Tried google and searching these forums.
Hi all. I imported a text file into a new table. I sorted the table on one field, then exported table to another text file. But, the sort did not export. The new text file has the same sort as the original. What am I doing wrong? Thanks.
