I currently have records that end with a letter and 2 numbers. For example, A1, A2, ... , A10, A11. When I try to sort my table/query by these values, A10 & A11 come before A2. It seems that it is sorting by the first digit shown. Is there any way to fix this quickly within table/query properties so that this can be displayed in proper numeric order?
View RepliesHi all,
I have a simple 2-table database. the 'parent' table is tblProducts, and the 'child' table is tblDocuments. (one [products] to many [docouments] relationship)
My data entry is done using a 'documents' subform inside a 'products' parent form. The data entry works fine, except i would really like it if my products and documents would be listed in alphabetical order in their respective form/subform {makes it easier on the user, and saves me needing a find record button}. At the moment they seem to be ordered by the time in which they were added to the table. I guess Access is using the primary Key as the 'order by' parameter.
The thing that is infuriating me is that i have gone into my two tables and told access to sort the data by Product Name, and Document name in the respective tables. I can verify that this has worked by going to data view; lo and behold the data are listed in the order i specified.
Further I have gone into my form and sub form properties, into the Data...Order By property and have keyed in the name of the field i want to sort by (product name in the parent form, and document name in the sub form).
I have tried all combinations and permutations of the above processes but nothing seems to work.
It seems i am missing one crucial piece to the puzzle, as i haven't had much luck finding a solution on groups.google or anything else (maybe im using the wrong search terms). I am having this problem with all of my databases, so any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedHi all.
I've created a database which contains information about stores. I want to have the forms automaticly sorted by the department number.
I've tried to sort the table by department, but when I try to add a department, the sorting doesn't seem to affect the form at all.
Lets say I have department 1,2,3,6,7,8 in the form, and I add department 4, it will be the last post in the form. I want it to be the fourth, and so on..
I'd apreciate some help with this :) Thanks
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I am creating a table, using an INTO statement.
I require a blank numeric field, which users will be updating via a form.
How do I make the field numeric, as my current script makes it a text field
'' as Ticket_No
And you can't cast/convert text to numeric ....
Have a Make table query that needs to create (add) several new fields where each field must be numeric design.
Have tried:
Score1: Not Null - does not seem to work (results in a Binary field)
Score1: 0 - which does give me the numeric field designation but every field in table contains a 0.
Would like to show Blank field (makes data input easier at a later time) but still have the Numeric designation.
I am creating a table, using an INTO statement.
I require a blank numeric field, which users will be updating via a form.
How do I make the field numeric, as my current script makes it a text field
'' as Ticket_No
And you can't cast/convert text to numeric ...
How can I check if the user is entering numeric values?
I can do it in the code, i.e. the lost focus event to the text box but I want to make a check in the "validation rule property" of the text box...!! How is it possible??
Thanks
Hello,
I am not sure what cateogory to choose for this question but I would greatly appreciate your help.
I have 5 buttons in my option group:
1. very often
2. often
3. occasionally
4. rarely
5. never
I have to produce a report using description of each button in my report, not numeric value. I heard something about global variable but I am not sure how to do it.
Many thanks,
Debbie
Hi,
I am trying to create a query that will return the max value of small groups of alpha numeric fields. The numeric portion is the same for a series/group of items, but the alpha increments. Example: (I color coded the numeric groups for ease of reading)
The following:
...
0001210-0015A
0001210-0015B
0001210-0015C
0001211-0001A
0001211-0001B
0001211-0001C
0001211-0001D
0001211-0002A
0001211-0002B
0001211-0003A
0001211-0003B
0001211-0003C
0001212-0001A
...
would have a query result like this:
...
0001210-0015C
0001211-0001D
0001211-0002B
0001211-0003C
0001212-0001A
...
Unfortunately, I do not have any other fields that I could use to help. I was able to create two calculated fields one with the numeric portion and one with the alpha portion, but then didn't know how to remove the unwanted ones. Also, every value is the same size, 7 numbers, one dash, four numbers, and one letter. My table has around four thousand records or so.
I thought of writting a VB app to single step and compare, but I am hoping there is a better method.
I have been pouring over this site and trying all kinds of things that end up failing. I am not a novice, but obviously not an expert.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Hi
I am trying to replace the numeric values of a field with a text in querry using Choose function, something like this aa5:
Choose([a5]-1="one";[a5]-2="two";[a5]-3="three";[a5]-4="four")
But it is not giving me no results :(( I am missing something but I do not what. Maybe I should use some other function?
I hope someone will help me!
I have a form with a textbox, where one inputs a number and then I run a query with the form criteria. The query is
Code:
Select Blah blah from dbo_temp where A>textbox value OR B>textbox value OR C>textbox value OR D>textbox value
The columns which are linked to the textbox some times contain null values. So, A, B, C, D columns do contain null values.
The expression in the "Criteria" column of Columns A, B, C, D (all on different lines - to make sure OR criteria is fullfilled) is as follows
Code:
>IIf(IsNull([Forms]![MainForm]![Criteria]),-100,[Forms]![MainForm]![Criteria])
I've put in -100 as an arbitrary never possible number. Obviously, this does not return Null values.
Question: How can I return both Null & Numbers when the Textbox in the form is left blank? in all the columns. Currently, I am not getting Null values
Code:
>IIf(IsNull([Forms]![MainForm]![Criteria]),SHOW ME EVERYTHING INCLUDING NULL VALUES & NON-NULL NUMBERS,[Forms]![Material Finder]![txtPS])
or in other words
If the textbox is blank, show me all the data available, else if it is not blank then show me only the values that are greater than the number entered in the textbox from within column A, B, C, D ....
I am making a report off of a query. The report is returning values from a Option Group. 1=Yes, 2=No and 3=N/A. The report returns the numeric values and I want the value labels instead. So, I created a column in the query for exp1 which looks like the following:
=IIF([VSArrive]=1,"Yes",IIF([VSArrive]=2,"No","N/A"))
What the report returns is #Error.
I've created a macro to use an unbound textbox to filter a form. In a query, I combined 3 fields to enable an easy search over. Sadly, only text characters work for the search, so whenever I search for numeric values, it returns null. This doesn't happen if I utilise the filter over just a numeric field - only when the search field combined multiple fields.
Is there a simple solution? My marco filter is
Code:
[Forms]![STAFF SEARCH FORM]![SEARCHDATA] Like "*" & "[SEARCHFIELD]" & "*"
Is this possible, if using the following:
SELECT DISTINCT (Format([Month],"mmm yyyy")) FROM Table;
Adding a ORDER BY [Month]; gives a "distinct and order by" conflict...
Is there any way to alleviate this?
I want to display a "mmm yyyy" formatted combobox in order (i.e. Jan 2005, Feb 2005, Mar 2005, etc...)
TIA!
How do you search for any number of numeric characters using wildcards? The # symbol only searches for 1, and * obviously includes letters.
Example:
I have:
D1234
D3
D5336767
D123F
My search should only retrieve the first 3 values.
WHERE FieldName LIKE 'D[0-99999999]' does not seem to work.
I have a cross tab query. Essentially it groups together posted volumes into week numbers for different offices.
However, when I run the query, the order of the columns is not in a logical number order. I get Week 1 then Week 10 then Week 11 and Week 2 is further down the list and then Week 20 comes after that.
I would like if at all possible the Week Numbers to follow after one another i.e. Week 1 first then up to Week 52 in correct number order.
In my Dates Table I do have a SortID column which I hoped would resolve this issue so I could sort on the SortID column however this fails to work.
Attached is the query...
Code:
PARAMETERS [Forms]![frmSumOfVolByCCAndFormat]![cmbOfficeSearch] Text ( 255 ), Forms![frmSumOfVolByCCAndFormat]![txtStartDate] DateTime, Forms![frmSumOfVolByCCAndFormat]![txtEndDate] DateTime;
TRANSFORM Sum(tblTrafficEast.TrafficVolume) AS SumOfTrafficVolume
SELECT tblOffice.CostCentre, tblOffice.OfficeName, tblTrafficFormat.Format, Sum(tblTrafficEast.TrafficVolume) AS [Total Volume]
[Code] ....
I have a database with a code field which contains alfanumerical values like:
IB1, IB2, IB3...IB180, and so on.
When I sort the usual way A-->Z, I obtain:
IB1, IB10, IB100, IB101...IB109, IB11, IB110, IB111
How can I sort nicely to obtain IB1, IB2, IB3...
To complicate things, there are alfanumerical values with a different number of letters before the figures: like F1, F2... and SER1, SER2 and so on.
Is there any plugin to nicely sort those codes?
thanks in advance
Romain
:confused: :confused: :confused:
Please bear with me. I'm new to using access and plodding along little by little and I had little luck finding relavent past posts. I have a table with the column headings and a couple of records listed below. Each of those records has a subdatasheet pertaining to data for the commands. For every command, my dept does a survey or inspection every so many years. How often we do these surveys depends on the HAZ CAT. If the command has a HAZ CAT of I, they have a survey done every year. (HAZ CAT= II, every 2 years; HAZ CAT = III, every 4 years). On a form, I want to be able to generate the next serveral survey years (let's say for the next 10 years) based on the command's most recent survey year and its HAZ CAT. So for each command, there should be a listing of all its survey years. Then I want to be able to sort by year so I'll know what commands will need to be surveyed each year. I'll eventually have a form which will be my control panel. On the control panel will be command buttons labeled with years for the next 10 years. The button should open up a form with the records for the respective command information.
[CommandID] [Command] [HAZ CAT] [Last Recent Survey]
1 AIMD I 2004
16 DODDS III 2002
Hi All hope some one can help with this.
I have a sub for which is set to sort by ascending order for a given field which happens to be a text field with vales set something like abc1.1,abc1.2 ect. The problem is, is that when you get to abc1.10, and more these are then sorted as so
abc1.1
abc1.10
abc1.11
abc1.2
abc1.3
ect
How can I stop this and sort it:
abc1.1
abc1.2
abc1.3
.......
abc1.10
abc1.11
Thanks for any help with this
Paul
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e.g
Vehicle Sort Order
UNT/FL 500
FL4/45 400
E7/F5 600
UNT/FL 500
I want as
FL4/45 400
UNT/FL 500
UNT/FL 500
E7/F5 600