Wildcard Queries
Aug 17, 2005
I am running a query that links to a "wildcard" form so that the user can basically run a query filtered on any field they want.
For some reason when I try to use wildcards along with Criteria in my query the query will not return any results. I know the link to the textbox is right because if I take out the wildcard and put an exact word from the table I get a result.
I have tried using many different combinations inclusive of the following:
Like [Forms]![Refurb-WildcardReport]![RefurbWildcard-Name]
Like "[Forms]![Refurb-WildcardReport]![RefurbWildcard-Name]"
"[Forms]![Refurb-WildcardReport]![RefurbWildcard-Name]"
[Forms]![Refurb-WildcardReport]![RefurbWildcard-Name]
Any help would be appreciated, as always thank you ahead of time.
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Jan 24, 2007
Hi
I am looking for ways to sort date columns.
Something like find all in one particular month, or year.
I know i have done this before to sort data into monthly queries,
but now i have forgotten
>> something like ="#*/7/*#" to sort all date on the 7th month.
By the way I cannot seem to get access to format dates in the
dd/mm/yy format, does anyone know if there is an option for this.
cheers
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Dec 16, 2014
In a database am building, I want to run a query with the criteria dependant on which field the user populates in a form.
The form has a number of fields that the user can select from including our reference number, the client's reference number and the site address.
I would like the user to be able to select the site address using a wildcard so that they can enter a part of the address such as "This Street" instead of "45 This Street" and the user be presented with all of the records matching "This Street".
I tried using the criteria:
Code:
Like "*" & [Forms]![SearchJobs]![SearchAddressLine1] & "*"
Which works perfectly as long as this field is populated. If this field is not populated, entering details in any other field bring up every record in the database.
Code:
IIf(IsNull([Forms]![SearchJobs]![SearchAddressLine1]),Null,[Forms]![SearchJobs]![SearchAddressLine1] & "*")
The full sql of my query is:
Code:
SELECT Jobs.JobsSalesEnquiryRecordNumber, Jobs.JobsJobStatus, Jobs.JobsEnquiryDate, Jobs.JobsTakenBy, ClientDetails.ClientDetailsURN, ClientDetails.ClientDetailsName, ClientDetails.ClientDetailsAddressLine1, ClientDetails.ClientDetailsAddressLine2, ClientDetails.ClientDetailsAddressLine3, ClientDetails.ClientClientPostCode, Jobs.JobsClientJobNumber, Jobs.JobsAlternativeClientJobNumber, Jobs.JobsClientContact,
[Code] ....
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Jan 9, 2014
I have built a search form to feed information to a query. The form uses combo boxes tied to table values, and all have wild cards built into them so if the user leaves the combo box they get all the records. I also have to text boxes representing start date and end date. I would like to allow the user to leave these blank and get all there as well. I have been looking through my one Access book, as well as searched all over the internet, but I cant seem to find the way to do this. My filter criteria for the text based combo boxes are like this:
Code:
Like "*" & [Forms]![ReportDesignF]![Company] & "*"
My filter criteria for the Start and End Dates looks like this:
Code:
Between [Forms]![ReportDesignF]![StartDate] And [Forms]![ReportDesignF]![EndDate]+#11:59:59 PM#
In this case of the user leaves the date values blank, the query returns nothing. I would like to return all dates if that is the case. I am assuming it is my lack of knowledge of wild cards and how they work with date values.
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Jun 5, 2013
I am trying to replace a # character and all characters after in a text field.
U set up a Select query and used the following expression:
Expr1: Replace([Part Number],"[#]*","")
It doesn't change any of the records. Is this possible to do in Access 2007?
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Jul 8, 2014
I'm building a query using wildcard "like". See the attached file. My question is that why doesn't the query "result" return "aaaaa" for "aaa" is contained within "aaaaa"?I'm basically limiting my records to those found in tbl_site based on a wildcard "like".
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May 24, 2015
I am trying to get a wildcard search to work with a form.
I have a query, in which the criteria is:
Like "*" & [Enter a word] & "*"
That works fine. I enter a word, and I get the few records in which the word appears.But if I try to replace [Enter a word] with a word entered on a control on a form, it doesn't work - I get all the records. This is my code:
Like "*" & [Forms]![Myform]![Mycontrol]&"*"
What am I doing wrong?
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May 21, 2015
How do I design a query to return a result in a wildcard format? So that I could enter a part of a name, and it returns all the names that include that part of name?
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May 15, 2006
i've try and no luck... using Like "* *"
i'm tryin to create one that if i search for like let say "brisbane" it would show the results of the complete spelling, but let say if i was to just type "b" or "bris" it would show u a list of "B" towns or matching words of "bris".
any assit would be great
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Jan 31, 2005
I have a field in a table that has the following data in it:
W-01-2005
W-02-2005
W-03-2005
W-04-2005
etc..
I created a query against this table and put a pop-up on this field so they can enter the search criteria needed, or leave blank for all.
I'd like to modify this pop-up code to ignore the W- and -2005. When the pop-up appears and asks them what week they want, I'd like for them just to enter 01 or 02 or 03 etc... not W-01, W-02 etc..
This is the code I have currently in this field.
Code: Like [Enter Two Digit Week] & "*"
Thanks, Leap!
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Jul 4, 2005
Can anyone say what the syntax would be for the "incorrect" statement below?
Like *Mid([checking]![COMPANY NAME],1,InStr([checking]![COMPANY NAME]," "))*
As the statement above doesnt work, just returns errors.
Thanks in advance
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Aug 17, 2005
Hi,
Im having a little problem with the following code in one of my queries
Expr1: IIf(IsNull([Forms]![editLookForm]![Company_Name]),True,[Company Name]=[Forms]![editLookForm]![Company_Name])
What this does is, it take an typed entry from the form (editlookform) and seaches for that entry in the query
i want to add wildcard entrys to this so that the person operating doesnt have to know the complete company name - i just dont know where to put them
Help please
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Oct 6, 2005
I have several queries looking up products from a table. I use a simple form to access the query and in the criteria of the field I use [Forms]![EnterCroft]![ProductName] to filter by name. (EnterCroft is the name of the form).
It works fine but doesn't like the asterisk (*) for all products.
I also want to use wildcard before and after key words in the product names, eg *cup* for anything with CUP in it's name.
How can I do this?
Thank you very much.
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Dec 13, 2005
ok in access 2003 i have tried everything to get the Like "*oak*" to work but to all fail it replaces "Like" with "ALike" i have tried to find some info on this but have not it seams like something easy i wanted to do.
SELECT MainData.ModelName
FROM MainData
WHERE (((MainData.ModelName) ALike "*oak*"));
some reason it wont find all data with "oak" in it just returns empty
this is like query 101 but for some reason it has stumped me, along with one other problem but i am still researching that one.
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Dec 14, 2005
This is making me mad now :mad: i want a query to search for what a user inputs into the query. but for example if i seach in a field wheres there is one or more words in it. eg. I want to search my table for a address (60 donnington road etc) so in the user input box i type "donnington" but i get no results even though it should find "60 Donnington Road"
code i used. [Please enter address] now where does the wild card go?!?!
hope that makes sense :cool:
thanks
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Mar 14, 2007
Hello, I'm trying to use wildcards to filter for records that contain a date somewhere within the string.
I'm using Like "*#.##.##*" which works for dates that have a day of the months >10, but what about those under?
Well, Like "*#.#.##*" only works for those with the day of month <10. Is there a wildcard character for "one or more digits"?
Also, the above example excludes Oct. - Dec. for the same reason.
help!
Thanks,
Gifford
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Feb 24, 2006
Hey everyone, I've been busy creating a switchboard based on database, and I came across this issue. When I put a search through records command button, it seems that I can't use the wildcard characters, such as *,%,_ in order to find multiple records matching my criteria.
Am I supposed to "enable" them from somewhere or am I doing something wrong.
Any help?
Thanx in advance
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Feb 21, 2014
I'm trying to add a spreadsheet from a folder using wildcards by just looking for a number in the file name.
strPath = "C:Training"
strFile = strPath & "*" + "(ZZ131008)" + "*.xls"
DoCmd.TransferSpreadsheet acImport, , "Training1", strFile, , ""
I get a response saying it cannot find the file and it shows the * in the path it cannot find. How can I make it find the right file?There are more files in the folder and the (ZZ131008) defines that course, I'd like to reuse the code for the other courses too.
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Nov 20, 2013
I have a combobox with 2 columns where I manually set the following criteria:
"E";"English"
"F";"French"
"EF";"Bilingual"
In my employee table under the Languages field I have E,F or EF
I wanted to display in a sub-form a list of employees who speak a specific language but I can't use a wildcard in the combo-box properties. Basically when someone is looking for an English speaking employee they should get both E and EF employees not only E.
I tried doing "E*";"English" but it doesn't display anything.
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Jun 28, 2005
I have a query that prompts with a parameter box for the field Contributor_ID. Contributor_ID is a numeric field & Key and I use it to allow the user to print a report based on which Contributor_ID value the user enters. This works fine. However, I would like the user to have the option to enter * and then have the report include ALL the contributor IDs. I have done this before on a text field without a problem, however is this not possible on a numeric field as it is not working? I'm trying not to have another version for the ALL option.
If this is not possible, are there any alternatives?
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Feb 1, 2006
Hello,
I am not sure if this is possible, but I am running an update query to add text in a field if a certain criteria is met. However, if the field I am adding to already contains what I am trying to add, i don't want it to add it again. Everything works fine except the IIF statement in my update field. Here is what I have:
IIf(Temp_Vendor_Trips.[Reco Classification]="*" & "V3" & "*",Temp_Vendor_Trips.[Reco Classification],Temp_Vendor_Trips.[Reco Classification] & " " & "V3")
If the field contains the text V3, I want it to be left alone and continue to show what is already in the field, if not, i want it to add V3 to the end.
Thanks in advance for the help!
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May 26, 2006
Just been searching around, found a few posts of uppercase questions, none that quite fit with mine, anyway,
Basically, the data I am working on produces names as such "JoeBloggs" "FredPerry"
Anyway, Im going to use a query to seperate these out into first name and last name, but, I can't seem to find a way to specify a capital letter as a wild card. So far:
CapPos: InStr(2,[calllogs]![CalledNumber],"A")
Then I am going to use the mid function to seperate the two, depending on the position of the first capital letter.
But I just need to replace "A" with something that will find any capital letter.
Cheers
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Jul 10, 2006
I have a SQL that enables the user to search the form from different combo boxes to narrow down the data. I can get this to work but it only finds the fields that exactly match their input data. I want them to be able to type something in the combo box and then it pull up anything with that value in that field, whether it is 1839B or B1839 it should find both if I type in 1839
Here is my sql statements
SELECT DISTINCT [WeldingSpecification].[Spec], [WeldingSpecification].[Steel Type], [WeldingSpecification].[Group11], [WeldingSpecification].[Group143], [WeldingSpecification].[Substitute1]
FROM WeldingSpecification
WHERE ((([spec] & "") Like IIf([Forms]![frmSearchCriteriaMain]![spec] Is Null,"*", [Forms]![frmSearchCriteriaMain]![Spec] & "*"))
And (([SteelType] & "") Like IIf([Forms]![frmSearchCriteriaMain]![SteelType] Is Null,"*",[Forms]![frmSearchCriteriaMain]![SteelType] & "*"))
And (([Group11] & "") Like IIf([Forms]![frmSearchCriteriaMain]![Group11] Is Null,"*",[Forms]![frmSearchCriteriaMain]![Group11] & "*"))
And (([Group143] & "") Like IIf([Forms]![frmSearchCriteriaMain]![Group143] Is Null,"*",[Forms]![frmSearchCriteriaMain]![Group143] & "*"))
And (([Substitute1] & "")([spec] Like "*" & Forms![frmSearchCriteriaMain]!Spec & "*" & "") Like IIf([Forms]![frmSearchCriteriaMain]![Substitute1] Is Null,"*",[Forms]![frmSearchCriteriaMain]![Substitute1] & "*"))
Any help is appreciated, please ask if you do not understand fully
Riley
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Jan 26, 2007
I am trying to use a Switch expression as a column heading in a crosstab query to generate statistics for how much work is done per client (Requester). Each requester is referred to by acronym, so it may look like "DOD/OUSD/FTT/ATA/B", but I want that column to include everything that starts with DOD, instead of listing each instance separately. This is my expression so far:
Expr1: Switch([Requester]="DOD*","DOD",[Requester]="DS/ATA","ATAP")
When I run the query, the column "ATAP" shows up perfectly with all the correct info, but it's as if I never entered "DOD*". Nothing appears, and since I didn't add anything in the Switch function for what to do with other requesters, the second column shows up as <>.
Do wildcard *'s not work in Switch functions? I don't get any errors, but this is definitely not the information I'm looking for.
Is there any other way to include all Requesters that start with DOD in one column?
This is my SQl if that's helpful:
TRANSFORM Sum([Q and D Database].[Word Count]) AS [SumOfWord Count]
SELECT [Q and D Database].[Source/Target]
FROM [Q and D Database]
WHERE ((([Q and D Database].[Out Date]) Between #1/1/2006# And #12/31/2006#))
GROUP BY [Q and D Database].[Source/Target]
ORDER BY [Q and D Database].[Source/Target], Switch([Requester]="DOD*","DOD",[Requester]="DS/ATA","ATAP")
PIVOT Switch([Requester]="DOD*","DOD",[Requester]="DS/ATA","ATAP");
Thanks!!!
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Mar 28, 2007
I know I have seen post close to this one but not hitting what I need.
I currently have a query that is structured as such...
Service: IIf([Serv] Like '*AA*',' Bas ','') & IIf([serv] Like '*AB*','Exp ','') & IIf([serv] Like '*CA*',' Dig ','') & IIf([serv] Like '*89*',' 384 ','') & IIf([serv] Like '*8H*',' 3M ','') & IIf([serv] Like '*?5*',' 5M ','') & IIf([serv] Like '*=W*',' 10M ','') & IIf([serv] Like '*<1*',' Tele ','')
Works great except for the last IIF stmt has now been changed to look for the code *6 - not wildcard6 -
How can I get Access to realize that I need it to look for
anything to the left or right but it must find the *6
This IIf([serv] Like '**6*',' Tele ','') wont work b/c I have other codes that end in 6.
I am at a loss - any help is appreciated.
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Sep 6, 2007
In my query Im using the criteria
="cashpayer*"
to bring up any records in this field which start with cashpayer but its not working. Is my text correct?
Cheers
Phill
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