Dynamic Reporting System

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Sharkbyte

Has anyone experimented with, or completed, any kind of dynamic report
building system, within Access? This would be for use from an MDE, not the
Reports tab.

I would be interested in looking at how you were able to accomplish this.

Thanks in advance.

Sharkbyte
 
If you mean an adhoc report, you cannot create anything at runtime with an
MDE, but you can run existing code to show or hide objects. You can also
used a Dialog form to alter the values of the report's criteria.
 
Has anyone experimented with, or completed, any kind of dynamic report
building system, within Access?  This would be for use from an MDE, notthe
Reports tab.

I would be interested in looking at how you were able to accomplish this.

Thanks in advance.

Sharkbyte
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You mean like Crystal Reports?
 
Yes, I've done it, no, I can't really give any advice.

You don't want to re-create MS Access: that application already exists, and
it would be far to much work.

Instead, as a starting point you need to decide what small feature of your
reports you would like your user to be able to change, and create a form
that allows them to change that.

(david)
 
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