Solved: access - calendar to run query

[sjvenz]

At this stage I'm running my query from a promt entry, this is a date entry.

I have also a calendar form created

What I have been tring to do is when the user click on the command button a calendar pops up you then select a date and then from this date the query runs.

Does any one have any ideas

[geekgirlau]

What kind of query is it? If it's an action query you can set the parameter of the query definition and then execute it. If you just want to display data, you're better off having a form that you filter.

[Anne Troy]

Sounds like he wants THIS (http://www.fontstuff.com/access/acctut09.htm), but he wants the results used as the parameter(s) for a query. But I don't know how to do all that. :)

LOVE your new title, Geekgirl!! :bow:

[geekgirlau]

Can be done, but I just need to know the type of query.

Hey, do you think this is a case of the blind leading the blind? :tongue:

[Anne Troy]

Naw. That's what they call it when it's two GUYS.

[sjvenz]

What it does is when you click on a cmdButtton a Calendar is supposed to appear. Select / click on a date required then this runs a report which uses a query to obtain data.

Report Name - r4540-Newlands Load Table

Query Name - q4540-NewlandsLd This is just the normal paramater query prompting for dates. But instead of the prompts I was hoping to be able to use a Calendar

[Anne Troy]

Does the link I provided help you at all?

[geekgirlau]

The process is that when you click the calendar, you update an unbound text field on the form to the value of the calendar object - for example,


Me.txtFilterDate = Me.objCal.Value


Instead of having the parameter in the query, you set the criteria of the query to get the date from the text box on your form, so your criteria will be something like Forms!frmRunReport!txtFilterDate.

Depending on your report, you may actually want 2 dates so that your report can show all data between those dates.