Category: Reports

Testing a MS Access subreport for records

I haven’t done one of these in a long, long time, but I happen to be doing a bit of coding for a friend, and wanted to make a subreport control on an Access report invisible should it have no data. Of course, since I’ve been mostly out of the Access game for a while now, I was racking my brain for a bit, trying to figure it out and stumbling through a whole bunch of non-working solutions on the net.

But I eventually figured it out….

Assuming you have a subreport control on a parent report called MySubReport and … Read the rest

Access Report Design – Cluttered Controls – Can Grow & Can Shrink

Here’s a quick tip with regards to report, and to a lesser extent, form design. Many times when you’re design Ms Access reports, often you will come across spatial problems, where you simply trying to fit too many controls (usually textboxes) on a report – even when you’re designing in landscape mode.

Two extremely handy TEXT-BOX properties are the CAN GROW and CAN SHRINK property. By setting these properties to YES on a text-box, these will tell a text book to grow and shrink vertically with regards to the the size of the data that they are displaying. This means … Read the rest