Reports Dialog Box

Ben Horne · April 20th, 2004, 08:17 PM

Hi,

I am looking into creating a Reports Dialog Box for my Music Inventory 2001 application. Since I do not want all of the reports to show up in the dialog box, how should I name the system reports so they don't do that? I know it should start with sys. I'm clueless as to the other part of it.

Also, what SQL Statement should I use that will exclude all of the system reports? This is how I have the SQL Statement for an existing Forms Dialog Box.

SELECT [Name] FROM MSysObjects WHERE [Type]=-32768 And Not (Left([Name],1)="~" Or Left([Name],6)="sysfrm") ORDER BY [Name];

Thanks in advance,

Ben Horne
Madison Area Technical College student

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Steven · April 20th, 2004, 11:45 PM

I'm a little confused about what your problem is.
The SQL Statement you've got will not show the reports with the prefix "sysfrm", so what else do you want to do?
Do you want to put them in a listbox or combobox? in which case you'd just set that SQL statement to the RowSource of your box.

What's the problem?

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Ben Horne · April 21st, 2004, 12:40 PM

OK,

Steven, take a look at the SQL Statement below

SELECT [Name] FROM MSysObjects WHERE [Type]=-32768 And Not (Left([Name],1)="~" Or Left([Name],6)="sysfrm") ORDER BY [Name];

That is just an example of an SQL Statement I already have in one of my databases. I need some guidance regarding changing the SQL statement so it will show all reports in the database (not including system reports).

Now here's the thing. I talked to Greg via AOL Instant Messenger last night and he said he uses the "rpt" prefix for reports. Building on that, I decided that I should use the prefix "sysrpt"

Any further help would be appreciated.

Thank you,

Ben Horne
Madison Area Technical College student

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Steven · April 21st, 2004, 06:28 PM

How about:

Code:

SELECT MSysObjects.Name
FROM MSysObjects
WHERE (((MSysObjects.Type)=-32764));

Or, building further:

Code:

SELECT [Name] FROM MSysObjects 
WHERE [Type]=-32764 
And Not (Left([Name],1)="~" Or Left([Name],6)="sysrpt") 
ORDER BY [Name];

Steven

I am a loud man with a very large hat. This means I am in charge

Ben Horne · April 21st, 2004, 08:40 PM

FINALLY!:)

Just what I needed. Thanks for this (even though it took more than one post to squeeze it out of ya:(

Anyways,

Thanks again

Quote:

quote:Originally posted by Steven
How about:

Code:

SELECT MSysObjects.Name

Code:

FROM MSysObjects
WHERE (((MSysObjects.Type)=-32764));

Or, building further:

Code:

SELECT [Name] FROM MSysObjects 
WHERE [Type]=-32764 
And Not (Left([Name],1)="~" Or Left([Name],6)="sysrpt") 
ORDER BY [Name];

Steven

I am a loud man with a very large hat. This means I am in charge

Ben Horne
Madison Area Technical College student

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