I started at this company not too long ago and they are wanting me to modify some Access reports for them. My problem is that I can't figure out where the data is coming from for a particular report. If I click on a 'label' in design view and goto 'Properties' it just tells me the name of the column that it's pulling from. I want to know the query or table that it's pulling from. Any ideas on how to find that out? It's probably something SO easy that I'm overlooking.

Thanks!
Brad

Hi Brad,

You're really close... Make sure you are in design view, and then click a little box type thing at the top left corner of the report. This should bring up the property box for the report itself. The Datasource for the Report will give you the answer you need, and should be either a Query or a SQL Stamement. Yell if you need any more help with this.

Mike

Mike
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Oh - And welcome to the forum. You'll find it a very valuable resource, and you'll probably find yourself being able to contribute before long

All the best

Mike

Mike
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Perfect! Thank you!

Ok, I've got another problem now. The query is pulling 2 records for this report. I have a field that I want to display in a label. The field for one of the records is Null, but the other has data. How do I tell a label to only display the record who's field is not Null? I'm assuming that I use an expression in the Control Source property, but I don't know expressions well enough to do this.

Thanks again!
Brad

If I remember right, you can't display data in a label, but a textbox would look pretty much the same - you might just have to set the border-style to transparent.

As for the expression try the following

=iif(isnull([YourFieldName]),"",[YourFieldName])

Mike

Mike
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I'm getting an '#Error'. I love M$'s user-friendly errors

I think that means it doesn't recognize the data - I'd start with double checking the field name in the expression, and then possible put a text box right next to it, linked directly to the field to check the value and make sure that is coming though...


Mike
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Ok, I got the error to go away. The textbox and the data field had the same name. :)

Now, it appears to be competely ignoring the record that has data in that field. It looks like the expression is only running on the record with the Null field. Any ideas?

So the field is showing NULL, or is it completely blank?

Mike
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