Hiya folks!

I have a report that shows something like the following (note that some articles are repeated):

PRODUCT DATE QUANTITY SOLD
Coca Cola 01/07/07 10
Ginger Ale 01/07/07 20
Seven Up 01/07/07 15
Coca Cola 02/07/07 6
Seven Up 03/07/07 4
Fanta 04/07/07 13

I have another report that is exactly like this one, but using a PRODUCT_HEADER section in the report, I have managed to summarize the above in the following way:

PRODUCT QUANTITY SOLD
Coca Cola 16
Ginger Ale 20
Seven Up 19
Fanta 13

The problem I have is when I try to make a count of the different types of articles sold in the second one, it keeps giving me the total count of articles counted in the first one.

I should have a count of 4 in the summarized version, but it keeps giving me a result of 6. Is there any way to count the number of Product Groups (in this case 4) or to count unique values in the detail section of the report to give me a result of 4 instead of 6?

Thank you!

The resulting value of 4 will then be used in a formula located in a separate field.

Okay, this works, but there may be more elegant way of doing it:

Private Sub PageHeaderSection_Format(Cancel As Integer, FormatCount As Integer)
Dim sSQL As String
Dim rs As ADODB.Recordset
Public sValue As String

sSQL = "SELECT Count(Product) As PCount FROM qryYourReportQuery"
Set rs = New ADODB.Recordset
rs.Open sSQL, CurrentProject.Connection, adOpenStatic, adLockReadOnly
    sValue = rs("PCount")

Me.txtYourTextBox = sValue
rs.Close

End Sub


Now, I am not sure if the actual value in the text box will be available for your next formula, but the Public variable sValue WILL be. So try referring to the text box with something like:

=AVG([QtySold]/[txtYourTextBox])

And if that doesn't work, then do the calculation in code.

Did that help?

mmcdonal

Sorry,

sSQL = "SELECT DISTINCT Count(Product) As PCount FROM qryYourReportQuery"

Alternatively, make a query off the query for your report that selects distinct count from your report query, and then just do this:

sSQL = "SELECT PCount FROM qrySelectDistinctQuery"




mmcdonal

Hello again!

Thanks for your suggestion!

I am getting a compile error on this line of the code now:

rs As ADODB.Recordset

I guess I need to add this library, right? Can you tell me how to add libraries?

Thank you!