Hey PHV,
It looks like I stand corrected. Your idea of using the query in the form seemed to work just fine.
I'm still not sure why the query wasn't working as intended, but I can forget about that now and use your method.
Thanks a lot for your help!
Jamie
Surely that will just open the standard text box query though, rather than using the value in the combo as the selection?
For what it's worth, I've just setup a new, very basic database to try and do this in a clean environment with no other forms, tables etc to get in the way, and I'm getting...
The simple answer to that is, I'm not sure how.
My knowledge of Access is very basic.
The tutorial I followed to do this seems to show exactly what I'm trying to achieve, but despite following every step perfectly, it isn't working. (I'm assuming there's some naming problem that's causing the...
Hello,
I've been following the tutorial at http://www.fontstuff.com/access/acctut08.htm to create a parameter query that calls a form containing a combo box.
However, when running the query, the form doesn't appear, and all I get is a normal text query box containing the criteria code.
Here...
Thanks for the response, PHV.
However, I'm still not sure what the solution is.
I'm not seeing the month function anywhere, and I'm not sure what the one parameter needs to be to create the correct query.
Hope that makes sense.
Jamie
I have managed to find one way of doing it, but it's quite cumbersome.
I've setup a query for each month of the year. By splitting the date of birth in to three fields, and then using the criteria "=11" (for November) in the November query, I've been able to get the results I want.
However...
Morning all,
I'm currently setting up a customer management database.
I've setup a table with all the fields and I've setup a form to populate those fields.
One of the table fields is "Date of Birth"
I'm trying to produce a report that will display all the customers with upcoming birthdays...
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