Give user the choice whether to run subreport

[TrekBiker]

My Invoice report has a subreport that shows details of amounts of unpaid previous invoices.

This increases the time to generate an invoice by a large amount, in one case to about 20 seconds with the subreport, from about 2 seconds without it.

I'd like to give the user the option to show the subreport data or not. How is this best achieved?

 

[dhookom]

You can try use a checkbox on a form and then add code to the report section to set the subreport to visible or not based on the checkbox.

Duane
Vevey, Switzerland
Hook'D on Access
MS Access MVP 2001-2016

 

[TrekBiker]

Hi, and thanks. Doesn't make the subreport invisible do just that rather than stopping the subreport loading, even if you can't see it?

 

[dhookom]

I'm not sure. You could test it by checking the performance. You could also add a little code to the On Print of a section in the subreport to debug.print something and see if there is anything in the debug window. Please test and report back.

Duane
Vevey, Switzerland
Hook'D on Access
MS Access MVP 2001-2016