I am working on a bibliographic database. It would be nice to generate a report with a listing of titles at the top of the report and then have more detailed information on each of those titles appear below. Ideally, users would like to "click" on those titles of interest and go to the more detailed information. Any suggestions?
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Is a 2-part report possible?
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If you are talking about clicking, then in MS Access terms, you are talking about a form. (A report is on paper or available in preview mode, with no interactivity on the screen)
Anyway, yes what you want is very doable. Create a form which contains the titles of the books and the book ID field. In the click event of the textbox which hold the title, or in a button, whichever you prefer, open a new form, filtered by the book ID of the current record.
Something like
DoCmd.OpenForm "frmBookDetail",,,"BookID=" & me!bookID
Look up the OpenForm method, and it will explain in more detail.
Hope this helps.
Kathryn
Anyway, yes what you want is very doable. Create a form which contains the titles of the books and the book ID field. In the click event of the textbox which hold the title, or in a button, whichever you prefer, open a new form, filtered by the book ID of the current record.
Something like
DoCmd.OpenForm "frmBookDetail",,,"BookID=" & me!bookID
Look up the OpenForm method, and it will explain in more detail.
Hope this helps.
Kathryn
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