Hi all. I have an Access command button that once clicked, runs an Impromptu report, exports it to Excel, and then transfers the Excel spreadsheet to a table in my Access database. The problem is that when the Impromptu report is exported to Excel, I lose all formatting (data types). Because the field names change on a weekly basis (I use week numbers as field names), it is very tedious to alter the field types using VBA code. I'm wondering if there's a way to keep formatting from Impromptu to Excel. I'm using Impromptu 6.0 and Excel 2000. Specifically, currency fields and percent fields are coming across as 'number' and therefore the percentages are very ugly (example: .686357586235) My code follows:
and I use DoCmd.TransferSpreadsheet acImport, acSpreadsheetTypeLotusWK1, "tblSalesDataSummary", _
strFile, True
The code example is using Lotus, but I've tried with both Lotus and Excel to no avail. Any suggestions are appreciated, otherwise I will have to alter the field types using code which I'm not 100% clear on how to do.
Thanks!
Kelly
Code:
Sub RunImpromptuReport(strCatalog As String, strReport As String, strFile As String, _
Optional strPrompt As String, _
Optional strDatabaseUserId As String = "", _
Optional strDatabasePassword As String = "", _
Optional strCatalogUserId As String = "", _
Optional strCatalogPassword As String = "", _
Optional bPrintIt As Boolean = False)
On Error GoTo Err_RunImpromptu
Dim objImpApp As Object
Dim objImpRep As Object
Set objImpApp = CreateObject("Impromptu.Application")
Set objImpRep = CreateObject("Impromptu.Application")
objImpApp.OpenCatalog strCatalog, strDatabaseUserId, strDatabasePassword, _
strCatalogUserId, strCatalogUserId
objImpApp.Visible -1
Set objImpRep = objImpApp.OpenReport(strReport, strPrompt)
objImpRep.RetrieveAll
If bPrintIt Then objImpRep.PrintOut
objImpRep.ExportLotus (strFile)
objImpRep.CloseReport
objImpApp.Quit
Set objImpRep = Nothing
Set objImpApp = Nothing
Exit_RunImpromptu:
Exit Sub
Err_RunImpromptu:
MsgBox Err.Description
Resume Exit_RunImpromptu
End Sub
strFile, True
The code example is using Lotus, but I've tried with both Lotus and Excel to no avail. Any suggestions are appreciated, otherwise I will have to alter the field types using code which I'm not 100% clear on how to do.
Thanks!
Kelly