Reports: Passing ‘Order By’ (Access 97, Win 95/98)

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Hi all!

I’m probably having a duh moment, so I’m hoping someone out there can help straighten me out….

I have a form that builds the “WhereCriteria” of both a form and a report.

If I want the sort options to pass through to the form, I can use OpenArgs to pass an Order by value.

If I want the sort options to pass through to the report, what do I do? There is no OpenArgs of the report. I tried including “Order by” in the WhereCriteria statement, but it gives me a syntax error.

Is the only way around this to create a global variable to pass the information?
And, for kicks, if this is true, is it fixed in XP? (countdown has started, 5 days until we convert from 97 to XP)

TIA!

Cecilia 🙂

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Reports have no OpenArgs indeed.

You can set the sort order of the report in the Report_Open event:

Private Sub Report_Open(Cancel As Integer)
Me.OrderBy = Forms![frmMyForm].OrderBy
Me.OrderByOn = True
End Sub

where you must replace frmMyForm by the name of the form you use to set the criteria and sort order.

Note 1: in order to do this, you must *not* specify a sort order in the design of the report (Sorting and Grouping window). A pre-set sorting order will overrule the sorting order you set in code.

Note 2: I have no idea about XP.

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Thanks Hans. I was hoping there was some other way that I had forgotten, but I guess that’s it. Bummer.

Ceci 🙂

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Access XP reports have an OpenArgs property, although I haven’t tried to use it.

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