I know how to modify a 'physical' report with a defined name, and called from a button. But, in Axapta there are some reports called from the print button in the toolbar.
How can one modify a system report like 'sysreportauto'?
The fields shown in the auto report comes from the AutoReport field group on the table.
You can, as a user, change the auto report, by clicking Edit\New, then choose the fields you would like to see.
You can also specify group totals in Select\Sorting, and grand totals in Select\Print options.
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I have a column "full name" in a list and I want to configure drill down for it so that when I click on a particular user's full name, it displays all the bio data of that user from another table.
My requirement is that at the front end, it should show the full names of the users, but when I click on the user's name, it should pass E-mail address of the user for the drill down.
Please need help for doing it.
I'm going to assume you are using a list object. the instructions for a crosstab would be slightly different:
Add the item you want to pass to the drill-through target to your query
In the report page, select the list
Click on the ellipses (...) in the 'Properties' property of the list object
Check the box next to the data item that you added to the query in step 1 and click 'OK'
When you define the drill-through parameters, select 'Pass the data item value' for the method and the data item added to the query in step 1 as the Value.
I have Form1. I have table "Category", now I want to display all CategoryName in to combobox cbbCategory in Form1, the category names data are retrieved from Category table, how can I do this?
There are several ways you can do this, from querying the table into an array, writing as a SQL query, etc and setting up the properties.
What I would suggest for a start is this. Open your form.
Right-click anywhere in the form and pick "Data Environment".
If the category table is NOT already shown in the window, right-click and select Add. It will prompt you to pick a table and select your category table. Then close the data environment.
Now, put a combobox on your form if you have not done so already.
Right-click on the combobox and click "Builder". It will walk you through the selection process to get what you want. Start with picking the table... your category table. Then it has picker next to it to identify which column(s) you want to be displayed in the combobox. If your category table has both an ID and a description, I would pick your description FIRST, then the internal ID column second (so we can hide the second column if you dont want to actually show it).
Click on the second tab for "Style", and to clarify the difference between a "Drop-down Combo" vs "Drop-down List" is that a combo will default show you available choices, but if one is not available, allows a user to manually enter a new one which you might want to allow adding to your master category lookup table. "Drop-down List" is fixed to only allow the user to pick an entry from those available and nothing else.
Next, click on the Layout tab. This allows you to adjust the columns widths to see/hide what it will look like during drop-down mode (just stretch/shrink the columns)
Finally, the "Value" tab. It is asking for which column from those you selected to be available do you want to store behind-the-scenes. If an ID column, so be it... if the description, that's fine too. You can leave the last "Field Name" blank for now and it will just store whatever is selected into the comboboxes "Value" property... from which you can do whatever you need to in next phase of you app.
I am trying to create a report putting a field called contact which has the name of a person. This name is linked directly to another table where I keep all the contacts.
For some strange reason, when I include this name (which in query view displays as the name of the contact), instead of the name appearing, the unique ID number is shown on my report.
As mentioned in the article cited in the above comment, you can use a Combo Box control on your report to do the lookup for you. To see how this can be done, create a new report based on the table containing the lookup field, then drag and drop that field onto the report. That will create a Combo Box control with properties that look something like this:
Row Source: SELECT [Clients].[ID], [Clients].[LastName] FROM Clients;
Bound Column: 1
Column Count: 2
Column Widths: 0";1"
You could use a similar Combo Box control on your actual report to display the client's name rather than their numeric ID value.
Another alternative would be to change the Control Source of the report's Text Box control to have it do a DLookUp() on the table. If the lookup field is named [client] then changing the Control Source of the Text Box to something like
=DLookUp("LastName","Clients","ID=" & [client])
would also work.
I wanted to add to the great answer by Gord:
When using a "web" database (started in Access 2007 I think), you cannot change a report's fields to ComboBox style, nor can you use DLookUp(). (web databases lack a ton of features)
The workaround for this, if you want to create a Web-Report that uses lookup fields, is to create a Web-Query first based on your Web-Table (all the Web-* stuff has a www planet icon over the logo, if you create a new Web-DB in Access 2007+ you'll see what I mean)
So, instead of Table -> Report, you'll have to do W-Table -> W-Query -> W-Report.
Then, the only thing you need to customize to get the data right is the W-Query. Start by trying to reproduce the look in the query to match what you want users to see in the report. Note that here in the query, lookups will work fine (instead of the unique ID's, you get field names like you want). However, this will not carry over to the report. To do that, you gotta get the actual text field name you want into the query:
You should already have one table in your query; start by adding the table that your first lookup field points to. For example, the table I want to print is called Stock_Boards, and it has a lookup field called PCBID_lookup that points to the table Stock_PCBs.
Since you're using lookup fields, there should already be a relationship line between the two tables when you add the second one. If there isn't, something has gone horribly wrong.
Now, see how that line connects two fields on the two different tables? For example, I've got my PCBID_lookup field on my Stock_Boards table, which connects to the ID field on my Stock_PCBs table. If I created a report from this now, PCBID_lookup would be a number, a number that correlates to the ID of a record on Stock_PCBs.
To fix it, I will add the name field I want to show up on the report. In my example, that happens to be a Part Number, rather than the ID. I add the PartNumber field from my Stock_PCBs table to the query, and remove the PCBID_lookup field of the Stock_Boards table from my query.
Since PartNumber is what I want to show up on my report, it effectively replaces the original field (PCBID_lookup)
Repeat for all lookup fields you want in your report.
I had 1 more: I removed the Status field of the Stock_Boards table (which was an ID/Lookup) and added the 'Status' field from the Status table (which was the actual text name)
When finished, your query should look exactly how you want the data to appear, without any special tricks or asking Access to do something unnatural. Save your query, and create a web-report from it. Done!
I'm trying to link 2 reports to achieve the same functionality as with a master form on 2 pages.
table: Student(id, name, address)
MainReport: an interactive report Displaying the ID by using SQL: select id from student;
Functionality: when the ID is selected, open the other report and display the name and address
SubReport: this is a report on an SQL statement. SQL is:
select name, address from student where id = :P24_id;
Go back to the main report, go to edit page, in the region, click on interactive report and go to the report attributes. Scroll down to link column, change link column to link to custom target, set the target page to the SubReport, enter name of P24_id and value of #id# and click apply changes.
Why is this not working? When I load the main report I'm seeing the data, when I click on an ID however and I go to the subReport, I'm seeing Error ERR-1002 Unable to find item ID for item "P24_ID" in application "105".
Can anyone help?
Did you define a page item on page 24 (which seems to be your target page) with the name P24_ID ?
You can not just set a value to some arbitrary variable name. You need to actually have a page item matching the name.
So on page 24 you would need to create a page item P24_ID.
I had created a Crystal Report with some fields like trinno, name, gender, age, etc.......
Then I am going to display the data in the report as usually, but, if we tried to draw the box and insert the columns in that box, it shows only one record. It doesn't show more then one record.
1) What is 'the box'?
2) Are you placing the fields in the right report section?
3) Is your RecordSelectionFormula correct?