Report by month

I have some reports I need to run on monthly activities. Until now I've had
the parameters in the Date field in my query "Between [First Date] and
[Second Date]".
Is there a better way of selecting date parameters?
Specifically, is there a way to simply specify a previous month and also
current month to date?

Bill Neilsen wrote:

I have some reports I need to run on monthly activities. Until now I've had
the parameters in the Date field in my query "Between [First Date] and
[Second Date]".
Is there a better way of selecting date parameters?
Specifically, is there a way to simply specify a previous month and also
current month to date?


A common approach it to use a form button to launch the
report. You can then use one ot two text boxes to allow
users to specify the month or a date range. The trick with
this approach is to use the OpenReport method's
WhereCondition argument to apply the filter so neither the
report nor its record source table/query is aware of the
filtering criteria.

If all you want is to specify a month number in a text box
on the form, the code in the button"s Click event procedure
woul;d look something like:

Dim stCriteria As string
If Is Null(Me.textbox) Then
MsgBox "Please specify the month number"
Else
stCriteria = "Month(datefield) = " & Me.textbox
DoCmd.OpenReport "reportname", acPreview, , stCriteria
End If

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Marsh
MVP [MS Access]