The very last common post was on Sorting and Grouping in Reports, and that followed a post about Kind & Filter in Forms. This time, we'll go into the new Report View, which provides interactive reports at view time and so improves on the old Print Preview view,
office 2007 serial key sale, which was static. The goal of this feature is to make the report an interactive part of the application in a way you never could before. is simply a new view on reports and a sample report from our Issues tracking app looks like this: image to enlarge) example, the same report looks like this in Print Preview: image to enlarge) can see that the links on Cliff Jones and the Title field are gone in print preview, as they were formatted to show as links only on the screen through a new property. More on that later. seen Layout View for Reports and Forms before. to enlarge) finally the same report in Design View: image to enlarge) Through
The hyperlinks in the report above are actually not real links but are macro actions formatted to look like hyperlinks. To create the macro, you need to go to the Design View, and select the control, then set the Embedded Macro property. Embedded Macros are simply Access macros that are attached to the control, which makes it easier to move them around or update the document. In this example (and in the tracking apps) the macro is attached to the On Click event. You enter the macro editor by clicking on the builder at the right side of the edit next to the On Click event. is quite simple, just pulling up the relevant form and passing in the record ID. Here's the macro editor for the first line of the macro: image to enlarge) second step ("Not IsNull") is the interesting one with the properties that determine which report to show for which record: image to enlarge) as Hyperlink
There is a new property called "Display as Hyperlink" that allows you to format the columns you put macros behind to look like links,
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can select to display only actual hyperlinks as a link (this is the legacy behavior and the default for the property). Alternately you can force non-hyperlinks to show as hyperlinks either all the time (both screen and print) or for the screen only. Formatting for the screen only allows you to show users what can be drilled through without having the hyperlink formatting appear on the printed reviews. and Find
In addition to the drill-through functionality illustrated above,
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windows 7 professional 32 bit, we support a rich set of date filters: image to enlarge) can also apply filters from the Filter button on the ribbon:
again, the filter is applied to whichever column is selected in the report. In this case, the user has selected a the status column and gets standard text filter functionality, with the ability to choose from the existing values or to click on "Text Filters" and create filters with clauses like Contains, Not Contains, and so on. simply launches the standard Find dialog, and allows the user to search for text in the report. Time
The next publish will be on AutoFormats in Access 2007, which have been updated in a big way. There is a range of much more subtle and more contemporary formats to choose from to quickly give your applications a polished look and feel. In addition, now's the time to start running through all the SharePoint functionality,
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