I think you are over reacting, but I can understand some confusion on your part.
The mechanics of automating the individual reports for the active associates within a given week are relatively simple.
What Micron highlighted, and I agree, is that your data may be inaccurate and/or missing. things/incomplete.
Have you validated the input data? If associates enter data, how do you know there are no typos, or missing values? That's the more difficult part.
Have you considered a test plan where you know the test data, the error conditions to be checked, and then run a sample set of data through your routine to ensure only good/validated data gets to the reports, and errors are gathered so corrections can be made? This kind of testing uses good, bad and missing data....
As for a tutorial, it depends on how much of your database you have designed and coded yourself.
Here is a small routine to mock up a loop through the Associates and show the basic logic to automate the process.
It is simply printing a line for each individual, but it can be extended to Run your required report.
Code:
' ----------------------------------------------------------------
' Procedure Name: showAutoProcess
' Purpose: Demo logic to loop through a recordset based on a Table of Associates
' and show where/how custom reports for each associate would be generated.
' Procedure Kind: Sub
' Procedure Access: Public
' Author: Jack
' Date: 04-Jan-19
' ----------------------------------------------------------------
Sub showAutoProcess()
10 On Error GoTo showAutoProcess_Error
Dim db As DAO.Database
Dim rs As DAO.Recordset
Dim iCnt As Integer
20 Set db = CurrentDb
'Limit this test to Associates whose lastname begins with B or C.
30 Set rs = db.OpenRecordset(" Select aLastname & ', '& aFirstname as xFullName " _
& " FROM tblAssociateList where aLastname >= 'B' and aLastname <= 'C' " _
& " Order By aLastName, aFirstName ;")
40 Do While Not rs.EOF
' Code to set up the Report parameters for the individual would go here
' DoCmd.OpenReport ReportName,,, with parameters
50 Debug.Print "Create the weekly report for: " & rs!xFullname
60 iCnt = iCnt + 1
70 rs.MoveNext
80 Loop
Debug.Print " Total records created: " & iCnt
90 On Error GoTo 0
100 Exit Sub
showAutoProcess_Error:
110 MsgBox "Error " & Err.Number & " (" & Err.Description & ") in procedure showAutoProcess, line " & Erl & "."
End Sub
Sample output from routine
Code:
Create the weekly report for: Ball, Antoine
Create the weekly report for: Banta, Ron
Create the weekly report for: Barko, Jacob
Create the weekly report for: Barnett, John
Create the weekly report for: Blankenship, Darrell
Create the weekly report for: borko, jacob
Create the weekly report for: Brooks, Ronald
Create the weekly report for: Brown, Jeremy
Create the weekly report for: Caballero, Jose
Create the weekly report for: Camacho, Antonio
Create the weekly report for: Carson, Daylon
Create the weekly report for: Cooper, Octavious
Total records created: 12
I added module 2 to your file.