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    fahnoubi is offline Novice
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    Query criteria from public variable or from form, when form is closed

    Hello,




    After a few hours searching, I couldn't find any solution to this little problem I'm having.


    I have a query that retrieves one of its criteria from a form. I have referenced correctly the value on the form from the query, and it works, but what I wanted to do is a bit more complicated: when the form is closed, I want to launch the query with a "default value".


    I tried to do it in 2 different ways:
    a) Defining an "IIf" at the query criteria: I would need a function that checks if the form from which I retrieve the values is open.
    b) Defining public variables with a default value, which would be changed from the form: I don't know where/when to initialize the value of the variable.




    Does anyone have a better idea on how to do this?


    TL;DR: Query gets criteria from form when it's open. If form is closed, query uses default value. HELP!

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    rpeare is offline VIP
    Windows XP Access 2003
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    What are you doing with the query. Is it the basis for a report? or are you viewing the query within your access application.


    If the query is the data source for some other item you can alter recordsources. If you are actually viewing the contents of the query directly in your application or, say, trying to export the resulting query there's no simple way to do what you want other than having two distinct queries, then when you click your button to run your query when your form is not open if opens QueryA instead of QueryB.

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