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    How to display multiple values from a single field "in line" instead of as a sort/group section?

    I'm new to Access (and this forum), so I'm hoping this is a simple problem to solve

    We are a manufacturer that works with numerous Parent Companies.

    Each Parent Company operates under a unique DBA name for us.



    Under that DBA Name, each Parent Company operates one or more different Locations.

    I'm trying to create a contact directory report that shows one instance of the DBA Name/Parent Company contact info, and then a list of the locations they operate.

    Here's the current design view of my report:

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    Here's what I'm trying to get it to look like. Current view on top, desired view beneath that:

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    Any suggestions? If I need to upload more info or images, let me know!

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    I don't know if this will help, but here are the relationships.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pbaldy View Post
    Thank you! I don't really understand much of that, though. I'm taking it on faith by copying and pasting without really knowing why or what I'm doing. (Sort of the story of my life, actually....)

    I copied and compiled the VBA code from that page as instructed.

    I then went into the design of the form and added a new text box as a test.

    But -- I don't know what to put in the Control Source field in the text box properties.

    The link you posted had one example:

    Code:
    =ConcatRelated("OrderDate", "tblOrders", "CompanyID = " & [CompanyID])
    How do I customize what's in between the parentheses to match my field name [Location_Name] and also preferred layout (stacked rather than comma separated)?

    In my case, [Location_Name] is what I want to concatenate, and nothing else.

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    Note that I'd prefer to stack the names, but I can live with comma separated values when displayed.

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    Try

    =ConcatRelated("Location_Name", "Locations", "[DBA Name]= '" & [DBA Name] & "'")

    using the actual object names. If that works, I think I've been able to change the delimiter to

    vbCrLf

    or maybe

    Chr(13) & Chr(10)

    but I'd have to experiment.
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    I got ConcatRelated to work, but as you can see, Access is still doubling up the entry as though it were grouping by location.

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    That's coming from the source of the report. It should be a query that only returns one instance of each DBA name.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pbaldy View Post
    That's coming from the source of the report. It should be a query that only returns one instance of each DBA name.
    Sorry to be such a noob, but I don't understand what you're saying. My apologies if my learning curve is steeper than you're used to! I imagine it's like a surgeon having to explain how to put on a band-aid

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    Would it help if I uploaded the actual database (with only a few records of test data)? I can certainly do that.

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    No worries, I'm talking about the record source property of the report. Yes, it would help to be able to play with the database.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pbaldy View Post
    Yes, it would help to be able to play with the database.
    I really appreciate the advice. I've attached a copy of the database. It's all fake data, but all tables and the report are actual.

    I added:
    • 3 companies with 1 location
    • 1 company with 5 locations
    • 1 company with 2 locations


    Access Forum Sample DB.zip

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    Try making these 3 changes:

    Change the report record source to (I dropped the locations table):

    SELECT [DBA Name].DBA_Name, [Parent Company].Parent_Company, [Parent Company].Parent_Street_Address, [Parent Company].Parent_City, [Parent Company].Parent_State, [Parent Company].Parent_Postal_Code, [Parent Company].Parent_Country, [Parent Company].Parent_Office_Phone, [Parent Company].Parent_Website FROM [DBA Name] INNER JOIN [Parent Company] ON [DBA Name].[DBA_Name] = [Parent Company].[DBA_Name];

    Run the report, see if it works like you want. If so, now we'll put on separate lines like you wanted. Change the textbox Can Grow property to yes and paste this function instead of what's there (my changes in red):

    Code:
    Public Function ConcatRelated(strField As String, _
        strTable As String, _
        Optional strWhere As String, _
        Optional strOrderBy As String, _
        Optional strSeparator = ", ") As Variant
    On Error GoTo Err_Handler
        'Purpose:   Generate a concatenated string of related records.
        'Return:    String variant, or Null if no matches.
        'Arguments: strField = name of field to get results from and concatenate.
        '           strTable = name of a table or query.
        '           strWhere = WHERE clause to choose the right values.
        '           strOrderBy = ORDER BY clause, for sorting the values.
        '           strSeparator = characters to use between the concatenated values.
        'Notes:     1. Use square brackets around field/table names with spaces or odd characters.
        '           2. strField can be a Multi-valued field (A2007 and later), but strOrderBy cannot.
        '           3. Nulls are omitted, zero-length strings (ZLSs) are returned as ZLSs.
        '           4. Returning more than 255 characters to a recordset triggers this Access bug:
        '               http://allenbrowne.com/bug-16.html
        Dim rs As DAO.Recordset         'Related records
        Dim rsMV As DAO.Recordset       'Multi-valued field recordset
        Dim strSql As String            'SQL statement
        Dim strOut As String            'Output string to concatenate to.
        Dim lngLen As Long              'Length of string.
        Dim bIsMultiValue As Boolean    'Flag if strField is a multi-valued field.
        
        'Initialize to Null
        ConcatRelated = Null
        
        'Build SQL string, and get the records.
        strSql = "SELECT " & strField & " FROM " & strTable
        If strWhere <> vbNullString Then
            strSql = strSql & " WHERE " & strWhere
        End If
        If strOrderBy <> vbNullString Then
            strSql = strSql & " ORDER BY " & strOrderBy
        End If
        Set rs = DBEngine(0)(0).OpenRecordset(strSql, dbOpenDynaset)
        'Determine if the requested field is multi-valued (Type is above 100.)
        bIsMultiValue = (rs(0).Type > 100)
        
        'Loop through the matching records
        Do While Not rs.EOF
            If bIsMultiValue Then
                'For multi-valued field, loop through the values
                Set rsMV = rs(0).Value
                Do While Not rsMV.EOF
                    If Not IsNull(rsMV(0)) Then
                        'strOut = strOut & rsMV(0) & strSeparator
                        strOut = strOut & rsMV(0) & vbCrLf
                    End If
                    rsMV.MoveNext
                Loop
                Set rsMV = Nothing
            ElseIf Not IsNull(rs(0)) Then
                'strOut = strOut & rs(0) & strSeparator
                strOut = strOut & rs(0) & vbCrLf
            End If
            rs.MoveNext
        Loop
        rs.Close
        
        'Return the string without the trailing separator.
        lngLen = Len(strOut) - Len(strSeparator)
        If lngLen > 0 Then
            ConcatRelated = Left(strOut, lngLen)
        End If
    
    Exit_Handler:
        'Clean up
        Set rsMV = Nothing
        Set rs = Nothing
        Exit Function
    
    Err_Handler:
        MsgBox "Error " & Err.Number & ": " & Err.Description, vbExclamation, "ConcatRelated()"
        Resume Exit_Handler
    End Function
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    Bingo! That worked. In the end, I had to change the layout of the fields to get it all to display properly, but I'm happy with the compromise.

    Here's how it looked when I kept the "Locations" list in its original place on the right side -- you can see it was pushing down the City/State/Zip field to accommodate the extra location names:

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    To work around that issue, I relocated the "Locations" field:

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    Thank you so much for your help!!
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    Happy to help!
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