Counting Subgroups (access xp)

[tom]

Hi All,

I have a Access report with 2 levels of grouping:

* Group 1: Company
* Group 2: Department
* Detail: Person

In the header of group 1, I would like to show a count of the number
of group 2's within group 1. In other words, for ACME Widgets, I want
to see that this report contains data for 3 Departments.

Is this possible?

Thanks,
-Tom

sample:
========================
ACME WIDGETS. 3 Departments
* Design Department
- Joe
- Fred
* Packaging Department
- Mary
- Mark
* Fun Department
- Bozo
MINICORP. 1 Department.
* Super Department
- Al
- Mary
- Sam
- Joe
- Bill
- Theresa

 

[Duane Hookom]

You can create a separate totals query that Groups By Company and
Department. Name the query "qgrpCoDept". Then create another totals query
based on qgrpCoDept that Groups By Co and Counts Department. Save this query
and add it to the record source of your current report. Join the Company
fields and drop your CountOfDept into the query grid so you can display it
in the report.

 

[Baisong Wei[MSFT]]

Hi Tom,

Thank you for using MSDN Newsgroup! It's my pleasure to assist you with
your issue.

To show the amount of department within a company in your report, another
thinking could be: In the Company Header, you have an Text. You have a
global variable x, the original value is 0. In the event of
GroupHeader1_Format ( in my test it is for the grouping of the department
), x=x+1. In the event of GroupHeader0_Format ( Which is the grouping of
Company), the Text you want to show the number of Department will be set to
x, and then x will be reset to 0 for next company.

Hope this helps. For any more questions, please feel free to post new
message here and I am ready to help!

Best regards

Baisong Wei
Microsoft Online Support