Report tables names

[Jose Lopes]

Hello everyone.

I’m using a report from a query that works with two tables and I need to see
in this report the names of the two tables used. How can I achieve this?

 

[Allen Browne]

If the RecordSource of the report is the name of a query (e.g. Query1), you
could write some code to examine the source query's fields.

Something like this:

Private Sub Report_Open(Cancel As Integer)
Dim db As DAO.Database
Dim qdf As DAO.QueryDef
Dim fld As DAO.Field
Dim strQuery As String

strQuery = Me.RecordSource
Set db = CurrentDb()
Set qdf = db.QueryDefs(strQuery)
For Each fld In qdf.Fields
Debug.Print fld.Name & ": " & fld.SourceTable & "." &
fld.SourceField
Next

Set fld = Nothing
Set qdf = Nothing
Set db = Nothing
End Sub

 

[Jeff Boyce]

Jose

In a "user-friendly" application, you'd probably want to shield the users
from needing to know anything about the table structure. What will knowing
the tables in a (printed) report allow you or your users to do?

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Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Access MVP

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[KARL DEWEY]

On 9 Sep 2008 it was suggest that should normalize your data.

So I think your database is still not normalized in that your table names
include your data like '2009 Monthly Budgets' or 'January 2010 Expenses.'