Friday, May 11, 2012
Selection using ALL, Division, Region, Branch
I've tried several methods of allowing users to make selections of ALL, Region and Branch and came up with a way of doing it but only if the Branches assigned to a Region do no overlap. This has it's obvious limitations and will definitely not work for Customer with a large number of Branches. I was discussing this in one of the Excel classes I was conducting at our User Group meeting in Las Vegas and was asked why I didn't just utilize the available fields in the Branch Item Master file to make this selection. I had thought of this solution previously but could not determine how it could be used. This was because I was limiting myself to using a range of values in my SQL statement. Once I began to consider other ways of accomplishing the goal it seems that the solution came very quickly. Rather than using a range of values it was only necessary to use the OR statement. The statement works like this..... Company = value OR Division = value OR Region = value OR Branch = value. When the parameters values are passed to the MS Query only one is valid, the others are invalid. Such a simple solution and so easy to implement.
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