Please help: Can not "Filter" forms in Runtime, only in Full Acces

[Chris v.]

I'm relatively new to Access 2007 and have written applications for a
non-porfit. When developing applications in Full Access, I can filter forms
by right-clicking a control, but in runtime the users can not filter. Has
this feature been disabled? Can I enable it? How? (One solution is out of the
question: They don't have the $ to purchase full Access for all the data
entry people and their managers.) Any suggestions?

[bhicks11 via AccessMonster.com]

You can't do everything in runtime that you can with the full version. Not
in 2003 or in 2007.

Bon

http://www.dataplus-svc.com

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[Rick Brandt]

It is not that "filtering" is disabled in the runtime, it is that the
built-in right-click menus are. You have to provide your own.
Unfortunately while custom right-click menus were trivial to create in
older versions they are not in 2007.

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[Klatuu]

You should be able to filter the form. Post the code where you are trying to
set the filter, please and a bit more detail on what and how you are doing it.
--
Dave Hargis, Microsoft Access MVP

[Chris v.]

I don't have any "code." I don't know VBA -- but I've started reading a book!
On the form, I have the property "Allow filters" set to "Yes", but Runtime
seems to not have the filters available as in full Access 2007. Do I have to
write specific parameter queries for each field on the form? (Note: the
"right-click" filters on full Access are wonderful; with a variety of choices
for date fields, along with multiple choices in text boxes).

[AccessVandal via AccessMonster.com]

Runtime disable that feature by default so that your user will not mess up
your forms. You'll have to create your own custom filtering. Take a look at
Allen Browne site on this.

http://allenbrowne.com/ser-62.html

Chris v. wrote:
>I don't have any "code." I don't know VBA -- but I've started reading a book!
>On the form, I have the property "Allow filters" set to "Yes", but Runtime
>seems to not have the filters available as in full Access 2007. Do I have to
>write specific parameter queries for each field on the form? (Note: the
>"right-click" filters on full Access are wonderful; with a variety of choices
>for date fields, along with multiple choices in text boxes).

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[Albert D. Kallal]

"Rick Brandt" <rickb...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:15:01 -0700, Chris v. wrote:

>
> It is not that "filtering" is disabled in the runtime, it is that the
> built-in right-click menus are. You have to provide your own.
> Unfortunately while custom right-click menus were trivial to create in
> older versions they are not in 2007.

Actually, right click menus in 2007 can be created with macros. I think for
new users, they likely find using a macro is less learning then building
right click menus in previous versions of ms-access.

For 2007, you go just crate a menu macro as:

Macro Name Action Command
Filter by Selection RunCommand FilterBySelection
Filter By Not Selection RunCommand FilterExcludingSelection
Remove Filter Runcommand RemoveFilterSort

Save the above as a macro called MyMenu

Now, create a macro that calls the above menu macro:

eg:
Action Menu Name Menu Macro name Status Bar text
AddMenu MyRightClick MyMenu My Edit

save the above macro as say mEdit

Then, in the forms property sheet, in the "other" table, simply set the
shortcut menu as mEdit

You are done!

That form will now have filtering in the runtime.

So we only written 4 lines of macro code, and we have a filtering "right
click" context menu. I think most new users did struggle with the old menu
customize feature, especially when trying to build a right menu. So, perhaps
the old system was easier for some, but hey, the above is not a too hard of
an solution...

And, for adding cut + paste to the above, we could go:

Macro Name Action Command
Cut RunCommand Cut
Copy RunCommand Copy
Paste RunCommand Paste
Filter by Selection RunCommand FilterBySelection
Filter By Not Selection RunCommand FilterExcludingSelection
Remove Filter Runcommand RemoveFilterSort

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Edmonton, Alberta Canada
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[bhicks11 via AccessMonster.com]

Thanks for this Albert. Didn't know it and it is definately useful.

Bonnie
http://www.dataplus-svc.com

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[a_li_nway]

I've gotten this menu to work as you've described (as well as other things), but is it possible to have an entry that toggles the default FiltersMenu on the selection?

The menu I'm talking about, just to be clear, is located in 'full' access by going to Home - Filters and Sorts - big Filter button, which will toggle the FiltersMenu on the currently selected field.

I know the menu exists in run-time, as I've create a menu bar with the button and it works exactly as it should. The only problem is that I cannot for the life of me figure out how to make a macro that does the same.

Any help on that matter would be greatly appreciated!

Albert D. Kallal wrote:

Re: Please help: Can not "Filter" forms in Runtime, only in Full Acces
25-Sep-09

You are done!

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On Thursday, September 24, 2009 9:15 PM
Chris v. wrote:

Please help: Can not "Filter" forms in Runtime, only in Full Acces
I am relatively new to Access 2007 and have written applications for a

non-porfit. When developing applications in Full Access, I can filter forms
by right-clicking a control, but in runtime the users can not filter. Has
this feature been disabled? Can I enable it? How? (One solution is out of the

question: They do not have the $ to purchase full Access for all the data

entry people and their managers.) Any suggestions?

On Thursday, September 24, 2009 9:23 PM
bhicks11 via AccessMonster.com wrote:

You can't do everything in runtime that you can with the full version.

You cannot do everything in runtime that you can with the full version. Not

in 2003 or in 2007.

Bon

http://www.dataplus-svc.com

Chris v. wrote:

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On Thursday, September 24, 2009 10:19 PM
Klatuu wrote:

You should be able to filter the form.
You should be able to filter the form. Post the code where you are trying to
set the filter, please and a bit more detail on what and how you are doing it.
--
Dave Hargis, Microsoft Access MVP

"Chris v." wrote:

On Thursday, September 24, 2009 11:12 PM
Chris v. wrote:

I don't have any "code." I don't know VBA -- but I've started reading a book!

I do not have any "code." I do not know VBA -- but I have started reading a book!

On the form, I have the property "Allow filters" set to "Yes", but Runtime
seems to not have the filters available as in full Access 2007. Do I have to
write specific parameter queries for each field on the form? (Note: the
"right-click" filters on full Access are wonderful; with a variety of choices
for date fields, along with multiple choices in text boxes).

"Klatuu" wrote:

On Friday, September 25, 2009 5:35 AM
Rick Brandt wrote:

Re: Please help: Can not "Filter" forms in Runtime, only in Full Acces

It is not that "filtering" is disabled in the runtime, it is that the
built-in right-click menus are. You have to provide your own.
Unfortunately while custom right-click menus were trivial to create in
older versions they are not in 2007.

--
Rick Brandt, Microsoft Access MVP
Email (as appropriate) to...
RBrandt at Hunter dot com

On Friday, September 25, 2009 6:02 AM
AccessVandal via AccessMonster.com wrote:

Runtime disable that feature by default so that your user will not mess upyour
Runtime disable that feature by default so that your user will not mess up
your forms. You'll have to create your own custom filtering. Take a look at
Allen Browne site on this.

http://allenbrowne.com/ser-62.html

Chris v. wrote:

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On Friday, September 25, 2009 8:16 AM
Albert D. Kallal wrote:

Re: Please help: Can not "Filter" forms in Runtime, only in Full Acces

You are done!

On Friday, September 25, 2009 9:03 AM
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Bonnie
http://www.dataplus-svc.com

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[a_li_nway]

So I've been working on this to see if I could get it to work...I've found a workaround that works.

I've create a Module (RightClick) and a Function inside the module (FiltersMenu). The code of the Function is simply this:
CommandBars.ExecuteMso ("FiltersMenu")

This will run the default 'code' that opens the FiltersMenu MSO. I then create a row in my Right Click macro as follows:
Macro Name = Filter and Sort (this can be anything, of course)
Action = RunCode
Arguments = FiltersMenu()

My next question is:
Is this the only and/or correct way to be doing this? Or is there a more direct/correct way that keeps it all in the Macro?

A_Li_N Way wrote:

FiltersMenu
12-Jan-10

I've gotten this menu to work as you've described (as well as other things), but is it possible to have an entry that toggles the default FiltersMenu on the selection?

The menu I'm talking about, just to be clear, is located in 'full' access by going to Home - Filters and Sorts - big Filter button, which will toggle the FiltersMenu on the currently selected field.

I know the menu exists in run-time, as I've create a menu bar with the button and it works exactly as it should. The only problem is that I cannot for the life of me figure out how to make a macro that does the same.

Any help on that matter would be greatly appreciated!

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Thank you for this!