I have a report that has several sub-reports as well as a sub-report to one of the sub-reports.
The one that concerns me:
rptProgressReport ->rptEmployee (sub of rptProgressReport) -> rptSubEmployeeProject (sub of rptEmployee)
So far everything is generating as needed. Employees list in order, and the sub-report pulls out various project details. Except I need to add together time spent from one table.
tblProject (main table) -> tblProjectHistory (related table to tblProject via projectID->fldProjectID).
tblProjectHistory has the following fields. [historyID],[fldProjectID], [History Information], [History Date], [Time Spent], [Employee].
I need to do a sum of all [Time Spent] for projects that equal what is being displayed and as long as the employee matches and the date is within the specified date range.
Specified date range is via the launching Form (frmReportGeneration) with fields txtStartDate and txtEnd Date.
Sub-report rptSubEmployeeProject has a text box (txtTimeSpent) that I have the following for a control source.
=Sum(DLookUp("[Time Spent]","tblProjectHistory","[Employee]='" & [Reports]![rptEmployee].[txtTempEmployee] & "' AND [History Date] > " & [Forms]![frmReportGeneration].[txtStartDate] & " AND " & [History Date]<" & [Forms]![frmReportGeneration].[txtEndDate] & "))
the rptEmployee field of txtTempEmployee correctly displays the current employee to match in that sub-report.
The problem is I get prompted for each value part of the above code - txtTempEmployee and txtStartDate/txtEndDate, even if I change the report value to be [Reports]![rptProgressReport]![rptEmployee].[txtTempEmployee]
Any idea how to correctly pull variables from the parent report or the first sub-report?
Thank you.
+++++ Update +++++ Okay update/close on this. I ended up needing to do something similar to what was suggested in the accepted answer. I could not get the idea posted to work - but i was able to set tempvars in vba and used those throughout the report/sub-report(s).