Check boxes to run queries

On Fri, 28 May 2010 10:17:15 -0400, "Al Campagna"
wrote:

I'm afraid you missed the requirement of selecting multiple countries.

-Tom.
Microsoft Access MVP


Natalie,
Check out Option Groups in Access Help.
It allows you to group those 5 check boxes into a group, where
only one check box can be selected at a time, and gives each selection a
different numeric value. For ex. [optCountry].
The query can then determine that IF optCountry = 1 then it's "USA,"
or IF optCountry = 4 it's "Canada" etc...

BUT...
Now that will work... but it's clumsy... in that the query must
interpret
(using IFs) 5 numeric values to a textual equivalent. What happens when you
have 6 countries? 8 countries?
Each time you'll have to re-"IF" the query for the added numeric values.

I would suggest a combo box instead, (ex. cboCountry) with a Value List
of
all the countries as the RowSource. Then the query can take the combo value
directly in it's
SQL statement.
Country = Forms!SomeFormName!cboCountry
If another country is added... just add it to the combo's Value List,
and that's it...
nothing else to do.