>>HEllo! im doing a simple report
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>>report form report1 preview
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>>simple enough. but the odd thing is that in some forms the report...doesnt get reported. i click the button and..nothing happens. Im just wondering if there is any setting that may be preventing that in my form.thanks cause i copy the button to another form and...it reports fine.
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>If there is no records to show, the report will not preview.

yea! i had some table issues.thanks!
but also uhum
i can do

do case 
case thisform.optiongroup.value=1
report form report1 for ((app.First_name="PEter Monica")) NOCONSOLE PREVIEW))

but is there a way i can do an error message or a message box in the event PEter Monica doesnt exist? like...an else? i kno the logic but im not to sure how to implement that with a report. Unless if i do a query and select every one i(in a table /cursor) want to and just do a normal report?