A Couple Of Questions
Jun 13, 2005
Hi all
I am new to Access and have just designed a new database and was wondering if anyone could help with a few questions.
1/ I am setting up a Macro to send an e-mail on the change of a form. When the e-mail is generated by Access I get a message from Outlook stating that "A program is trying to automatically send e-mail..." and asks you to confirm that it is ok to go. Is there any way to bypass this check or alternatively send the e-mail from a specific e-mail address rather than the database user.
2/ I have changed the background colours on a number of my forms but the Record Selector's and Scroll Bar stay the standard Access Grey. Is there anyway to change these?
3/ I have used the User Security Wizard to setup users, groups and access but I can't seem to see a way to limit the number of simulateous logins a person can have i.e. I can log in more than once with the same user when I only want to be able to login once. Any ideas?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
JC
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Feb 8, 2007
Hi all,
I'm currently stuck with 2 issues with my database.
1) I have Team (TeamID), Player (PlayerID, CurrentTeamID) & Transfer (TransferID, PlayerID, PrevTeamID, NewTeamID) tables. I got this addTransferRecord form to add transfer records. The Player table has a currentTeamID attribute which is a foreign of TeamID from Team table.
What I'm trying to do is when adding a transfer record via a form and after selecting a particular player from the combobox, I want the prevTeamID combobox.Value to automatically reflect his currentTeamID. Next, after choosing his newTeamID from the combobox, I want the value to be stored in his currentTeamID.
*CurrentTeamID, PrevTeamID & NewTeamID are foreign keys of TeamID
2) I have this LeagueStandings (TeamID, Wins, Losses) table. I've added an expression into the query to calculate the PCT (those basketball fans would know what i mean :) ). The thing is I've been trying to find a way to sort the position and assign rankings to each team where PCT is descending.
Thanks for the help in advance :)
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Nov 4, 2005
Hello everyone, im new here and i have some basic access knowledge, little knowledge about VB. Im looking to create a access database using access 2000 -- I know what I need and how to create most of it, however, I do not know how to do a few things, input for improvement or recommendations are more than welcome... Heres the design
Im doing a fairly simple inventory control database, it will have about 8-10 fields:
FAX# (date)
DATE (date)
NAME (text)
EMP# (number)
UNIT (text)
SIZE (text) (this is static and will be combo box drop down)
GENDER (text) (same as size)
POSITION (text) (same as size)
SENT (date)
AMOUNT (number)
RECEIVED (number)
PO# (text)
I need all of that in a form, which I can do, what i also will need on the form is the current amount which be determined by RECEIVED - AMOUNT, which I need to some how show up on the form (this i dont know how to accomplish) ive been trying to put a formula into a text box like =SUM([RECEIVED]-[AMOUNT]) ... it works okay, unless i copy from excel to the table which the form uses, then it doesnt see the items i copied into the table, only the items that were typed in using the form. I also I need to put like a box below the text boxes which will display a query (which i dont know how to do) -- this box will display a query (ie. if i wanted to filter out all , and only see SIZE = xl GENDER = male and then the box will show up in 'table' form all the people who meet that requirement.)
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= Gender [M/F] Size [XS/S/M/L/XL] Position [K/C/W] =
= Name [ ] Unit [ ] Emp# [ ] =
= =
= Date [ ] Sent [ ] Fax [ ] =
= =
= PO# [ ] Received [ ] =
= ------------------------------------------------------- =
= Search [ ] Amount Left: X =
= ------------------------------------------------------- =
= || || =
= ||---------------------------------------------------|| =
= || || =
= ||---------------------------------------------------|| =
= || || =
= ||---------------------------------------------------|| =
= ------------------------------------------------------- =
==============================================
Thats the best ascii drawing i can do of what invision...
:) Thanks for any help in advance.
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Jul 14, 2006
Okay, I have two questions.
First, if I have a table, and I want to combine two records together, how would I accomplish this? For example, say I have the following table.
NAME SALES
Bill 2000
Jim 500
Ted 1000
And by some miracle of science, Bill and Jim are able to fuse together to become Jill, combining their sales together. So the new table would look ilke this.
NAME SALES
Jill 2500
Ted 1000
My second question is, say I have an extended list of the same table with 30 names and corresponding sales. However, I want to find out Ted's percentage of sales of the TOP 15, not all 30. How can I accomplish this?
Thanks so much in advance for helping out a complete newbie. :)
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Oct 18, 2005
Hi All,
I have finished up a database that I will be using to store code snippets. But I have a couple of nagging questions that have been bothering me.
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In the right hand portion of my dialog I use a subform to display key words for the code. Is there a way to turn off the column and row headers for the form? Also is there a way to have a transparent background for the subform?
In order to add key words I need to open up another form, enter the words there, close that form and then select them from this dialog. It would be nice to be able to add keywords from this form. FYI, there is a many to many relationship between the key words and the code.
Is there a way to show just my dialog when the database is opened and not the rest of the Access application space? I have unchecked everything in the startup options already.
The last thing is I would love to be able to format the code section so that certain pieces of text are formatted. I am going to start messing around with the some of the free rich text controls but is there an out of the box solution that can handle this task? I was thinking about formatting the code in html and then displaying the html. Is this possible from within Access?
Thanks all,
Steve
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Mar 9, 2006
Hi all,
I've played a bit with MS Access 2003 the last week. I've made a form wich should contain information about stores (phone numbers, locations e.g.).
I'm trying to imagine myself (what could be a real) scenario, that way it's easier to give myself practice and tasks :)
As I'm new to MS Access, I'd like you to take a look at my forms. I want to know if there's better ways to do what I have done, and if I have done something wrong.
I also got a couple of questions;
Lets say I want to print one post by clicking on a button, is that hard to implement?
Is it possible to make a button, which exports the form to an .xls -file by clicking on it?
I did make these forms on a computer that had the resolution to 1280/1024, when I tried to open the form on a computer with 1024/768 resolution, the forms won't be displayed in the center of the screen :confused:
I think that's all.. Thanks! :)
Here's the access -file (http://www.home.no/f00b/stores.rar) (180kB) (use winrar to extract it)
I've tried to transalate to forms into english, sorry for the bad english :o
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Jul 24, 2006
Hello again,
I created a form from a query that before loading all the controls asks for the Item ID (parameter). This form has two subforms that depend on another two queries; since I want them to show the info for the same item, all three ask for the Item ID, which can be kind of annnoying and does not look too professional. Is there a way I can get rid of two of the pop-ups and still have the three forms display the info of the same item?
And my second question: After the Item ID is entered 3 times, all the info is displayed on the forms. But, if I click the arrow on the bottom of the form (to supposedly go to the next time...but it should not be possible to do this), a "Enter parameter value" window pops-up (one just like the Item id one), and I have no clue where it came from. I cannot find it in the code; and I really want to get rid of it. I could use all the help I can get.
Thanks in advance.
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Hi all,
I'm building a db to catalogue my prints collection. I'd like to group them in categories. With the examples I found on this site I've been able to include cascading comboboxes in a form and they cascade beautifully (3 categories: maincategory, Subcat1 and Subcat2). Problem is though, I cannot get them to work in combination with a unique record! I have tried all sorts of combinations to link the cascading boxes to the print but they either don't change at all, or my qry returns 0 records. I must be doing something simple wrong but I'm not very experienced and just don't see the solution. I've spent all evening so far and I think it's time for some help.
I've got these tables (there are more tables and fields, but these are the main ones)
Tbl_prints
PrintID
PrintTitle
Tbl_Category
CategoryID
Category
Tbl_SubCat1
SubCatID
SubCat1
TblSubCat2
SubCat2ID
SubCat2
PrintID
The tables are linked by the printIDs.
Now, when I fill in the details for print #1 and then advance 1 record to print #2, (or #3 etc) the comboboxes don't follow.
What would be the solution for this?
Thank
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~Vanepps
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