Due to the ongoing bulk of regular spam posts that this forum receives, and based on similar activity on other forums, I think it would seem to be that the reason for this is the use of the word 'General' in the forum's title. In my experience it is the areas marked this way that generate the most spam, be it 'General Discussion' or otherwise.
So, in order to try and combat this, I was thinking that it may be in the forum's interests to change the name of this section. If it's what spambots are geared up to search for then it makes sense to shield the target from them.
My thinking is that, were I to change the name, the forum would be best placed at the base of the 'Microsoft Access Discussion' area and renamed to 'Other Issues'.
Thus, my plan would be to have the 'Microsoft Access Forum' ordered in this way:
Database Design
Tables
Queries
Forms
Reports
Macros
Modules
Other Issues
I'd appreciate others thoughts on this so reply away. There's a poll at the top of this thread if you just want to post a yes/know/don't know sort of response. The poll will only be active for one week, starting now.
I have two tables (one table current three week data, and another for all the project data), the three week data table lists tasks by IDs and the task status (Ahead of Schedule, Complete, Delayed, Late, On Time, Postponed) all project data lists tasks by IDs and the task category (Plan Tasks, Plan Task for Next Two Weeks, Milestone)
The following query that returns a percentage of a task that has a given status and is apart of a specific category (so for example the query would give me the Percent of all Tasks [in both tables] that are Ahead of Schedule and marked as a Plan Tasks)
Code:SELECT FormatPercent(subQuery1.Instances/subQuery2.Total) AS PlanTasks_that_are_AheadofScheduleFROM [SELECT COUNT(ThreeWeekStatus.Status) AS Instances FROM RawData, ThreeWeekStatus WHERE RawData.OutlineNumber=ThreeWeekStatus.TaskId AND ThreeWeekStatus.Status="Ahead of Schedule" AND RawData.Category="Plan Tasks"]. AS subQuery1, [SELECT COUNT(ThreeWeekStatus.Status) AS Total FROM RawData, ThreeWeekStatus WHERE RawData.OutlineNumber=ThreeWeekStatus.TaskId]. AS subQuery2;
now I have many copies of this query for each of the following status and category Percent of all Tasks [in both tables] that are Ahead of Schedule and marked as a Plan Tasks Percent of all Tasks [in both tables] that are Complete and marked as a Plan Tasks Percent of all Tasks [in both tables] that are Delayed and marked as a Plan Tasks Percent of all Tasks [in both tables] that are Late and marked as a Plan Tasks Percent of all Tasks [in both tables] that are On Time as a Plan Tasks Percent of all Tasks [in both tables] that are Postponed as a Plan Tasks
Percent of all Tasks [in both tables] that are Ahead of Schedule and marked as a Plan Task for Next Two Weeks Percent of all Tasks [in both tables] that are Complete and marked as a Plan Task for Next Two Weeks Percent of all Tasks [in both tables] that are Delayed and marked as a Plan Task for Next Two Weeks Percent of all Tasks [in both tables] that are Late and marked as a Plan Task for Next Two Weeks Percent of all Tasks [in both tables] that are On Time as a Plan Task for Next Two Weeks Percent of all Tasks [in both tables] that are Postponed as a Plan Task for Next Two Weeks
Percent of all Tasks [in both tables] that are Ahead of Schedule and marked as a Milestone Percent of all Tasks [in both tables] that are Complete and marked as a Milestone Percent of all Tasks [in both tables] that are Delayed and marked as a Milestone Percent of all Tasks [in both tables] that are Late and marked as a Milestone Percent of all Tasks [in both tables] that are On Time as a Milestone Percent of all Tasks [in both tables] that are Postponed as a Milestone
as you can see having 18 similar queries is not real efficient, how can I restructure my query so I can get it to simply to one query with the following output Name | Ahead of Schedule | Complete | Delayed | Late | On Time | Postponed Plan Tasks | % of tasks | % of tasks | % of tasks | % of tasks | % of tasks | % of tasks Plan Task for Next Two Weeks | % of tasks | % of tasks | % of tasks | % of tasks | % of tasks | % of tasks Milestone | % of tasks | % of tasks | % of tasks | % of tasks | % of tasks | % of tasks Total | % of tasks | % of tasks | % of tasks | % of tasks | % of tasks | % of tasks
Several of my databases is a little slow and that puzzles me since there isn't over 200mb of data yet :confused:
Is there any advantage in storing data on an oracle server and will it speed up things or is there other things I can do?
Perhaps someone in here would be so kind to look at my database and give some advice on the structure and possible changes to improve performance?
Perhaps I should add that I don't know much about other database tools so I'm shooting in blind here.
So if anybody will look at my database and see if he/she can optimize it I will be happy. I can leave little data inside to allow You to see the output - if needed.
I'm not very technical with access (not yet) so things might be done differently than I do to speed up things
Like I stated on the title, this forum got me into trouble. By following the reading in this forum and some recommendations from the regular users I have created thre database for the place I work at. now they want me to be the official DB admin! :eek:
So now I'm coming back to you guys for more advice... :rolleyes: what reading should I do to better my Access knowledge over all.
Any recommendation is welcome.
I have already contacted th local college and they do have a distant learning class for Access and I will be taking it the next semester, but I would like to do some reading into becoming a REAL Access programmer with a solid foundation.
There must be some good books out there to purchase to get me started. So all are welcome to give me some feedback.
I have been tasked to design a Forum Database using ASP, could someone please point me in the right direction as to the design for table structure for this.
I know that the user will be looking at a web front end which in turn will be accessing the Access Database.
I'm trying to design a system for an electronics shop. I have two tables, one called Products and another called Suppliers. The Products table has the following fields- - 1) Product ID 2) Supplier ID 3) ProductName 4) Information 5) Price
The Suppliers table has the following fields- - 1) Supplier ID 2) Company 3) Address 1 4) Address 2 5) Address 3 6) Town 7) County 8) Post Code 9) Country 10) PhoneNumber 11) FaxNumber
Basically I want to create a form to show the supplier name and ID and then implement a sub- forum which shows all the product details for that supplier. How do I do this? Do I have to use a query? Thanks
Recently I moved the back end of some databases I develop and maintain to a SQL Server for speed and stability purposes. Whilst this forum has been great for digging out answers to various Access problems I encounter, I persume there are some similar forums dealing with SQL. Has anyone got some recommendations ?????
Did you know that you can use Google to search the Access Forum and get a more refined result?
I find that the search facility provided is excellent at searching for single words. However it does not provide the sophistication of tools like Google for searching for exact phrases.
To get this sophistication do this:
Open Googles advanced page: (http://www.google.co.uk/advanced_search?hl=en)
The first section of this page is shaded blue, and contains the following items:
with all of the words with the exact phrase with at least one of the words without the words
You can add words to varying degrees of sophistication for your search.
This is the important bit! Just below this blue shaded area there is another section, go to the fifth item down in this section which is:"Domain" also make sure "Only" is selected. In the next text box (to the right of Only) place the domain you want to search in, this case you want to search the Access Forum so place in this box the following:
http://www.access-programmers.co.uk/forums
Now give it a try! Try searching for: "Date Selection" (without the Quotes)
If you search for this with the above Google method, you will get 90 results, If you search this result with the Forum search then you will get over 300 results.
Caveats: Your search will only return items within the access-programmers site, and only items that are allowed to be indexed by Google.
Hi, I have been using access for quiet awhile (I learned it 2 months ago). I want to have a online business (using Dreamweaver and Access) but, I want to organize my data and I want to figure out how (when you go onto a website say target.com) to make the username and password in Access (Like when you register for an account, you put in your username, password, email address...ect. and the you make your account and then when you put in you username and password again to log into your account (I want to know how to do that)). Another thing, when the person logs into a account and wants to buy a product how do you do that in access. Any answers can help me. You could send me a link to a webpage that tells me how to do this stuff. Any Tips?:)
hey all, i'm making a database to catalogue a whole bunchs of projects of mine. i have a few questions but i'll ask one for now. i have made a form with a check box and i want it so that once that check box is clicked, another element appears or becomes un-grayed or something. basically if the check box is checked then i have to specify a file location for the file that i'm confirming exists. (if that makes sense)
How can i make all my forums fill my screen? so dont have to recreate them? so they are not just tiny boxes. as originaly designed? I looked in hope that there maybe have been something in the startup drop drop down, but i was't so luck. also tried to select whole forum and group and name the whole thing bigger by dragging the resize command. but this just messed the whole forums up so i did't save changes.
I created a Query to calculate an over all rateing useing other data that was already in the database. The Query worked out perfectly, and I then wanted to put the one field that gave me the overall rateing that I just calculated and put it into a form. So I added the Query with the rateing into the one that made up the other form and added the field to the Query. The problem was that when i went into that form and added the field, it made it so that i could no longer change any of the data on that forum. I thought that it might have something to do with the fact that there were no fields with math in them in that form untill i added the over all rateing one, could that have messed it up? Please send me some seggestions because I havent a clue at what could be worng. Thank you, Ben
i have been to about four forums now and No One has been able to make this work it can be done as i have seen it from the access sample database (Order Entry). I have been informed that this forum has the best of the best in access guru's, this problem has had me stuck for 2 weeks i don't normally asked for help but it has breached my knewledge base and now its time for an expert to have a look at it.
I have had many suggestions but none have worked, below is the link to the Order Entry database so you can see what i am trying to acheive and also another link of my actual database as it stands.
The problem is that i have a form called Customers this is displayed when the database is opened, the form has a subform called QuoteSelector that holds all the quotes if there are no quotes then the user is then able to add a new customer and then create a quote when they click the Create New Quote button.
Then another form called Quotes opens this holds the data form the quote and also has a subform called QuoteBuilder, this form holds all the materials that have been selected for the quote.
Now when i click the Create Invoice button that is on the Customers page i want all the information from these forms to be displayed in my report called Invoice. I have already created the Invoice i am just having trouble in passing the CustomerID and the QuoteID to the Invoice or i think this is what is needed in order to make all the data display.
If you can help this would be great as no other forum has been able to and this one has the best reputation for programmers with access so well i will have to see it, but please take a look at the Order Entry database and see how the Invoice is generated you will notice a box pop up letting the user enter more details i don't want this i just want the invoice to come up and then the user can print it.
Thanks in advance and hope this can be done:
This is the sample database Order Entry
Order Entry Download (http://www.weblogics.co.uk/Order Entry1.zip)
This is the Database I NEED to create the invoice for:
Database FOR Edit (http://www.weblogics.co.uk/quotes.zip)
Yea yea I know, another one... But the way I see is that I haven't asked them all so its ok... :p
Right basically, I only want to allow input of Y N or P into a text field. I thought it would be best to do it with an onkeypress event as I know of no way to block certain characters in a text field with an input mask.. this is what I came up with but it doesnt seem to work...
If Not KeyPress=78 Or Not KeyPress=80 Or Not KeyPress=89 Then KeyPress = 0
Sorry to add to the email threads, already posted on this forum. I have already searched on the forum for the relevant help but im still struggling. As am a newb when it comes to this sort of thing, and everythink is an on going learning curve.
Background, i work for a architectural firm, my boss would like the database to send out automated emails, to the local planning authority.
I have a query called "ApplicationEmailCouncilQuery" in this i have the following fields. ApplicationProjectID, ApplicationSubmitted, ApplicationRef, ApplicationDecisiondate, ApplicationContact, PlannersEmail, ApplicationEmployee, Email.
How do i get access 2k to automatically send out emails to each of the results individually as produced fromt he query, every 2 weeks.
I want the email to use the fields from the query. To: "PlannersEmail" Send: Your Application ref is "ApplicationRef" submitted on "ApplicationSubmitted" Message: To ApplicationContact, Please could you give me an update on the application "ApplicationRef" which we submitted on "ApplicationSubmitted".
Please reply to this following address "Email"
Yours Truly
"ApplicationEmployee"
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Sorry for the long post, any help on the above matter would be greatly appreciated.
I decided to create a switchboard using tools---> DB utilts---> SW manager. i have managed to get this on the front end, altho the first button the contacts does't work properly. when i click it using that i cannot see any of the data that is in the database? but if i go out the switchboard without pressing anything on it. and goto contacts form the data is there?
I Am working on a Access database that will build a excel spread sheet, that will be uploaded to Ebay via file exchange. I am looking to build a forum that will edit parts of a Html text in a column, such as the size and color.
