Hello,
I wonder if anybody can help me.
I have a table called ITEM, within ITEM I have three fields ITEM NUMBER (Key Field), Item, Cost,
I have another table called INVOICE ITEMS, Within INVOICE ITEMS I have six Fields, INVOICE NUMBER, ITEM NUMBER, ITEM, UNIT COST, Amount, Total Amount.
I want to use Lookup wizard to complete the fields ITEM NUMBER, ITEM, UNIT COST from the ITEM table.
Is this possible?
Regards
Nathan
I've managed to use the lookup wizard to show me two fields in the drop down list, first name and last name, but when i select a record I can only see the first name in the cell, not both.
Is there a way to display them both together?
I have three fields that I would like to have access the same table using the Lookup Wizard. I am unable to get the query to work.
Example:
The Fruit table has 5 records, let's say: orange, apple, banana, kiwi, strawberry.
The first field -- Fruit1 -- would use the Data Type Lookup Wizard referencing the Fruit table.
The second field -- Fruit2 -- would also use the Data Type Lookup Wizard referencing the Fruit table.
The third field -- Fruit3 -- would also use the Data Type Lookup Wizard referencing the Fruit table.
The bottom line: a person will have a choice of 3 fruits.
Again, the problem is that I cannot get the query to work where I choose =banana for the criteria for all three fields. Banana might be person one's first choice, but it might be person two's second choice, etc. I'm looking for all the bananas no matter which choice it is.
Your assistance is appreciated.
I will try and explain this as simply as possible.
I have a lookup table that is purely dates so the field is Clinic_Date, the format is date/time, and the input mask is set to short date.
I have a table called appointments. I have a field called appt_date which I am trying to make a look-up field by using the wizard to look up from the clinic_date table. However I an getting the error message "You have entered an expression that has an invalid reference to the property l." (thought it doesn't look like the letter "l" but more like a long vertical line).
What on earth could be going on?
I tried to chosee Lookup Wizard as data type in my table so I can have drop-down options from another table. However, I received an error message, "ActiveX component can't create object". What does this mean, please help :confused:
View 1 Replies View Relatedhey,
i have applied a lookup wizard to some fields, just to see what happened, and now i want to undo it... how do i do this pls?
thanks
I'm using the lookup wizard for to allow a user to pick a value from a text field. However, when I use the lookup wizard the field type for the field that displays the selected value is number instead of text. When the selected value is displayed in List Box, instead of the text it displays the ID number for the record the text is picked from - For example, if I choose the name "Alex" from the lookup, the number 1 is displayed, if I choose "Bob" it is 2 and if I don't select a value, it shows 0.
Any idea what exactly is going on?
How does one use the lookup wizard for dates?
It says: The lookup wizard doesn't apply to fields of this data type.
I want a combo box for dates.
Heres something I dont understand about the lookup wizard:
Ive done a lookup wizard on one of my fields, so that now the user gets a drop down list of options to choose from:
0;1;2;3;4;5;6;7;8;"NTSC";"PAL"
Ive also set "Limit to list" to yes, so that these are the only options the user can enter.
However, it will still let me change and play around with the data type settings under the general tab. I dont understand why it lets me do this. I can set the lookup to the above list, and then specify a date type of type "date", and it will allow me to do it.
Why is this the case? Which datatype should I set it to, if I have a list of values like the one above?
I've been doing a lot of research and reading on databases and normalization and things of that sort because I need to create database from scratch. I've been maintaining a db that someone else made, but it turns out I will have to recreat the whole thing because it's not useful anymore and the users need a more user friendly db. I have a couple of days some are:
tblTO
------
TONumber
Contract
Product Directorate <- combo box 20 items
Document Type <- combo box 15 items
TOManager <- combo box 10 items
tblTOItem
----------
Product <- combo box 13 items
JobNo
BasicDate
ChangeDate
ChangeLevel
TotalBillablePgs
TotalTextPgs
TotalArtPgs
Standard <- combo box 22 items
TemplateVersion <- combo box 20 items
SourceFormat <- combo box 15 items
SourceLocation <- combo box 10 items
The ones I have the arrows for will be a combo box on my form.
My question is should I make each of these field a table of its own?
For instance make the Product field a table and list all the 13 products there?
Or keep the Product field in the tblTOItems and in design view of tblTOItems use the Lookup Wizard and type in my values there to make a lookup column.
I have seen it done both ways, and I was just wondering which way is more efficient.
As one is typing in a field with a lookup wizard - dropdown list - is there anyway to see the list without clicking on the down arrow? Perhaps there is a choice somewhere in the program where dropdown menus for the lookup wizard can be made visible?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI know this is odd but I need to somehow create a way of making a dropdown list with more than 50 characters. One has 250. There are 3 options to choose from and only one needed to be selected.
I am happy to just type a 1, 2 or 3 in the box IF it can be referenced somehow to one of the 3 longer statements that I need to use but how to do this.
I'm trying to create a field with the lookup wizard, however it's a bit more complicated. I need the field to have multiple choices(3) and when a specific option is selected I need some additional choices to appear. For example: Question - have you ever used a specific product. Options: a-yes, b -no, c-other. If option b is selected then thats it, but if option a is selected I need a few other options to appear: was the brand Option1 or Option2? Also did you use it before(option1) or after(option2) smth.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've designed a database at work to collate information about locations around the world that are contaminated by conflict and military activities. I'm struggling with the use of the lookup wizard to populate some fields in one table from another table.The database is ultimately meant to be used to identify contaminated sites in various countries and also to be a source of data for an online interactive map. As such, it needs to hold a fair amount of information. I figured that it would be normal that some fields and tables would be connected to one another. So, for example:
Country table is looked up by the conflict table to provide the names of countries participating in a conflict. To do so I used the lookup wizard. Similarly, the Site information table is looked up by the Site contamination event table to provide the names of contaminated sites. The Site contamination event table. Then the Site assessment table looks up the Site contamination event table to provide the name of contaminated sites. The relationship between these three table is intended so that at any given site multiple instances of contamination and their subsequent assessment can be recorded. This is where I started noticing problems. When I tried to input some fields into the Site assessment table, specifically the 'Site name', it would only display the primary and foreign keys in the drop down menu but not the 'Site name'.
- Have I messed up by relying on the lookup wizard in my table design? This seems to be the consensus in this and most forums (I checked another thread in the 'Tables' forum here). That said, I've seen some people making a distinction between using 'Lookup tables' and 'Lookup fields within a table', but given my relative newbyness I'm struggling to see the difference!
- If the answer is yes then what approach should I take to achieve the same aim (having multiple tables that feed information to one another). Initial research seems to suggest putting lookup/combo boxes in my forms. I'm dabbling with that at the minute but so far the results haven't been as desired.
I've attached a zip file with a screenshot of my relationships diagram to give an extra idea. Note that the relationship between the 'Site assessment' table and 'Site contamination event' table isn't showing up as I removed while trying to troubleshoot, but it is supposed to be one-to-many from 'Site contamination event' to 'Site assessment'.
I am trying to create a lookup wizard to record the number of people who attend a regular event. I have a table recording the names, surnames and DOB of registered members and a number of other tables for regular events we hold. Previously people have been manually adding the names of attendees and of course there have been inconsistencies in the data. I want them to look up the names from the table of registered members. I have been using the lookup wizard, but it is only displaying the first name in a string. I need it to display id, first name, surname and DOB in a table. I also want to be able to type in the first letter and then pick from the list.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm wrestling with the issues; in other threads, it became apparent that because I could not know ahead of time what I will need to know about a given entity, I will use a table to enumerate attributes that is applicable for a given entity.
However, the stumper is that what if an attribute should conform to a set list of values? Since they are dynamic, I would have problem predicting what I will need to be able to lookup, and am even don't know whether I will need a one-many lookup or many-many lookup.
I thought that generic lookup table with a table listing "classes" of lookup would allow me to have one big generic lookup table while using "classes" to act like virtual tables so I can then set the query to appropriate "class" to return just right set of values.
But as I thought about it, I ran into some issues which is pulling me toward the crazy idea that I should have freestanding tables, and use a field in tblAttribute to give me the table's name so I'd know which free-standing table it points to, and have the necessary key to lookup the values within that table.
Even though my gut instincts tell me that I shouldn't be going against the conventions of database design (who the frick goes around creating free-standing lookups?!?), I'm simply not sure how I can use a generic lookup table to hold all information.
For example, suppose I was given a list of values that has its own categories. Since the former design allows only for two level (lookup and lookupclass), where am I to insert that extra level?
Furthermore, I found myself needing a set of virtual keys to reference a certain "class" of lookups for report purposes. That means I need an extra field in my lookup table than I originally anticipates. What if I find myself needing one more field that just won't fit the generic lookup table?
So does anyone have suggestions on how we would create a placeholder for a lookup table that will be made just in time?
I have three large source tables imported into my database. I have created queries to retrieve relevant values from fields in each source table which feeds into my form. Each field on my form that is connected to the relevant query is a lookup field. For example, one field called "Supplier_Name" another called "Supplier_Code" and a third called "Route_Number".
Needless to say each of my lookup fields are very long. I am trying to filter my search based upon the selection from the previous Lookup field. How I can filter a lookup field's value based upon the previous lookup field selection? Each Supplier has a code and assign route(s) and I have already established these relationships.
I have two tables(tblInvoiceItem and tblItems). On both of these tables there is; ItemNo and ItemCost. tblItems already has various records about items. I want to be able to have a lookup field for ItemNo on tblInvoiceItems which will populate the ItemCost from tblItems.
Basically when I pick an item number(lookup field on tblInoviceItem, looking up from tblItems), I want the price which corrisponds with it to appear in the correct field(ItemCost on tblInoviceItems).
Hopefully I explained that okay :confused:
how to do a particular thing in Access 2010 (I don't even know if it is possible).
I have a table named PRODUCTS:
ID_PRODUCT (primary key, autonumber long integer)
ALLOWED_OPTIONS (multi value text lookup field: "Option 1";"Option 2";...;"Option 9")
So I can store, for each different product, none, one, or more options to let the customers choose from.
I have a table named ORDERS:
ID_ORDER (primary key, autonumber long integer)
FK_CUSTOMER (foreign key, linked to the primary key of a CUSTOMERS table; represents the customer that places the order.)
FK_PRODUCT (foreign key, linked to PRODUCTS.ID_PRODUCT; represents the product that the customer has choosen)
CHOOSEN_OPTION (lookup text field; the customer must choose ONE option among those allowed for the product he has ordered)
The problem is that I would like the CHOOSEN_OPTION field to show as a combobox, listing the values stored into PRODUCTS.ALLOWED_OPTIONS, so that when a customer buys a product, he can choose only among the options allowed by that particular product.How can I manage a multi value field to populate a combobox, in which every item stays on its line? If I use, as a query to populate the combobox:
select [PRODUCTS].[ALLOWED_OPTIONS]
from PRODUCTS
where [PRODUCTS].[ID_PRODUCT]=[FK_PRODUCT]
I obtain an empty combobox.If I refer to the last field as [ORDERS].[FK_PRODUCT], Access asks me to type a value for "[ORDERS].[FK_PRODUCT]", treating it as an unknown parameter.I think that the problem is that when the combobox expands, the record is not committed yet, so FK_PRODUCT is unknown (NULL?). But this happens even if I commit the record typing something in FK_PRODUCT and then I re-enter the record and I expand the CHOOSEN_OPTION combobox, that is still empy although FK_PRODUCT exists, now.Is there a particular syntax to refer to a field in a record not committed yet (something like "THIS." or "ME.")?
Hello there,
I've lately come across some posts that condemn using lookup fields in tables. But how bad is this really? I mean it's quite a nifty feature, and it'd be really too bad if it hogs up resources, thus forcing us to leave it alone for performance considerations.
I'd appreciate if any of you guys/gals with more experience on the topic would like to share some, so I can take a better stance for future developement.
Regards,
Jaime
I have been working with a simple Dlookup to return a value based on the data held in a specific field. I am now trying to develop this further and need some help.
I have a query "QryMainForm" that brings together fields from 2 tables "TblFS" (fields: Ref, score 1, score 2) and "TblFamily" (fields: Familyname). the query adds the values in Score 1 and Score 2 and saves the value as "points".
Seperatly from this i have a table "Tbllevels" which contains the fields Score, Operational, Admin, Technical. with the points scored relating to a value within each field. What i need to do is run the lookup based on the both "points" and Familyname fields contained in the query.
So the TblLevels looks like this:
Score.....Technical.....Operational.......Admin
100........................... Level 1.........Level 2
200 ........Level 1..........Level 2.........Level 3
300.........Level 2..........Level 3
400.........Level 3
So someone who scores 300 points could be assigned to the technical or operational group (this is done manually). What i need the lookup to do is to return the level based on the points and Familyname fields located on "qrymainform"
any ideas on how i can do this one?
Hi,
I have a table that has 3 columns.
Issue, Review, and Information.
These 3 fields get their data from the same lookup table that holds some code values.
So I'm trying to create a query to export to excel that shows the data for this table, but for the lookup fields, I just get the ID's from the lookup table.
So the table is like this now
ID...Issue...Information....Review
1.......2..........5...............1
2.......1..........12..............6
So I would like to be able to display what the ID numbers actually are, but having trouble getting a query to do this for all 3 fields.
I can run a query that shows 1 field's but not all 3.
what I would like to see
ID.....Issue...Information....Review
1.......2a.........4c.............e5
2.......1a.........3c.............2F
all 3 columns use code_ID from the lookup table.
Is there a way to do this? or should I have used 3 different lookup tables for these?
I am working on a project that I know I am making more difficult then it need be...... Maybe because I started with a form and tried to build everything else around it. The database looked bad...... Now it looks good... normalized as I can see it... But trying to get the information in is being difficult.
The DB has customers, thats no problem. These customers have inspections done to areas for cleaning.
I have done the areas in a drop down, in one table, and the task to be rated as a dropdown in another table. Then finally a rating table....1 to 5.
It is very easy to go in in datasheet view and input the info for each area, then pick a task from the next dropdown and then pick a rating from the final.
Problem is this won't be as easy for someone else to input. So here is the form problem.
Heres how I would like to lay it out. An over all inspection form. Areas inspected and rating (average)
I will use a command button from the main form to open up say "area1"
On the area one form is the first problem....
I want 6 different task to give a rating to...... But these task are on a dropdown....so I can not bring over the field more then once.... or I dont know how..It's getting confusing and I don't think it should be.... its a pretty simple one.
So can anyone guild me to a databse similiar to this? I need to see how one like this is done.
Thanks
The lookup has a two column dropdown: FirstName and LastName. This is for the field, Sponsor, however I want to concatenate the First and Last name and have those stored in Sponsor. How do I do that?
Note: I just did it in the Lookup query.
Now a related problem is when I make a change to the table (e.g. Lookup), the change does not show in the form. Is there a way to "refresh" the form? My work around was to delete and re-add the field...I'm sure that is not the correct way to do it.
And when I added the field, the caption comes along with it bound to the field. Is there some magic keystroke to break the bond?
I have a database that keeps track of inspection records. What I want to be able to do is open the form Inspection, and select a part # in a dropdown. When I do that I want it to fill in all of the critical item/dimension boxes on that same form for that part number that I selected above. I tried to figure it out from the sample database example on here, but I just cannot figure it out. Any help is greatly appreciated. A copie of my database is attached.
View 4 Replies View RelatedHi, all! I'm once again needing your sage, wise advice.
I was reading on MVPS.org, and found a page that denounces the use of lookup fields in tables, because of the way it skews relationships, weighing down the database.
http://www.mvps.org/access/tencommandments.htm
(#2)
Do you all agree with this?
What do you recommend I do, in lieu of lookup fields, when I need to maintain integrity of the data.
Thanks SO much. You guys are my heroes!
KellyJo