I have a field called images and its name is like abc0001, abc0002 etc, i want to update all the abc to abcd0001, abcd0002 etc, how can I do this using update query or is there any other way to do this, thanks for any help...
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I am trying to update the value of a field from say, "Word" to "Test120+". I am using the SQL code as below....
UPDATE tblTable SET tblTable.Field = "Test120+"
WHERE (((tblTable .Field)="120") AND ((tblCurrent.Field02)="TT"));
But the end results are that the value has been changed to just Test120 !! The plus (+) sign has been excluded. Is there anyway I can force the plus sign to be used in this update query or has Access some sort of bug because the plus sign is used as an arithmetic character that prevents it from being used as a value in a query ?
Any workarounds or advice greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Mitch....
I have what I think is a difficult problem to overcome...
I am designing a form to create an invoice. The user will select a workstream and a date range in form frmInvByHrs. Within this I want two sub-forms, one is frmInvByHrsTsht and the other is frmInvByHrsBill. I want the first one to display all the staff and their hours done, and the second one to be in data entry mode where you can enter the hours you want to bill. Each sub-form is based on a separate query.
Is it possible to do this? ie. to have one sub-form in data entry mode, and the other not? It seems to me that the data entry mode is controlled by the MAIN form regardless of the sub-form settings!
If this is not possible, do you know how I can acheive this?
Thanks
S
Hi everyone,
I have refined my query from previous threads to involved a module function. This calculates more acurately no of working days between dates and takes into account a holidays table. (All credit to Arvin Meyer on the module:) )
However because the Leave Year starts at the 1 July and finishes 30 Jun I need to compose the date for any current year Year(Now())
Enclosed scrdmp shows my query design. I can easily get it to work as you see it, but obviously as each year rolls over, the year needs to change.
Have looked at many posts but can't find what I'm looking for. This one will get me over the hurdle.
Many thanks,
I have a form that has combo boxes and text fields (as well as sub forms). There is also a button linked to some code that says'
Private Sub cmdQuote_Click()
'Creates quote date and prints quote
Me.QuoteDate = Now()
Me.cbAgentID.Requery
DoCmd.OpenReport "Quote", acViewPreview, , "BookingID = " & Me.BookingID
End Sub
When the button is pressed the QuoteDate field (it is bound) should be be populated, but unfortunately it is not. I have played with refresh and requery but cannot derive a solution.
I am having more trouble with the old database I am trying to make.
Can someone have a look if I attach it?
I don't think the ID fields in each of the three tables are working togehter.
Shouldnt they be the same ID number of each record for that person across the three tables?
Thanks.
I am trying to create a Part Number Database and want it to start at 100000 instead of 1. Can someone tell me how I can get Access to start there?
TIA.
First time on here and I am looking assistance with the last part of this code. Can someone tell me what this is looking for thanks...
ExlFile.Application.activeworkbook.SaveAs "........Compliance Reports" & Rtn & BU & "-" & Cat & ".xls
On a report I have a field that has a value that can be anywhere from 15 to 25 char. Can I set up the report field to only display the 1st 10 char. ?
jon
I have a data base with the field named "PartNumber" this is a 13 diget number. How can I search on the last 7 digets only
View 2 Replies View RelatedHello. Im new here and also new to both Visual Basic and Access so please be patient with me :)
I've downloaded SearchDB.zip uploaded by agehoops. Its works exactly like its supposed to but I need to update it a bit.
Im making a MovieDatabase and have a table with Orginaltitle, SwedishTitle, Director, Actors and so on. When I search in "Director" for "Francis Ford Coppola" or just "Francis" the movies which is related to him comes up. But when I search for "Ford Coppola" or only "Coppola" nothing comes up. I want the user to have that possibilty to search using the last part of the name too. Is that possible?
When searching with the binocolor icon it works fine when chosing "part of record", i think thats the english translation for "Del av fält". I have a swedish acces version so im not so sure but anyhow I think you understand what I mean.
To sum it up I want the ability to search writing only a part of what the record contain including the last part and not only the first part like it is right now.
Appreciate any help!
Regards,
SoloJuve
Excel in Access (Part 1) (http://www.access-programmers.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=671226)
Excel in Access (Part 3) (http://www.access-programmers.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=143970)
Video Version HERE: (http://www.access-programmers.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=144045)
How to use the Normalization Form (http://www.access-programmers.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=143983)
In Excel in Access (Part 1), we went from this:
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x317/UncleGizmo/StudentTableBoolean_2.png
To this:
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x317/UncleGizmo/StudentTableTransposed2.png
This was achieved with a form based tool available to DOWNLOAD here. (http://www.access-programmers.co.uk/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=20619&d=1202664804)
See instructions on its use here: (http://www.access-programmers.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=143983)
However you may be looking at the new resultant table and wondering what on earth to do with it. I hope to take you through the process of making it into something useful in this thread.
The first thing you will notice is that where the check box is not checked, then that whole row is redundant, for instance there’s no need to record that ID number “1” --- “Has Not” taken Maths, English, Geography, Physics etc, it would suffice just to record the subjects that have been taken , In this case Biology, PT and Social. Looking at those entries in particular, then a general rule of logic can be defined, “delete all the rows where the check boxes are false”.
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x317/UncleGizmo/DataSheetForm_1b.png
Once you have deleted all of those rows,
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x317/UncleGizmo/DataSheetForm_1c.png
then it becomes obvious that the check boxes themselves which now “All” contain a true value are also redundant, they can be deleted just leaving you the text entry identifying the subject taken by each student.
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x317/UncleGizmo/DataSheetForm_1d.png
Using the “relational” properties of the database that is one more thing you can do which will improve efficiency and that is to replace each text entry --- Maths, English, Geography, Physics etc, with a number linking that field to a look up table.
First of all you need to create a look up table; this can be done by applying a create table query to extract just the unique values for the “subject” There is a video showing how to do this here: (At time index 1min) (http://www.viddler.com/explore/TonyHine/videos/67/fullscreen)
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x317/UncleGizmo/DataSheetForm_1e.png
This unique list should be called “tblSubject” this table is not quite finished, you need to add an identity column to the left of the text representing the individual subject, this identity will then appear in the previous table.
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x317/UncleGizmo/DataSheetForm_1f.png
Once you have completed the “look up table” you then need to replace the entries in the student subject table “tblStudentSubject” where it shows subject in text form with the number representing the link to the look up table. This is the query:
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x317/UncleGizmo/DataSheetForm_1g.png
And here is the new column created:
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x317/UncleGizmo/DataSheetForm_1h.png
This way your design changes to the table are making it much more efficient, holding the same information but with less data.
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x317/UncleGizmo/DataSheetForm_1k.png
Excel in Access (Part 1) (http://www.access-programmers.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=671226)
Excel in Access (Part 2) (http://www.access-programmers.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=143607)
Video Version HERE: (http://msaccesshintsandtips.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=948619%3ABlogPost%3A7031)
How to use the Normalization Form (http://www.access-programmers.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=143983)
Using the normalization form --- Download Here (http://www.access-programmers.co.uk/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=20619&d=1202664804) we converted part of a spreadsheet type table into the beginnings of a relational table.
From this table we derived a “look up table” now giving us a total of three tables, the remains of the first table, “tblStudent” (the student names), the next table “tblStudentSubject” stores the subject(s) related to each student, and finally a third table, “tblSubject” a “look-up table” to store the actual subject description.
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x317/UncleGizmo/ThreeTables.png
From the table “tblStudentSubject” we created a form in datasheet view:
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x317/UncleGizmo/DataSheetForm.png
Now all we need do is combine this datasheet view form with a form based on the students list, and this will give us a form for correctly displaying the student names and the subject(S) the student is taking in one Form:
Using the wizard create a basic form from the student table and name it “frmStudent” arrange its size so it has some open space as shown.
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x317/UncleGizmo/StudentForm.png
Now open “frmStudent” in design view
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x317/UncleGizmo/DragSub_1.png
And drag the subform “sfrmlStudentSubject” into the clear area on the student form “frmStudent”
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x317/UncleGizmo/DragSub_2.png
You may wish to delete the text box, you don’t have to but I usually find it looks better without it.
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x317/UncleGizmo/DragSub_3.png
Size the form to suit
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x317/UncleGizmo/DragSub_4.png
Now save the form and have a look, you will notice that it incorrectly shows all of the records in the subform,
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x317/UncleGizmo/DragSub_5.png
Now the next bit is tricky, for two reasons, the form isn’t really on top of the other form, it actually sits in a subform window and you need to gain access to the properties of this subform window by clicking on the tiny line that you can just see around your subform. This can be a difficult task to master first time.
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x317/UncleGizmo/DragSub_6.png
Now open the “subform field linker” dialog box by clicking on the ellipsis (…)
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x317/UncleGizmo/DragSub_7.png
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Hi,
Apologies, I have no idea if this should go in reports, queries, macros or modules and VBA as I'm a bit stuck but hopefully it's fairly simple.
I've been teaching myself access and it's been going well. What I have now been asked to do is produce a report that generates the shift patterns for everyone in the office as an HTML document. Now, the data is all exported from another program and I've had no problem getting the data into access easily. The problem I have is the format some of the data is in.
The major one that I need to solve is showing what time people are meant to take their lunch break each day. The field for break is filled in in the following format.
07/04/2008 12:45:00
Now, I have the date from elsewhere so I really don't want the date to show up so I need something that removes the date from this field. Is this going to be easy to do? (Ideally I'd like it so that the above example actually just returned 12:45 but if it has the 00 on the end that would not be the end of the world)
Apologies if this is in the wrong part of your forum.
Hi folks,
I have a table with the words "Church of (whatever)" in one of the records. I am attempting to do an update query to remove the "Church of" part but leave the remaining part of the string. I am using a combination of Format and left but am not having any look. Any suggestion are much appreciated.
Thanks
Colin.
Hi Guys!
I'm working on this database in which I have 2 forms:
one form has personal information (PersonalInfo)
and the other one is a search form (Search)
In the search form I have a field in which I want to type any part of the Name field in PersonalInfo form and I want to retrieve all the records that have this part of the name.
Here is what I tried:
In the PersonalInfo form, I want to the criteria of the NameField and typed the following:
Like %[Forms]![Search]![SearchField]%
but it didn't work.
Any help will be very much appreciated.
Regards,
CS.
I found a thread from last year that is close to solving this question but not 100% so I'll post this new thread.
I have a field called ITEM_NUM in a database with the following structure:
XX-YYYYYYYYY
XX-YYYYY
XX-YYYYYYYYYYYY
I need to extract the Y portion of the data and a Query format would be the best.
FYI, the X portion consists of 2 Letters/numbers then the Hyphen and the Y portion is variable in length.
thanks for your help!
I have joined 3 tables using the query design and I have 3 different fileds. There are fields that have information that I don't need. e.g. I don't want the first 10 characters of field 1. How do I do this in query design (even in SQL view). Or do I need to do this in the table itself before joining the table. Hope my question makes sense. Thanks for any input.
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I may be missing something here, but can any one help?
I am using a Iif statment in a query to filter records as follows:
If([value from a form]= "all holidays",("weeks hols" or "days hols"),"not a holiday")
This is returning a to complex to calculate error - I think it is a Syntax error but could be wrong
but if I enter The string "week hols" or "days Hol" as the criteria without the Iif statment that works fine.
Thanks Dean
I have a bunch of server names that have names like aaa.bbb, xxx.yyy. All i need from these server names is the name before the first "." so in the first example all I would need is aaa. I've been using this formula in excel MID(A1,1,FIND(".",A1) - 1). This works great.. Is there any way to do this in access?
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My name is Amanda, and recently I’ve started using Access again for work. I haven’t touched the program in about five years, so I am rusty. In addition, it turns out that I am the only one in my department who’s ever even opened Access. I’ve tried hunting down a manual around here, and it seems to be an ever ending scavenger hunt. I also have not been able to find the answer to my question via web, FAQ, and experimentation, although, I feel it’s a fairly basic question.
So here it goes. I want to return all fields that contain part of a text. For example, I want all fields that contain the word “lux”, regardless of what else the field contains to be returned. So if a field contains “lux. cars” it will be returned in my query.
I’ve tried goggling “Microsoft Access” with “text formulas,” however, all I receive are excel formulas.
Thank you.
I have a table with names in a field called [Name] in the format Mr John Smith
I need to append the names to another table but to 3 separate fields for title, initial, surname
I know the format for example Left([Name],1) to take only the first letter, but how do I tell it to take from the left up to the first space for the title, how to take between the first and second spaces for the first name etc?
Any help gratefully received
Hey People,
Is it possible to take out part of a date in a query and put it into a new column, e.g.
if one field is : "Date"... with entries such as 12/05/07.. etc,
is it possible to have another column "Month" that has the specific month in the date column.. e.g the one above will have "May".......
anyone have any idea about this...
cheers.
See attached database
List box connect to qryInsurance
Main Form Employees
1st Question is how to i add a wild star character so that if a user types a all insurances starting with that letter letter a will show up in the list box
User Type B, c d etc etc
2nd Question if you take a look at the main form employee you will see to text box One called Primary Insurance the other called secondary insurance
followed by a hyper link
The hyperlinks open the list box
What i want to do is when a user double clicks Insurance name from list box it will insert insurance name into text box
Hi all,
I have a form that let the user to select a training and add trained employee one by one to the database. but i have a problem here, (pls refer to the attachment, thanks). on top part (Training course) i let the user choose the training course then i lock it, after that user start to select the specify employee to the training course, but what i need is when i click the add button then all the record to the database(works good), then the bottom part is cleared and let user to select another employee with keeping the top part details. Any Idea?
Really appreciated if someone can help.
Thanks
alex.
I have a table with the field "Date". The date is in the format mm/dd/yyyy.
I would like to create a query that selects only the year of each record, and disregards the month and day.
Is this possible?