Urgent Required Field Advice Needed
Jul 1, 2005
I'm looking for advice on the best method to accomplish the following from the esteemed members of this Forum (You all have provided excellent advice in the past to this Access Dummy, with my thanks), (I've also searched the forums without result):
I would like to make several fields "required" fields on my form, easy enough, in that I set the Required property on the table to "Yes".
What I would like to happen on the form is that when a user tabs out of a required field, a message box pops up that says "This is a required field" and/or when they click any of the following command buttons I've created, "Save Record", "New Record" or "Close Form", that a message box pop up and list the required fields that they missed.
Any ideas, with code, macros, or other solutions would be greatly appreciated, keeping in mind that I'm just not that swift to start with.
Many Thanks,
Photoguy
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Oct 3, 2005
Hi,
I hope someone can help me, I have a database compiled from different sources which means that information in fields that need to be linked are written differently, meaning that I can't just simply make a relationship between them.
The two tables I would like to link are,
Table 1 has the fields OCCUPATION and AMOUNT and contains over 740,000 records.
Table 2 has the fields COMPANY_NAME and TICKER and has 500 records.
I need to find a way for all COMPANY_NAME fields in table 2 to be cross-referenced with the OCCUPATION field, so if COMPANY_NAME is part of the string in the OCCUPATION field then the TICKER (of that company) can be attached to the record in table 1 (specifically to AMOUNT).
The problem is that the OCCUPATION field is not written in a standard form and can include either only the occupation, only the company name, or both in either order.
I can make a seperate query for each company by using as criteria "like "*[COMPANY_NAME]*", but then I would have to do this 500 times!!! Is there a way to automate this?
The final purpose is to link the AMOUNT to TICKER so as to find the sum of all the amount associated with a company.
I really hope you can help, I have little programming knowledge and it will save me the time of making 500 seperate queries. The final use is for my thesis studying private contributions in the american elections.
Thanks in advance (I hope),
Onur
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Feb 25, 2015
I have a form that I have opening in Filter by Form mode. It WAS working flawlessly, at least it was opening in that mode. It IS still requiring me to click on Toggle Fields once data is entered into controls to filter by, but that's another issue (I wrote a recent comment, but haven't gotten any response). Something different is happening suddenly that wasn't happening before. This form is a copy of a form needed to enter data.
Both forms read from a table which has several required fields. Suddenly, when I open the form to find records in ANY mode it's making me enter something into these required fields, even though I'm not searching/filtering by them. The message comes up "You must enter a value in the [Specific Required Field name here] Field." What did I do to make this start happening? How do I stop it? I DO want something to need to be entered in the required fields when new records are being entered and when things are being changed. However, I don't want it to be required during search processes.
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Hi All
Im after some help with a query im building.
I have a table called QuizResults which has 10 Yes/No fields. The table also has a field called Site.
Each site will take a quiz and the problem I am having is with the statistics side of things.
What I need is a query that will work out the percentage correct for each site. All the data is stored in this 1 table. There are no relational fields as they are not required. I have tried a few different ways but each method I use involves me making many many queries to work this out.
To summarise I need 10 percentage correct fields, broken down by site.
Please can anyone help?
Many Thanks
Dazstarr
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Jun 4, 2006
Hello gentlemen,
My main form contains a Entry_No (Text – Not duplicate) field. I used following code in the same form in a command button’s OnClick event to increment integer value of Entry_No to “Issue-1”, Issue-2”, “Issue-3” & so on.
Dim strmax As String
strmax = DMax("[Entry_No]", "T_Drug_Receiv_Head")
Me!Entry_No = "Issue-" & Right(strmax, _
Len(strmax) - _
InStr(1, strmax, "-")) + 1
No problem with above code. It works fine.
The record source of the main form initially was based on query which I removed later. I placed following code to display only the last record while form opens (on Open event). This is a try due to very large table and I don’t want my form / query to load all 90,000 records into the memory at one time that takes time.
I placed a unbound text box (TxtMaxt) to disiplay Entry_No field of last record of the table which is ok.
Txtmax = DMax("[Entry_No]", "T_Drug_Receiv_Head") ‘ This is OK.
Dim NSSQL As String
NSSQL = "Select * from T_Drug_Receiv_Head where [Entry_No] = Txtmax"
Me.Form.RecordSource = NSSQL
Me.Refresh
When I open the form, it asks me ‘Enter parameter value’ for ‘Issue’. When enter something then dialog closes and form appears with blank record except showing displaying Entry_No field of last record of the table in the Txtmax unbound text box.
When I removes code from on open event and selects query that was set before as record set, it works.
Where might have gone wrong?
With kind regards,
Ashfaque
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It has been suggested to build a dB in MSAccess with the "questions" that were asked and upload all the responses from the online questionaire to the dB. The online questionaire & responses from each individual has been converted to excel flat files.
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The point of this exercise is so that the analysis of the result process is not cumbersome.
Hopefully I am making sense?
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Further Education level - drop down menu for "GCSE/A level ,HNC/HND, Degree, MSc, PhD"
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Chartered engineer - drop down "yes" or "no"
Professional Quals - free field for these
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Skill base 3 - as above
Professional ladder job title
Grade - drop down menu BG3,BG4. BG5
Hay points
Date of birth
Age - can this be generated from entry above and current date?
Current Assignment job title
Current Assignment start date
Current Assignment Asset
Current Assignmnet end date
Current Assignment location (eg Cairo, Idku etc)
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Post type - drop down rotation menu as above
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Location
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Sponsor in Asset
People Reports
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Hi all,:)
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respFor 56,34,45
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respFor 41,3
userID 3
respFor 42
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sectName AAA
sectID 42
sectName BBB
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sectID 56
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sectID 34
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sectID 3
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All,
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This is a simplified version of my problem, but it is the principle I'm after.
I have a query, the results of which look like
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There are multiple results with the same firstname and secondname but different item info. e.g.
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FIRSTNAME SECONDNAME ITEM1 ITEMSIZE1 ITEM2 ITEMSIZE2...ITEMn ITEMSIZEn
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