Hi, I'm a student, I need an answer to what I suspect is a very basic question for experts or experienced Access users. I'm creating a basic booking system for a real-life client, a professional singer. I have a table with each gig she takes, with details of how much she will earn, and the date of the gig.
I want to be able to show how much she earns every month, so basically adding up all the booking fees up for each month. I'm pretty sure it's a report made from a query - with the query somehow separating fees earned from month to month. Let me know if you have any ideas...
I'm trying to develop a simple company price list. I have created a suppliers products table. But I want to use the suppliers products to make up our coded goods (A Bill of Quantities simply). But I'm caught in a certain area that I dont have any knowledge on.
I want to create a form / subform whereby I can create my company codes, add up the cost price and put mark on it.
I have attached a image of what I'm trying to do in excel. In excel all I do is enter the code and the descrition and price comes up in the cells automatically. I just enter the quantity I require and total (sum) it all up.
In the subform itself. I can't get the the rest of the text boxes to automatically update once I have entered the code in the combo box. I rekon I have to enter a event procedure. Can some one help
I am trying to compare 2 tables in a mdb. One table is a linked xls file. Lets call it table A. The other is a standard table. Lets call it table B.
Table A is the "old" data that may need updated. Table B is the brand new data that will always be correct.
I want to find the differences in table B from table A. Keying off one field (ASSET_TTAG and T_TAG) if any of the attributes (8 attributes) of a record in table B are different from that matching record in table A then that record needs to be updated.
Also, if a record in table B is not in table A that will need updated also.
All of these discrepancies need to be displayed in a query along with all the attributes.
LCAMdump = Table A, SCANDATA_tbl = table B
SELECT SCANDATA_tbl.ASSET_TTAG, SCANDATA_tbl.BUILDING_NAME, SCANDATA_tbl.FLOOR, SCANDATA_tbl.DESK, SCANDATA_tbl.COLUMN, SCANDATA_tbl.FNAME, SCANDATA_tbl.LNAME, SCANDATA_tbl.SSO FROM SCANDATA_tbl LEFT OUTER JOIN LCAMdump ON SCANDATA_tbl.ASSET_TTAG = LCAMdump.T_TAG;
That is what i have so far. But it is returning a test record that i know is the same in both therefor should not be listed. :confused:
SELECT SCANDATA_tbl.ASSET_TTAG, SCANDATA_tbl.BUILDING_NAME, SCANDATA_tbl.FLOOR, SCANDATA_tbl.DESK, SCANDATA_tbl.COLUMN, SCANDATA_tbl.FNAME, SCANDATA_tbl.LNAME, SCANDATA_tbl.SSO FROM SCANDATA_tbl INNER JOIN LCAMdump ON SCANDATA_tbl.ASSET_TTAG = LCAMdump.T_TAG WHERE ((([SCANDATA_tbl]![USER _ID])<>[LCAMdump]![USER_LOGIN])) OR (((SCANDATA_tbl.BUILDING_NAME)<>[LCAMdump]![BUILDING])) OR (((SCANDATA_tbl.FLOOR)<>[LCAMdump]![FLOOR])) OR (((SCANDATA_tbl.DESK)<>[LCAMdump]![DESK])) OR (((SCANDATA_tbl.COLUMN)<>[LCAMdump]![COLUMN])) OR (((SCANDATA_tbl.FNAME)<>[LCAMdump]![USER_FIRST])) OR (((SCANDATA_tbl.LNAME)<>[LCAMdump]![USER_LAST])) OR (((SCANDATA_tbl.SSO)<>[LCAMdump]![LOGIN_SSO]));
I have also tried this but it is not quite what i am looking for. :( Not sure how hard this is, at first it did not seem like a difficult query but i am not getting anywhere fast.
I have a database that currently has security in place so that users input their own usernames and passwords to access the database. The users have recently been added to a windows 2000 server and I want to be able to use their windows 2000 server logon credentials to provide them with automatic access to the database. Is there anyone out there who knows how to set this up? It is a rather urgent request if you could get back to me either on this forum or via email
I am opening and closing a series of Excel 2000 Workbooks using Access 2000 VBA and want this sequence to be able to complete without any human intervention.
However, there are 2 instances when this stops and waits for a human option to be selected:
1. When the spreadsheet is password protected 2. When the spreadsheet has automatic links I get the message:
"The Workbook you opened contains automatic links to information in another workbook. Do you want to update this workbook with changes made to the other workbook?"
How can I code it so that in situation 1 it skips this file and in situation 2 it automatically defaults to do not update?
If I have a report in MS Access 2000 generated based on the criteria selected of a project with work order "9999" with the labor costs, materials costs and the Totals of each crew1, crew2,... and I would like to have those expenditures populated in corresponding cel in Excel for each crew, HOW would I do it?
To think it out loud, could I create a button on a form, so when I select the criteria for the work order, and when I click the button, it should refresh/update the Exel file with the new data...?? How do I write VBA code for that...?
I have recently been doing a conversion for my boss for a access 2000 database (both front and backend) to a MSSQL backend.
I finished the conversion today (as quite a lot of the code / queries ran slow due to access running the queries locally rather than on the server). And tested it on my and my boss's machine with no problems so he gave the go ahead to update everybody to our new mssql 2000 backend with the modified frontend.
This is when the problems started; We had two different sets of forms for accessing one of our databases systems - the log system, one is the original dynaset based form, and the other is a newer set which uses snapshot views and preforms updates via queries. Nobody uses the old dyanset system apart from my boss and one of the administrative team as they have things on that window which they need to see. About 30 minutes into the release of the new database the system frooze up on my bosses computer and nobody could create a new log (the server was timing out). I assumed this had something to do with the old dynaset's creating locks on the table.
I offlined the database and kicked everybody out of the front end, turned it on again and tied again, this time banning everybody from the dynaset system. Within 10 minutes another computer frooze up, again with a timeout on the insert query. I discovered that after you had added a new log to the database it would timeout on all subquent additions (something it hadn't done during testing) . Further investigatiion showed it was the snapshot list window causing the error, so coded the add log window to close the list before preforming the insert query and then reopen it afterwards. This allowed my machine to make multible additions without flaw. So I released a new client to everybody. 15 minutes later it was timing out again, but this time there you could not even make one new record.
I checked for locks on the table though the server management table and couldn't find any for the Log table. I have restarted the SQL server box and with no avil. So I reverted our backend to the access mdb file and told people to use the old client.
I am at a complete lose to why this is happening, if anybody has had any expericences like this or knows the cause please tell me.
Some information on the database in question.
It was made as an access 2 database all intergrated into one file, then it was seperated into two files (frontend and backend). Upgraded to Access 97, then to 2000 before this final update to MSSQL 2000.
The log system has two main tables. The first is the log title / info table which links (one to many) to a log entry table. This problem only occurs on the main log table and does not appear to be reoccurring anywhere else within the database. The main log table has just under 18,000 rows in it.
Hi all. Had a quick peruse and this place seems really helpful, lets hope you can help me out here.
I have a project to do which roughly described is engineers doing jobs on aircraft. Three main tables:
Engineer Booking Job
The job table denotes the work required on an aircraft, with a unique barcode for the "job card". The Engineer table contains information about our engineers, with a unique ID.
Now here's my problem. The booking table needs to store information from both of these tables, but store it seperately. So I need to take some information from Engineer (ID, name, trade etc) and some from the Job table (barcode, description etc) and store it again in the "booking" table along with a few other "new" fields unique to the booking table. When this "booking" is made, it must record the start time, furthermore when the record is returned to later and closed, the duration of it being "open" must be worked out (total job time).
Ideally I'd like to create a form whereby I drop down a combo box and select an engineer (or type and autocomplete) it fills in the rest of his details, I then drop down another box and select a barcode (or again autocomplete) and that completes the rest of the job details. I then type in the new fields I also need, and this all gets stored in the "booking" table.
Any help greatly appreciated :)
I'm working with A2K3 for clarification, and can post/email my current database if required.
I downloaded a database of historical baseball stats recently and having been playing around with Access for a bit although frankly, I haven't been able to learn or do much. Anyways, here's my question:
I have one table that is a master list of all the players. The two main things I'm worried about are the playerID and the birthyear (year of birth). In another table I have batting stats from the players from each year they played. However, it is missing the year of birth which I need to calculate the age in that year. So, I need to get the birthyear from the master table and put it into the batting table next to the corresponding ID. Most players played for multiple years so then for everytime a playerID occurs in the batter table, I have to insert the corresponding birthyear from the master column. Hope that makes sense.
As I said, I'm completely new to this kinda stuff so any help or tips would be greatly appreciated.
I have a simple table "Line" with Columns Key, OrderNumb, Panels, Gates, Posts, Color, Memo, Comp. A user enters the information into the powder.asp page. It is then added to the database. The Comp Column is populated NO by a hidden input type. The data is then displayed on a page in a table and the last column has a submit button. When the user Presses that button I would like it to update that record in the database to change Comp to YES. Some code snipits are below. The first is where the data is presented and where the submit button is. It then will go to the next snippet that hypotheticly will change just the Comp on that record to YES. I can't get it to work. Thanks Code:<form method="POST" action="powder_comp.asp"> <tr> <td valign="top" align="left"><%= rs("OrderNumb") %></font></td> <td valign="top" align="left"><%= rs("Panels") %></font></td> <td valign="top" align="left"><%= rs("Gates") %></font></td> <td valign="top" align="left"><%= rs("Posts") %></font></td> <td valign="top" align="left"><%= rs("Color") %></font></td> <td valign="top" align="left"><%= rs("Memo") %></font></td><td valign="top" align="left"><input type=hidden name="OrderNumb" value="<%=rs("OrderNumb")%>"><input type="submit" value="submit"></form></font></td> Code:<%OrderNumb=request.form("OrderNumb")accessdb="Powder" cn="DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};"cn=cn & "DBQ=" & server.mappath(accessdb)Set rs = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")sql = "SELECT * FROM Line Where OrderNumb=OrderNumb ;"rs.CursorType = 2rs.LockType = 3rs.Open sql, cnrs.Updatesql = "UPDATE Line Set Comp=Yes"rs.CloseSet rs = NothingSet cn = Nothing%><META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0; URL=powder.asp"> I'm still very new to this so please go easy on me.
Ive come here to find out how to start making a date base from scratch,
I have had to change my life dramaticly over the last two years taking up new hobbies and interests, to try and keep my mind active and out of depression. My main interest is mine making and I want to create a megga database so that I can monitor recipies and ingrediants, against the wine cellar stocks.
It will need to be quite a comprehencive database with two or 3 elements working indevidually but also inconguntion with each other.
Sections I need to create inclue
Wine Celler, stock control and drink ability. Some wines are not drinkable or 12 months but will taste well improved after 3 years storage.
Recipie collection, I want to keep a data base of collectied recipies and all to do thith them but want recipies to link to Wine cellor stock control.
Can anyone please help me, I know it is a lot to ask but really dont know where to start.:confused::confused::confused:
Ive come here to find out how to start making a date base from scratch,
I have had to change my life dramaticly over the last two years taking up new hobbies and interests, to try and keep my mind active and out of depression. My main interest is mine making and I want to create a megga database so that I can monitor recipies and ingrediants, against the wine cellar stocks.
It will need to be quite a comprehencive database with two or 3 elements working indevidually but also inconguntion with each other.
Sections I need to create inclue
Wine Celler, stock control and drink ability. Some wines are not drinkable or 12 months but will taste well improved after 3 years storage.
Recipie collection, I want to keep a data base of collectied recipies and all to do thith them but want recipies to link to Wine cellor stock control.
Can anyone please help me, I know it is a lot to ask but really dont know where to start.:confused::confused::confused:
We are a small Library just opened in our community, and the first one in our local area.
We are putting together an access query that will help aleviate the problems when our main library systems go down.
The database is a library records db. I want the query to ask the user for an author and a site and then to list all the records that match that query. Ideally i would like the user to be able to select a number of sites (from a possible 5), perhpas from a drop down type menu or checkboxes, type in the Author and then click on a button to perform the query.
Any help would be gratly appreciated - we are all beginners with access here.
Do you need to see what I have done so far? if so I could upload it for you.
We are a small Library just opened in our community, and the first one in our local area.
We are putting together an access query that will help aleviate the problems when our main library systems go down.
The database is a library records db. I want the query to ask the user for an author and a site and then to list all the records that match that query. Ideally i would like the user to be able to select a number of sites (from a possible 5), perhpas from a drop down type menu or checkboxes, type in the Author and then click on a button to perform the query.
Any help would be gratly appreciated - we are all beginners with access here.
Do you need to see what I have done so far? if so I could upload it for you.
I just want it to deduct: one numeric field from another - to get a miles travelled number ? one currency figure from another - to get how much more/less fuel was used than last month ?
also to work out: an average of 3 figures to multiply one figure by another ?
Is this possible ? How easy is it ?
This is because I want to move my Excel spreadsheets to Access so I can alalyse it better and create custom reports. But despite browsing Access for a while, I can't find the features I need, or anything in the help file to help me.
I've been using Access for a few years (Access 2000) and have created two custom databases from scratch.
Jay Evans IT Support Co-ordinator for Simply Drinks Ltd
Here is something I wonder if it has already existed or been asked before, a program or an add-in feature that can compile an Access database (including forms, reports, tables...) to a stand-alone .exe application, just like Visual Basic does. The reason why I think it's doable is because in Access, we use VB codes anyway and it wouldn't need to be rocket-science for Access to do something like that or this would be an improvement for future versions.
There are plenty of advantages of going from an Access form to a stand-alone app, i.e. we wouldn't need codes to hide background and menu or status bar; we wouldn't need to disable mouse-scroll or prevent users to go back and accidentally delete past records; or we wouldn't need to worry about users seeing your terrific coding techniques and on and on.....Agree that all these can be done within Access but imagine how much time it'd save you from not doing all these things.
ok I'm an accounting major and for one of my classes which is accounting information systems, they are making us design a database in access. Long story short, our teacher is horrible and is not teaching us access and continues to assume we know it and ignores us when we explain to her that access was never taught in our lower level classes. Our book also does not cover access to an extent that will help us with this project.
I have a small access assignment that requires we make a database for a small video rental store. The only things that need to be kept in mind are that the store has many customers, you stock over 2,500 different movies with most having multiple copies. All daily transactions need to be managed.
I have a relational database done.. I'm just asking if anyone feels like looking at it and pointing out some mistakes or areas that should be worked on or improved I would really appreciate it.. Thank You in advanced!
If you have an Excel workbook that has a connection via a 'connection' to an Access database, do you have to have the Access software itself or is there some other way to get to the data? Idea is to limit the number of licenses that need to be purchased. Thanks.
There exists a many to many relationship between tblMODELS and tblFAA becasue once this problem is understood the database will be expanded. On my mainfFAA form I have the subfFAA/MODELS form which is displaying the information correctly. I also have a command button which properly opens the mainfEDIT_FAAMODELS form. However, when I open the form via command button it does not display the models listed in the subfFAA/MODELS. I know I can use the wizards to make this work properly but would like to understand the underlying requirements the wizard is inputting to Access.
Furthermore, I want to be able to add models with the mainfEDIT_FAAMODELS and not with the subfFAA/MODELS. I want to do this without displaying the MODELID or the FAA APPROVAL ID fields due to the fact they are useless information. I am sure this can be done via SQL but haven't been able to troubleshoot the syntax correctly.
Lastly I want to filter the ENGINE and MODELS comboboxes in my mainfEDIT_FAAMODELS based on the MANUFACTURE combobox (cascading comboboxes). I know there are many threads regarding this subject but I cannot seem to adapt one of the solutions to work with this database and do not know why.
I am not a programming wiz so please be basic. I think the biggest obstical I am having now is the syntax for filtering, sql, etc. Thank you in advance for your help.
Due to me still trying to grasp the basics of access, I have what I call the "Command Centre" which is basically a form where our administrators verify all records placed and control them from here.
As different stages of each record requires Authorising/Further Authorising by other users, they will require to update the same records as displayed on the admin control from.
The problem I have is that when the administrators make a change to a record which prompts an authoriser to go into the db and authorise, if the admin users keeps their form open (which is what I want), I understand that it doesn't save changes to the record until they exit the form. Naturally this causes problems for the authoriser.
Is there a way of saving changes to records as they are made so other users can edit the records as see it up to date. I'm thinking along the lines some vb code to save on an action.
hi... i have a form that display things in a table in access. when program the form to delete a query it deletes it but does not do rs.movenext what i want to do is the form to display the next set of data from the database. i am using dao.... please help me!!
First off sorry for jumping in and asking questions on my first post. I have been searching the net templates and answers and while it has got me so far I still cant find specifics I'm stuck on and would appreciate any help.
I have an access design project to do for uni. To give you some background I've done some VBA programming in excel and have a good grasp of office and windows but haven't really used access before.
I have got Ms Access Inside out (bit over my head) and Ms Access Step by Step and have been working through their tutorials which have helped my understanding of access but dont arnt really specific enough to my project (or maybe i'm missing something)
The Brief is as follows:
"You have been instructed to design and develop and information system to capture students module choices for the business school. The system will run on MS Access and be supported by programs written in visual basic. Spec is as follows:
The system should be designed so that students can automatically select their options for semester 1 and 2 from a screen which will indicate to them whether they have broken any of the following constraints: -> choose 30 credits in both first and second semester -> business 2 cannot be selected unless Business 1 is -> Programming 2 cannot be selected unless programming 1 is -> Decision making and Data analysis share topics so students cant do both -> Bus Finance and Corp Finance share topics so students cant do both
There is a table with 7 module options for each semester and their credit weight, either 10 or 20. The outline is deliberately vague, 20% of marks will be for supplementary features that will enhance the systems functionality and usability.
------------------ Based on the examples I have worked through, I see it like a basic ordering system:
I need a database that will let me input customer information (that I can do)
Then allow me to Create an order for the customer Using a form that lists the products available from the products table
When Creating the order, with the form, rules need to be enforced to ensure the order is valid (ie certain products are not chosen together, the products value adds up to 30 for semester 1 and 2).
Once the order is complete a report is generated to show the products ordered (modules chosen)
Is this the right way to look at the database design?
I see the module choice form as having all the modules listed and tick boxes, however the only order forms I have managed to find have drop downs, any pointers here?
Am I right in thinking it would be VBA that will allow me to set and enforce the rules on module selection? If so any pointers on how?
Is there a way to get VBA to validate the inputs on the order form in real time, eg grey out one selection if another is selected, not allow more module to be ticked than 30 credits. I guess the code can be looped to do this? or is it easier to check the inputs after ok is pressed then give a warning box if its incorrect.
Again apologies for coming in on my first post and asking a torrent of probably basic questions, but I have tried my books and the net and would appreciate any guidance
I have an access Query(named newSerial) : SELECT TOP 1 (Productbase.Serialnumber+1) AS Expr1 FROM ProductBase ORDER BY (Productbase.Serialnumber+1) DESC;
I want to access this new value. Its not a key since an autonumber may be any number. When I create a new product. How do I get this value inside a form? It works fine when clicking on it. But if I use an unbound box I get 1 as result and not like 76067 which it should be. If I click the query in access it works fine and show 76067. I tried: outbox=Expr1 ' gives null 'or outbox=[newserial].[Expr1] ' which gives "Access cant find the field "|" refered to you in your expression"
What should I write? Whats the correct expression?
