thanx for the advice...that does make more sense. my only other issue is adding the letter (m for meter permit, h for hydrant, etc.) to the permit # if they are all going to be in one table. btw, sorry for the duplicate postings...just under a bit of stress @ work. i'll make a note of it.
View RepliesWhat steps do you(s) follow or recommend to creating tables? Any standard questions? I was reading Erwin, data modeling book and didn't see a stardard check list of things to ask.
I think I need to set the following up in a db, (currently in an excel spreadsheet - has a lot of Redundancy in it) type of inspection checksheet, by machine (20 machines) and shifts (3) There are 20 or so questions that need to be filled in, (yes/no and numbers). any thoughts?
The fields on my form are not in the same order as in the table. When putting new data in the form and moving from field to field by TAB key, the cursor would jump from the field to field in the order of fields in the table. How do I change it so the cursor moves from field to field in the forms format.
Thanks in advance,
John
Greetings,
I am just posting a follow-up on my previous post on designing functional forms. Telling by the lack of replies, my original question may have been long winded and tedious. Let me try to narrow my question and make it more concise.
In two tables connected by a one-one field name ProfileID, how can I set a new field in the second table (call it StepNo or procedureNo) so that it increments step numbers for each unique ProfileID record? Thus for each new Profile record created in the first table, a new form will allow the entry of X numbers of steps into the second table and automatically link the two records?
I hope that clarifies my problem. Thanks in advance.
How do I enter a formula/calculation in a table for follow up dates. I have a basic start date. In my form/table, I want the program to insert the following follow up dates automatically: one month, 3 month and 6 month.
View 2 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone know how to go about this or know previous thread stating how to go about this?I have a Follow-Up labeled Text Box (Short Date) and I want for the associate to be able to set a desired follow-up date and for the account to disappear from the list afterwards till the follow-up date expires and it becomes viewable again.Any suggestions?
View 1 Replies View RelatedHi,
I'm wondering why my query is not working properly. All I'm just trying to do is to display all the years greater than or equal to 2000. But still, it displays the entire content of the colum from 1991 to present. How did this happen?...
is there something wrong with the way i set my criteria?
Criteria: >="2000"
I am trying to use followhyperlink as a way to open a link in a browser to a file in a shared dropbox folder. I have a form with a control, the control is named LinkToDoc it's record source is a text field in a table. The file path in the table is similar to [URL] ..... I am getting run time error 15, cannot open the specified file.
Code:
Private Sub cmdOpenFile_Click()
Application.FollowHyperlink LinktoDoc
End Sub
I am a completely green when it comes to Access and MVB. I've surprised myself in creating the db and form.
My db is for troubleshooting outlet issues. I have a list of outlets and their various configurations. Users NEVER add or change any info. They select the outlet from a combo box and view the information. The problem is that you can move the wheel and change the outlet information being displayed but the combo box does not reflect the change; it continues to show the initially selected outlet name.
How do you get the combo box text to follow the mouse wheel?
I thought an easier solution would be to disable the mouse wheel, but in looking through this forum, apparently not.
I am using Access2000 on an XP machine. . .
I follow a ritual of moving last to first before looping through a recordset. I started following this because in the way back (I think on office 2003). I used to get an error if don't do it. Is the problem still exists? Is this ritual scientific still?
Code:
Sub mac()
Dim myRset As Recordset2
Dim AttachmentField As Field2
Set myRset = CurrentDb.OpenRecordset("Table1")
With myRset
.MoveLast
[Code] ....
I am trying to create some code for a button in a report that will follow a hyperlink to a specific file. The problem I'm having is that the files that are at the end of the hyperlink can have various extensions (*.doc, *.docx, *.pdf, etc.) I'd like to be able to put a wildcard in the code to allow the opening of the file regardless of the extension.
Code so far:
Private Sub Command6_Click()
Application.FollowHyperlink ("C:UsersjbeggDocumentsAccessTestFolder" & [FileName] & ".*")
End Sub
I have had to use my first crosstab queries.
I now understand that when opening and saving crosstab queries Access (2010) runs that query to ascertain the column names. Unless you hard-code them. Running the query takes at least 20 minutes.
I have hard-coded where I can, but one report takes arbitrary dates so I can't hard-code them.
I believe that turning off AutoCorrect might make a difference to whether the query runs - but I don't want to turn it off.
Is it possible to follow a hyperlink to a file without using a file extension?
I have links being created based on the name of a file, but because I haven't used a file extension it crashes.
I know I can give the user a choice of what the file extension is and add it to the hyperlink, but it's an extra step, and another place for someone to make a mistake.
I'm potentially using 3 different file types, Word, Excel and PDF's.
The hyperlink works if I just reference a drive/folder, or if I add the file extension.
I have a sub form in DataSheet view and I would like to lock the design so that the User should not change the layout
Even when I set the property of the Datasheet “Allow Design Changes: Design View Only” users are able to unhide the hidden columns and they can also change the size of the column by dragging the column end line
Does any one know how to lock the design of datasheet ( I am using this sub form datasheet for data entry but do not want users to change the layout)
Thanks
Rahul
I'm going to make up names and values -- I'm interested in the structure.
Table ALPHA:
COLA DAT1 DAT2 DAT3
1 5 7 9
2 4 14 8
Table BETA:
COLA_IND DAT1 DAT2 DATN
1 a b c
Table CHARLIE:
COLA_IND DAT1 DAT2
2 d e
Table DELTA:
COLA_IND DAT1 DAT2
2 f g
Ok, the idea here is that the data in table ALPHA contains data with COLA a key such that selecting 2 would yield the data row "4, 14, 8."
Now, COLA_IND is a "COLA" key for table ALPHA (sorry, I can never remember which side is called the foreign key). So, from tables BETA, CHARLIE and DELTA, I can access any row in ALPHA based on the key "COLA_IND"
Here's the fun part. When I build my query, it wants to use an inner join on the keys from all these tables... In order words:
SELECT blah blah blah INNER JOIN blah ON (ALPHA.COLA=BETA.COLA_IND) AND (ALPHA.COLA=CHARLIE.COLA_IND) AND (ALPHA.COLA=DELTA.COLA_IND)
What I'm looking to do is expand BETA, CHARLIE and DELTA with the information from ALPHA based on the key COLA_IND. I don't think this is doing what I want.
Any comments?
Thanks in advance...
Hey,
I've got this problem and im 95% sure its going to need a query in order to achieve this answer im looking for.
I'm creating a Software Licensing Management db and its all working lovely. However my only problem remains is the graphical representation (text box within one of the forms) of howmany licenses are/aren't(doesnt matter if this number is a +/- number) available.
In order to achieve this answer I dont think you'l need the table structure of any of my tables other than these two:
tblLicenseInformation
License_ID
LicenseDescription
NumOfLicensesPurch
SoftwareOverview_ID
tblHardwareSoftwareLicense
HSL_ID
Hardware_ID
Vender_ID
Software_ID
AppEdition_ID
AppVersion_ID
SoftwareOverview_ID
License_ID
However I would like to add a column to either of these tables named 'Availability' or something similar which will show the licenses available.
I've tried a number of Update/Append queries but all have failed. I want this Available running variable held within the table due to it not changing to much of the current db design as i baisically finished the project and they asked for it! any ideas of how to efficiently achieve this will be much appreciated!
cheers
Hi There,
I have built a fairly basic DB to record incoming sales enquiries to our business. When we contact some of those enquiries later we are often asked to call back in 2 months time or 3 months time etc. There is a form within the DB were we can enter the outcome of conversations with the people making the enquiry.
What I want to know is there anything that I can do in Access that in 2 or 3 months time will remind me to call these people?????
The only date within the DB is the date of the incoming enquiry and the date when the brochure is sent to the enquiry.
Any suggestions would be welcomed.
Best Regards
Keith :rolleyes:
I'm looking for a keyboard shortcut to expand the columns in "design view" of a query.
What I mean by this is rather than selecting all of the columns and double clicking to see the entire text, I'd like to be able to a shortcut.
The entire process as I see it involves 3 steps so I will need thesolution to the 3rd step.
(1) [ctrl+spacebar] to select initial column
(2) [shift+arrows] to select all of the columns I need
(3) [keyboard shortcut] will expand all of the columns "field" names to the size of the column heading
Alternatively, if you know of a shortcut that will expand the columns without having to select them first I'll take it!!
hello everyone
i found myself trying to write this outer join query and i realised that probably i need to improve my design rather than write the query! so here goes
i've created a form which a user can navigate through to look at various jobs which have been done (its a loft insulation database)
now one of the things the users need to do is to arbitarily choose jobs for which they are going to phone up the customer and check the work was completed satisfactorily for QA purposes
the table containing information about the jobs has a yes/no field "selectedForQA" which comes up as a checkbox on the form so they can just check the jobs they decide to check up on
i wrote a query which runs on click of a a command button "send selected to QA" which is just an append query sticking primary keys of the jobs table into another table TBL_QAList which has other fields 'contacted', 'satisfactory' and 'notes' for them to check when they have phoned the customer
of course i can't simply rely on the Append query because the jobs previouly loaded into QAList will still be checked and the append will try and append the same data twice cauzing a primary key violation
i don't doubt that it must be possible to only append those records which aren't already in the table (i believe its an outer join to return the records in neither of two tables? - i could then append the results of that query?) but anyhow the fact that i'd have to do something of that sort suggests to me my design is screwed up in the first place
i know that its bad to have the same data in two tables but all i would have replicated here would be the primary key and when i present the data to the user i use the table relationships to get them all the contact details etc that doesn't get copied across tables
maybe the better solution is to have no QAList table just the jobs table (with sentToQA field) and a QADone table - then the form the user sees can get its data from a query which finds those jobs for which Jobs.selectedForQA = True AND which are not in the QADone table and when they check the done box on their form the record gets added to QADone
have i just answered my own question or is there a yet better way of doing this? or was i on the right track in the first place?
I have 5 plants (when this was orginally created there was 1) I need to develop a report showing defect by suppliers. A user would select a supplier from a combo box, and using a query would show each reject number by supplier. I can get query to work, for only 1 plant as soon as I select another plant no records display. Any ideas
View 10 Replies View RelatedI have some tables that are set up as follows (these are not the actual names of the tables and fields, I'm using generic names so that I don't get a bunch of questions about the setup to begin with; I believe they are set up in the best possible way):
Table1 has a one to many relationship with Table2
Table1 has a one to many relationship with Table3
Table2 has a many to many relationship with Table3
Fields for Table1
Table1_ID
Field1Table1
Fields for Table2
Table2_ID
Table1_ID
Field1Table2
Fields for Table3
Table3_ID
Table1_ID
Field1Table3
Field2Table3
Field3Table3
Fields for Table4
Table2_ID
Table1_ID
Can anyone offer some advice on the best way to set up some forms for data entry with these tables? I think having Table1 be the recordsource for a parent form, having Table2 be the recordsource for one subform, and having Table3 be the recordsource of another subform would work for the one to many relationship between Table1 and Table2 and the one to many relationship between Table 1 and Table3. But I can't figure out how to then include the many to many relationship between Table2 and Table3.
I could not find Menu design in Access...Is it available during design time?
When I searched for it I found AddMenuItem to programatically add menu...
I vaguely remember seeing menu design in VB 3.0 7 years ago...I am looking for something similiar..
This probably the simplest and stupidest question..please excuse me for that.
Thanks
What would be the best way to capture the attached "Customer Satisfaction Survey" Access, Excel etc.
The plan is to take this survey once a month over the phone and provide a report about the outcome to the president.
Thank you in advance.
Danny
I have set up a form that picks up reports from my database.
The structure of this form is:
Select Company Code Unbound
Select Report Drop down list of reports linked
Year and Period
*** The company code refers to 5 different company codes.
The report is then linked to a select query. Criteria has been written into company code field:
Company code
[Forms]![frmMissingClientCodes]![cmpcode]
If I select company code then a report and then type in my year and period on the form I receive a parameter box which asks me to enter company code.
Does anyone know why this is occuring and to prevent this?
Thanks
Paul
Hi There,
Im building a database that stores invoices and keeps a running total of all invoices accumulated per customer. Right now I have it so that on the form it Dlookup's a unit price and then divides it by the running total to get the total units accumulated as well as it displays the total money accumulated. The problem is, a few times in a year some unit prices will change. If a user updates this change then it will mess up the total unit count and the units to date will be wrong due to the new unit price. I'm wondering how i could overcome this problem. I was thinking along the lines of saving the total units accumulated in another table, reseting the entire form to zero, and some appending the old unit count to the reseted value... This probably sounds very confusing, but any help to just get me started would be greatly appreciated!!!
thanks!
Hello everyone. Im relatively new to access, i've only been using it for a few weeks. There are certain aspects that I cannot get my head around.
Is anyone willing to let me email them what I have done so far and the criteria for the database I am making and advise me where I am going wrong and where I need to be heading to get it right?
Thanks very much. Any help will be very much appreciated.