Limit Characters Per Field
May 9, 2006Hi:
I have a table with one field for comments. The problem is the limit of the capacity of words, that you can type.
Any sugestions ????
Thanks for your time
Hi:
I have a table with one field for comments. The problem is the limit of the capacity of words, that you can type.
Any sugestions ????
Thanks for your time
I would like to know how to limit a field on a form to only Alpha Numeric characters.
Example: ~AAUZNTO
This would be scanned by a bar code and I want the field to show only this when scanned: AAUZNTO
Is there a way to limit the number of characters that can be entered into an unbound textbox on my form?
I have a search textbox, where a jobId is entered and button is clicked to search. The numbers are generally 8-digit. I just noticed one of my users trying to enter 9489858939349839434 :eek: ohh lawd. Please help me stop these people before they break my db...
I have a data entry form with a memo control physically sized to match the allowable space for this information when printed on a report.
Basically, I need to be able to stop the user from further input when the cursor reaches the lower right corner of the memo control. Beeping when reaching the limit is acceptable, but a pop-up message would be ideal.
I have not been able to find a solution that will limit the amount of text displayed in the memo control that will also include however many LF's a user inputs. All of the search results refer to only limiting the number of characters and do not take into account LF's.
I am new to Access and would appreciate all suggestions.
Hey all,
I have two fields 1 & 2
field 1 is a simple combo list of user defined values ie A, B, C or D
Field 2 relates to a attribute of the data in field 1 and is not always the same for A, B, C and D. i.e
A could have a,b,c,d or e
B could have c,e,f,g or h
C could have a,g,h,i or j
D could have v,w,x,y or z
I would field 2 to have a combo box which only displays a,b,c,d, or e when A is chosen in field 1; c,e,f,g or h when B is chosen; etc
How do I do this?
Cheers all,
Matt :confused:
I am creating a training database and first I have tables in relationship to the courses:
tbl_Courses
Course ID (Primary Key)
Course Title
Objectives
Instructors (lookup field allowing multiple instructors to be selected, meaning they are skilled to teach the course)
tbl_Instructors
Instructor ID (Primary Key
Last Name
First Name
Full Name (Caluclated to put Last Name, First Name)
[code]....
What I am trying to do on a form to create a new event is once the user selects the Course from the Course ID combo box, then I need the Instructor combo box to only display the instructors who are skilled to teach the course which are selected in the tbl_Courses.
I can get all Instructor ID's, but not the names and the class that has multiple instructors show on one line.Should I have not put the Instructors field in the tbl_Courses? Do I need another table for instructor skills or something?
In one table I want to limit the options of one field depending on what is chosen in another field.
Field Type has two options: Receivable and Payable.
I want field Sybtype with this limits:
If Receivable is chosen in Type field you will only have CreditCard & Lockbox available in the Subtype field. If Payable is chosen you will only have Cheque & Transfer to choose.
Shall I have two separate tables? or only one table with Type and SubType as below? but then how can I make the above work?
Type SubType
Receivable CreditCard
Receivable Lockbox
Payable Cheque
Payable Transfer
Hi,
I have a fairly simple database that looks like the attached. It is the beginnings of a school database. Unfortunately, the MS template doesn't quite do it.
We have around 700 pupils in 5 year groups. Each year's intake is assigned the year of that intake (e.g. 2002, 2003 etc).
The youngest pupils are in Year 7 whilst the oldest are in year 11.
Each Class is assigned based on the intake year but given the name of the schooling year - (e.g. year 7, year 8 etc). And there are 6 classes per year - hence names 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 etc.
My "Students and Classes" table should combine both the classes and pupils. However, I want to be able to firstly select the class to put the pupil into (and hence infer the induction year), then just show in the next filed only
the pupils that belong to that induction year and hence go into the selected class.
However I design my lookup or query, I can't seem to figure out how to do this, or if this can even be done.
Any help is much appreciated.
Chris
I am sure there is an easier way fo doing this, but I am looking one at a time!!!
I want to know what is the Max and Min number of characters used in each field of my table.
I am using this code below, the max will be at the top and then scroll to the bottom to find the min, but as can be seen this is doing one field at a time and is very time consumining!
SELECT tbl05to06.Account, Len([Account]) AS MyAccount
FROM tbl05to06
ORDER BY Len([Index Key]) DESC , Len([Centre]) DESC , Len([Account]) DESC;
Hi,
Simple question really (if you know your VBA)...
Have a field which contains records of strings of alphabetic characters i.e.
ADGHJLP
BCEFHIJKLMOPST
etc
Need to be able to separate these characters with a '/' so that the field reads
A/D/G/H/J/L/P
B/C/E/F/H/I/J/K/L/M/O/P/S/T
etc
I know it'll be a For..Next loop of some kind but can't seem to get the syntax correct.
Any help appreciated.
cheers,
Alex
Hello All,
How would you make a field exactly 8 characters. I know how to only allow a field to be up to 8 characters, but not exactly 8...please help.
Thanks
Josh
Hello,
I want to remove the first four characters from a field in a query.
The data are not always the same length, but it will always be the first four.
Example.
vmc_ml120e21/p -> ml120e21/p
Is that possible and how??
Thanks in advance.
I have a field "DisplayURL" that contains values of various lengths. Some are only 12 or 13 characters long, but others are 50 characters long. I need to run an update query to "cut-off" all the characters past the 35 limit - so that all records in the field will be 35 characters or less.
I've searched this forum and online and there are similar posts but nothing quite like this, I thought it would be a trim function but I keep reading that it only removes spaces. Any ideas?
Is there documentation/reading out there on how to query fields and take only a certain number of characters from said field?
We are setting up a user database on a 3rd party web application and they have a 15 character username limit so we want to pull the first 3 letters of a persons first name, middle initial, and first 4 letters of a persons last name to use as the username. We have an Access database will all of this information but I am not sure what the correct query is to complete this task.
John P Roberts = JohPRobe
Any workaround so that I can place more characters than the 64 limited in a field header.
In essence, I need to export a text or CSV file from Access every day, and the row header for the first column (i.e, in cell A1 if opened in excel) needs to read:
"Action (SiteID=US|Country=US|Currency=USD|ListingType=Hal f|Location=US|ListingDuration=GTC)"
I am currently unable to have a field header with that length, because Access does not allow my table header to be more than 64 characters.
Can someone please tell me the Maximum no of fields you can have in Access 2007 and if the limit is 255 then how can one get around this problem?
Thank you,.
I have a table that I need to identify the records in that have specific text in one of the fields, the field also contains other data. i.e. the field (accessdescription) can contain any combination of the following text (Bridge, Report, Email). and I want to list only the records that have email in this field, noting that the field usually contains at least two of the possible entries.
Any pointers in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Jubb
Please help if somebody knows the way to increase the character limit of field from 255 to max. possible.
Thanks
Navkesh
to show only those dates between a certain time interval as in:
between jan 1 2007 to jan 1st 2008?
Is there a certain type of format I need to type into the criteria field of the query?
Thanks in advance!
is there any way to increase the size of the text field beyond the 255 character limit? I'm creating an incident report and its diffilcult to summarize an accident in less than 255 characters.
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I'm new here and attempted to search on this topic, but didn't seem to find anything pertaining to my problem...
I'm attempting to export a table using TransferSpreadsheet to an Excel 8-9 file, but one of the fields in my records is over 255 characters long. Importing it into Access works fine, but after I export it to the Excel file, it truncates the field to 255 characters. Is there a way around this?
I'm using Access 2000 and Excel 2000.
I have to import a field from Excell that contains more than 50 characters in the field.
I need the line to stop at the last complete word prior to 50 characters and start the next record in that field automaticly and continue to fill and wrap at the last complete word prior to 50 characters.
Would it be better to do this in another Office 2K program?
I have several thousand lines to type if this can't be automated. What a drag.
TIA
M :confused:
Hi Folks,
I have a table called tblSchemeCodes with the following field names:
Field Name Data Type Field Size Required Indexed
strCompany Text 1 Yes No
strSchemeCode Text 3 Yes Yes(No Duplicates)
strSchemeName Text 100 Yes No
strOrigNo Text 9 Yes No
strCategory Text 9 Yes No
dtmDateAdded Date/Time No No
Here is an example of some of the scheme codes I have:
HG
HGA
HGB
HGD
HGF
HGG
HGJ
HGP etc etc
however when I try to add HGE, it won't allow it, even though it doesn't exist within the table, it keeps changing it from HGE to HE, and HE already exists, so a can't add messgage pops up, which is should, because duplicates are not permiited.
I've tried turning off all of the required aspects and changed the "Yes (no Duplicates)" to "No", and the problem persists!!
Has anyone any idea why access would behave in this way and how I might resolve it.
Any assistance would be appreciated
John
I know this can be done, but I cannot remember how, hoping someone can save me some time:I have a field with values like this:5221231234I want to append zeros to the front of the field data using a query so the value in the field will always be five charactere long and will be padded withing eading zeros, like this:00005000220012301234Sorry for the easy question, will appreciate any help.Thanks!
View 8 Replies View RelatedI trying to figure out how to remove the last 3 Characters from my data
Such as
MA-D-97
MA-09
UJS-KK-OL-20
Like the data to look like
MA-D
MA
UJS-KK-OL
I Have This so far
Right([TYPEFY],3)
that selects the last three now is there a remove function I can use??
Remove(Right([TYPEFY],3) ???
Need help thanks
I need to query a field for any records where this field has less that 10 characters. Any suggestions? The reason is depending on the type of customer the field can be 10 or 11 digits. IF there are less than 10 but not blank they need to be pulled for correction.
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