I finished a db for a client to help her keep track of the classes she teaches, her students and other related info. The db has several tables and one main form with subforms. I read that it was a good rule of thumb to design the fewest posible forms to make the navigation centrilized and so I did. (I also spent some time on making it look less Access like, more of a stand alone app and wish to preserve it)
Up to this point the client was using Outlook to store all the contact info plus anything else she could jam into various "notes" fields. Now she wishes to have some simillar futures in the db to the ones outlook offered, one of them:
being able to open multiple contacts (records) in new windows. So basically she wants to open many instances of the main form so she can jump between the records without closing the previous one. My question is: what is the nicest (cleanest from the point of db design) way of giving her such functionality? I thought about giving her an option to open the new record (student) in a tab, but I'm not sure how to acomplish that. Another way would be to copy the main form several times and open those as she clicks on "open in new window", but I don't think it's a good solution, becsue: e.g. How many copies do I create? I'd have to go over all the vba in each copy and adjust it so it works properly with the copy, plus all the vba in each subform... :eek:
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated on how to tackle this. Also what are the consequences of having several instances of the same form open (editing same record by mistake, etc..)
I have an Access based CRM system that was built for me in 1998. Amazingly it is still pretty effective. However, I would like to make a small adjustment in the programming..
Once we've added the details for an order we press continue and the screen closes and one copy of the acknowledgement of order form. I simply want it to print three copies!
I believe this is the coding part of the command that is effected.
Rem Print Report DoCmd.OpenReport "Order Acknowledgement" Rem Close Form DoCmd.Close acForm, "Booking Entry"
Our access database keep track of children attending an after-school music programme.
Each week we print registers and give them to the class teachers for them to mark who is coming. The registers are produced as a report, grouped by School then by Class.
We run 3 times a week so each week I need to print off 3 copies of the registers for each class.
Is there a way to print multiple copies of each group in a report? This would save me quite a bit of time each week.
In Access 2007 is it possible to alter a macro so I can print 2 copies of a report. I have created a simple macro which opens up a report based on a value in a data entry form. I want to automatically print 2 copies of the report. Is this possible....
This works just fine in creating the desired result - EXCEPT I don't get all the records.
When I remove the 'cartesian table', and right join everything, then I get the correct results. If I keep everything as-is and reintroduce the cartesian table, then I get an error about there being an ambiguous outer join.
My report produces multiple copies of the same record. I know why, but don't know how to fix it.
EmployeeTable.
With a one to many relationship with TrainingTable (via employee PK as FK in trainingtable).
Training table has a one to many relationship with a table called Range.
Report is based on a query that picks up the Employee/Training/Range (range just describes the training unit).
However, If I have more than one range expressed organized a training unit, the report spits out several copies of the Employee record to display all the ranges.
I am trying to add to a db I inherited. One of the end reports that is produced is a cost breakdown for each end user.As things stand, the data collates into individual reports which are then grouped into one file and saved via PDF. What I am trying to work out is whether or not I can selectively pick some of those reports to have more than one copy.
I see a form (within an existing form) that will list all of the end users for a particular scheme and, next to that, be a dropdown that will allow the db user to select how many copies of each report needs to be published. These will then collate merrily into one document to be saved to PDF.
I have a form in Access with a command button that prints a receipt (which is actually created as a report). Anyway, I want 2 copies of this receipt to print when the print receipt button is clicked. Please take a look at my code and tell me what I would need to be able to accomplish this. Thanks.
rivate Sub PrintRec_Click() On Error GoTo Err_PrintRec_Click
Dim rstTrans As New ADODB.Recordset Dim fld As ADODB.Field Dim strField As String Dim curCount As Currency
If IsNull(Me.TempTransNumID.value) Then 'this is new record rstTrans.AddNew Else 'to stay on the record that was just inserted for editing rstTrans.Find ("TransNumID=" + Str$(Me.TempTransNumID)) End If
If Me.cboPaymentMethod = "Check" And IsNull(CheckNum) Then 'Check number not entered MsgBox "You must enter a check no.", vbCritical, "Check Number Verification" CheckNum.SetFocus Exit Sub End If
rstTrans.Update 'this was a new record so update the form value of TransNumID for edit If IsNull(rstTrans!TransNumID.value) <> True Then Me.TempTransNumID = rstTrans!TransNumID.value End If
I realise this could well go against almost every DB rule in the book, but figured I would ask it anyway!
I have a database, which pulls all it's data from other databases - some in SQL, some in Oracle, and some from other Access DBs.
It then combines it all, performs dozens of queries on it, and allows me to produce necessary reports on it - all fine.
I have been asked to make it save historical copies of all the data it uses. The reason for this is the Financial Services Authority, who insist that the checks we are doing on this data is all stored, so that if an auditor arrives tomorrow, and asks me to prove the data from 3 months ago was processed correctly, I have to be able to come up with that 3 month old data.
I thought the easiest thing to do would be to use a series of make-table queries to move all the tables data to an external database, which can then be archived.
Does anyone have a way of allowing me to save the entire database, as at NOW - to another database? I would need to make all the tables LOCAL, rather than linked?
Thanks! (and sorry for the unnecessarily long post!)
I want to print 3 copies of a report named Invoice with different remark i.e. Customer Copy, Office Copy, Auditor Copy. I want to print all 3 copies with a single print command.
Can any one help me. Sample database is in attachmant.
I tried the search and while I found some things related to my issue, I couldn't really come to a conclusion on my issue.
I have all the databases on the network set to compact on close. This is resulting in a new copy of the compacted database with the generic "db1.mdb" file name every time the db is compacted. It also does not compact the correct one.
So, basically...it is copying the db, compacting it, but not deleting the old one and renaming the new one.
If I copy the database to my hard drive, it compacts, deletes, and renames sucessfully.
The only thing I can think of at this point is there's some issue with the server. But this is happening on multiple servers.
I grabbed a mdb template for customers/workorders from MS. I am trying to modify the "workorder labor" form in design view to have the first field be a manually filled in date, followed by start time, then finish time.
I got the boxes to show up.
The problem is that when I enter a date all the fields in that column are filled with the same information.
I tried variations of using a mask and format. I tried it as a text box from scratch and copying an existing one.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Nett
I have a simple database at the moment which I would like to put onto two laptops. The laptops would be used for entering information when out on a job (no network or email connection).
What I would want to do is have a database on a desktop in the office so when the laptops come back into the office they can update the office database with the information on the laptop database.
I have to make a new copy of a db starting with a blank db and importing all the objects into the blank. (Corruptions issues).
When a blank db is made, and the objects imported into it, the security permissions do not copy over. The only way I know how to get the security permissions back is to redo them in the new copy. It's a big db. Lots of time. Ugh.
Is there any way to copy and paste the security permissions from one db to another?
Ruralguy suggested that i made a new thread - so I'm taking his advice (H)
I've got another problem, well not problem..i want to make it more user-friendly.
Database= 21238 (Look for yourself see what i mean) (rename to .RAR if it doesn't open)
Basically, when the user adds a book, they can add it easily.. the only problem is, when ..just say i want to add a book, and I have 10 copies of this book, I have to add the book first and the go into the ADD_BOOK_COPY form and then select the book which i want to add more copies of and click add - i repeat this for the total amount of copies that i have. So if i had 10 copies of 1 book, i add, and then go into a seperate form and then click this button 9 more extra times. Which, can cause headahces!
So basically, i'm thinking of implementing a new way to do this, i was thinking about.. When i got to add a book, there's a List/Combo box with 1-20 into So i can add the book, and then select how many copies, click 'add' and this will add 20 copies of that bookm firstly by adding it to the 'book' table and then adding 20 copies to the book_copy table..
Is there anyone who would like to help with this? :' )
I am working with an already intact database along with a form. One of the buttions in the form, when pressed, prints two copies of a P.O. One copy says original on the bottom and the other says PX Copy and my boss wants the PX Copy to stop printing. How do I get it to stop?
I have a split db that has been in use for a few years by about 12 people. The front end is compiled into an accde file.
Ocasionally a user (randomly) might get an error message "Microsoft has detected that this database is in an inconsistent state...." when closing the db and when that happens, a copy of the front end is automatically placed on their desktop.
This front end is always deleted and the original front end continues to work just fine afterwards.
Why are my users getting this error message? Why is the front end automatically copied onto their desktops?
I have an old access database (written with 2003 but running under 2010) that creates workorders and I need to change a couple of the reports to print three copies with each copy having different text in the footer. I'm converting the reports from a old DOT Metrix special form printer to a laser printer. I have already modified the reports as far as the titleing and cosmetics are concerned and they print and look great on the laser printer. I have also added a TxT box that I want to contain the information on the report.
The reports are generated in a couple of different ways off different screens in the system off buttons, but I figured if I can get one of them to work I can replicate it to the others.
I have gone through the reports forum and have found a couple of solutions but can't get them to work. This is what I have found:
On the on button to print a range of workorders (it drives a query that asks for a starting workorder number and a ending workorder number) click from the from the switchboard:
I have my application split, BE and FE. This is a form with a subform.For both I have the properties set to
Data Entry NO Allow additions NO Allow Deletions NO Allow Edits NO
anyone person can open the form, but when a second person tries to open the same form we get the standard, locked by user or user does not have permission.If user 1 logs out then user 2 can get in. So it seems not a permission issue but some setting I have wrong. maybe at the query or table level?
I have a form that I created that allows the user to input an "ExhibitNo" and then a "PlacingNo" to allow each entry to receive a set monetary amount (based on values in a table).
The "ExhibitNo" has two references linked to it. They are "ClassNo" and "ExhibitorID".
My supervisors want me to make it so that when the "ExhibitNo" is entered on the form that it will not allow a monetary amount.
This is where I started, but it does not work. Does anyone have a better idea?
Private Sub Combo14_AfterUpdate() Me.Refresh If [ClassNo] >= 0 >= 5000 Then If [ExhibitorNo] <= 0 >= 499 Then If [Placinggrade] = "Blue" Then [Premium] = [Blue] End If If [Placinggrade] = "Red" Then [Premium] = [Red] End If If [Placinggrade] = "White" Then [Premium] = [White] End If End If End If
If [ClassNo] >= 5000 Then If [ExhibitorNo] <= 500 Then If [Placinggrade] = "Blue" Then [Premium] = [Blue] End If If [Placinggrade] = "Red" Then [Premium] = [Red] End If If [Placinggrade] = "White" Then [Premium] = [White] End If End If End If
If [ClassNo] >= 5000 Then If [ExhibitorNo] >= 500 Then [Premium] = 0 End If End If
I am a total novice with MS Access (2002) and coding so I am trying to learn by adapting the Northwind sample.
So far, one thing has completely stumped me and that is controlling images. I understand the benefits/pitfalls of storing images in the database and have concluded that it will suit me better to link my images via a text field.
What I am trying to do is add multiple images to the Northwind Employee Form. I have followed the help file and I can get additional images to display on the form, but I can not get the additional images to change for each record. The MS Access help only covers having a single image per record. I've concluded (right or wrong) that the Event Procedure is where I need to be experimenting, but I've had no luck so far.
Can anyone tell me if I can modify the Event Procedure in the Northwinds Employee sample to cope with multiple images, or is there another way?
Excuse me if any of my terminology is wrong... I really am new to this.
how could i get multiple values shown in 1 form only? i currently have a code to look through 6 fields and if the fields iar blank, you get a a message box. you press ok and the next message is shown for the next field if it is blank but it would be so much better to have 1 message box showing all blank fields required to be filled in.
all it does is check the fields as these are required before continuing. if anyof the fields are blank, then it tells you and you cannot continue untl they are all filled. it seems easy in my head!!
im sure this can be done but im not quite sure how.
I have a form that has seven unbound fields named txtCityCriteria1 through txtCityCriteria7
The idea is to have the use type in up to seven cities and have this applied to the criteria of the city field in a query. This query is the datasource for a report. I know how to do a single text ....
[Forms]![frm_OpenReport]![txtCityCriteria1]
in the criteria row would do the job. But how can I do seven?
Oh and if all are left blank i need it to open another form that informs them of their mistake.
I have looked through these forums and have found several possible solutions but I can not get any to work. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Take it easy on me I am relatively new to this code thing. Used to do everything in macros.
