Recent content by zim_ulator

It sounds like I'm in good company in considering the concepts of Party and Roles. Thanks for your input. Denis

Thanks for your input about the business rules. I've got that part as tidy as possible now. The idea of many recipients related to many donors was considered. It doesn't fit with our requirements, and as you suggested, it would add uneeded complexity. Thanks very much for your input. Getting...

The_Doc, Thanks for your input. Ah, the old I both do and don't believe answer... my wife loves that one :D I was a FoxPro developer in a previous incarnation, doing work for the jewelry industry, and later the energy industry. My last gig, we used Tom Rettig's Office (TRO) to get us...

For some months now, I've been working on a redesign of a system for a Non-Profit needing to track donors and donations. About two months have been devoted to spelunking, carefully exploring the labyrinthine artifacts, efforts of previous consultants, trying to make some sense of strangely...

I guess I wasn't clear. Must have been pretty tired, I confused myself with the last post. note to self: stop smoking those turnip greens :D I was referring to the built in button with the >* symbols on it. zim apologises for wasting bandwidth, and spontaneously combusts

_doc_ I'm uncertain about what you mean by broader view. As for wizards, I am using them here and there, but less frequently as I learn more about Access and VB. I'm thinking about adapting wizards to my own preferences. There's a cool addin called V-Tools; it's got a quick way to create and...

Ken, Thanks for your response. I'm looking into better ways to handle errors than the default behavior, and there's lots of material here to draw from.

Pat, Thanks for your input. As far as I know, I am using bound forms. Did I imply that I'm using unbound? Denis

The problem was that I couldn't reliably trigger my Undo code; the solution lay in the fact that a NULL cannot be used in a comparison. I found a function which helped me understand this, so now all of my code runs as expected. The big dig? Argh! It's a travesty!

John, Thanks for that question: I'd like to know as well with regard to Access 2000. I think I'm using bound forms if I understand what a bound form is. I elected to adapt some code I found for the record count and to move the record pointer,a s well as adding and editing buttons. Letting a...

Does anyone feel that this really basic error trapping code Exit_btnEditRecord_Click: Exit Sub Err_btnEditRecord_Click: MsgBox Err.Description Resume Exit_btnEditRecord_Click (which I believe Access pops in by default when using those "wizardy" thingies. ) are nessesary? If all...

Hello all, I'm new-ish to Access, having developed in FoxPro some time ago, I keep finding analogies and parallels between the two to the extent that I'm developing a relational database. I've decided to make my forms to be similar in functionality to my old work. With FP I used TRO and...