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  1. MajP

    Fairly New and Need Help

    New feature for filtering call list.
  2. MajP

    Solved How to print underscores instead of a field value, in a report

    @arnelgp I believe your question 2 should be a multiple choice with many possible correct choices.
  3. MajP

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    Added call details so all functionality should exist 1. Create customers 2. Create customer properties 3 log payment status (bad check, missed payment...) 2. create a call and assign a property / customer 3. assign an appointment to a call 4. add service information to an appointment
  4. MajP

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    So you need another subform to show the services for that appointment. If you want all of that on the dashboard you can shrink things down to make room an add the "Services" subform. The tricks is to show and hide that subform only for calls with assigned appointments. If not that form is...
  5. MajP

    Solved How to print underscores instead of a field value, in a report

    Surely not. It only prints the first character of any string characterRequired; Variant. Character code specifying the character or string expression whose first character is used to build the return string. If character contains Null, Null is returned. ?string(10,"ABC") AAAAAAAAAA...
  6. MajP

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    So another example of a future feature that will be needed. Eventually your call list will get extremely large with old calls. That list will no longer be useable. I can envision an option group at the top of the list to filter what you want to see. Calls needing appointments Calls with...
  7. MajP

    Solved How to print underscores instead of a field value, in a report

    As pointed out that is pretty unusable. Mark's modified on the left used in a query and yours on the right. SELECT [Q] & ": " & GetRSPUnderscore ([a]) AS QandA, [Q] & ": " & String (Len([a]), "_") AS Demo FROM Table1;
  8. MajP

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    This is kind of my point. If you have a form that does one thing only, it is real easy to use solutions right out of the box and it will be useable and understandable. It becomes kind of a catch 22. As you add more complexity to the form you need more bells and whistles to make it...
  9. MajP

    Solved How to print underscores instead of a field value, in a report

    I added to the function in case you have multiple word answers. Public Function GetRSPUnderscore(Text As String, Optional Per_Char = 4) As String Dim i As Integer Dim tmp For i = 1 To Len(Text) If Mid(Text, i, 1) = " " Then tmp = tmp & " " Else...
  10. MajP

    Solved How to print underscores instead of a field value, in a report

    I would assume you are calling this from a query so I would make Marks function Public and make the width a parameter. Public Function GetRSPUnderscore(Text As String, Optional Per_Char = 4) As String Dim i As Integer Dim tmp For i = 1 To Len(Text) tmp = tmp & " " &...
  11. MajP

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    Here are a couple fixes making it more intuitive The selected row in the call log is gold making it clear which one you are looking at The New call button is more prominent I made the linking of the subforms easier by binding the recordsource of the main form to the same query as the call log...
  12. MajP

    Fairly New and Need Help

    Here is a working demo. This ban be a lot cleaner and add lots of bells and whistles but this is to demo trying to put all info and functions at your finger tips. 1. Need to create a new call. Pick a property (thus a customer). 2. Either create an appointment immediately or have a way to come...
  13. MajP

    Fairly New and Need Help

    Do you plan to track work orders and parts against the service?
  14. MajP

    Fairly New and Need Help

    Also I think in the table I call payment status, you need a field Resolved Date If customer 1 is Past Due on 1/1/2026 and makes payment on 3/1/2026 you want to mark that as resolved. Now you have a history of late payments and how quickly they resolve the issue. Also in the service call details...
  15. MajP

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    So as it is set up you can use the customer table as your billing address, but you still have to add that address to the property table if you also dispatch to that property. If this just represents a mailing address then it does not have to be duplicated in the properties table. In the future...
  16. MajP

    Overlay Controls

    See if this works. Seems a simpler interface If provides a pop up date picker on dates and validates dates using a double click. Might need to add a note to do that. If validates all other fields of form single <.99, >.99 and I did >= and <= int <99 or >99 and >=, <= text is anything.
  17. MajP

    Overlay Controls

    I do not think you will be able to do that. Only one can have the focus and thus only one can be in front of the value control. However I do not really see how this "assists" anything except for providing date fields with a date picker. If not it simply enforces rules. If I was doing this I...
  18. MajP

    Fairly New and Need Help

    I will ask it a different way. Which address information do you envision in the customer table and what goes in the separate property table. If these types of addresses are not fundamentally different then I would put everything in the properties table. For example if I am a property management...
  19. MajP

    Fairly New and Need Help

    In your business does the customer have multiple properties as well as a main property? The way this is set up it would be like the customer is McDonalds and in the customer table you have a corporate address information for billing but you are going out and servicing individual McDonald...
  20. MajP

    Fairly New and Need Help

    Often novices try to do to much in one place where you are adding, editing, navigating main records and child records. It get hard to design and confusing. The Art is to be able to see some information but very easily get back and forth from the details. So it is a combination of summary...
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