Challenge: Real Time Queries and Lookup

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Greetings!

Hoping somone could help me here.

I am trying to create a database (duh!). At the moment, I have two tables. One table is a small timetable with the fields:

Day, Airline, Flight Number, Time, Origin, Destination, Aircraft

The other table (Delay) has the following fields:

Date, Day, Airline, Flight Number, Time, Origin, Destination, Delayed by.

I would like to do the following. In Delay I put in the date: 01/07/2005, fine. The Day (field format Date/Time dddd) is also 01/07/2005 which Access transofrms into the word "Friday". Airilne is BA. In Flight Numbers, I want the database to do a query on "TIMETABLE" to search all flights that operate on a Friday as some do not operate daily. (By the way in the 'Day' column of Timetable the values are "Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday" or "Monday Thursday Saturday" depending on the flight). This query/lookup should be performed right after I type 01/07/2005 in the "day" field of "Table: Delay". A lookup combo box should be displayed when I arrive at the field FLight Number. I select a flight (e.g.: BA001) and automatically the Time, Origin and Destination of the flight should appear in the "Table: Delay".

I have been unsuccessful at even getting past the first hurdle. I tried a query of the "Table: Timetable" and fields "Day" and "Flight Number". The Criteria I do not know what to put in. "Like [Delay]![Day]" or "[Delay]![Day]" does not help and brings up nothing. However, "Like *Monday*" does bring up all the flights which operate on a Monday. However isn't there some way of telling the query to automatically occur after I type in the relevant day in the "Delay" table? Futhermore I would like to avoid (but not totally exclude if it's impossible) macros as eventually I hope to publish this to SQL or whatever.

Cheers in advance.
 
OK if i got this right.. what you want to do is search for a certain record(s) associated with a certain day?

If so use the Criteria field, under day on your existing query go to criteria and put "friday" That should bring up all flights that are on friday.

Save that query and you can set it to run after you lose focus on the date field on your form

I may hoce got a bit confused for what you want but repost and ill try help again

Mikk
 

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