Difficult Situation

BSmith

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I'm currently building a monster database that requires a massively intricate reporting structure.

I've hit a brick wall with a report that I need to create. I'll explain..

I have a table that includes this type of structure:

selected card # bfl access restore planning
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yes 1 23 45 27 38
yes 2 43 12 63 24
yes 3 83 15 33 28


Now each "Card #" in the above table has "jobs" associated with it that have thier own "access" and "restore" hours. But, each specific job number can be associated with more than one "card #".

Example:

Job # Card # Access Restore
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1 1 23 45

2 1 43 12

2 2 83 15

3 1 83 15

3 2 83 15

What I have now is a form that selects the card and a report based on that card's hours. No problem there.

But, since the card is the selectable item, I run into a problem tieing the job# to the card # and not getting duplicate job hours.

Example:

If Card # 1 is selected, my report shows all hours associated with it and since Card # 2 has the same job #, my report would calculate that job's hours twice if card # 2 is selected along with card #1.


In summary, what I need is to be able to select card #s and have all associated hours to total and if duplicate jobs happen to fall into this report, their hours are not duplicated in the calculation.

Did I confuse anyone? Sorry....
 
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Well the formatting of my tables didn't work out. I hope you can make sense of it anyway.
 
Disregard.... I figured it out.

I just made 3 queries in which the third showed unique job #'s.
 
You do not have your tables properly defined. There seems to be a parent/child relationship between Job and Card and hours should be stored with the job rather than with the card.
 
Thanks for the reply Pat! After putting my theory into place, it did NOT work as I intended.

I'm not sure I understand your answer though. Could you elaborate? Thanks!
 

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