Hello again all,
I'm sure there's a proper way to phrase this question, but I really don't know how to ask without explaining my goal and the situation... so here goes:
I am building an Access DB and it (when complete) will manage all the personnel and administrative functions for my organization. One part of that is keeping tracking of people and all their information. So I have a table that maintains First Name, Last Name, Date of Birth, phone number, e-mail, etc, etc. A form that I have linked to this table is called "Member File" and I use this for easy access to the information on the individual, or to enter new people in. The table has about 110 fields, and keeps track of almost everything dealing with the individual. Since the "Member file" form is used to enter all this information in, I used the "Tabbed Controls" to separate the form into 8 main categories of information.
In some cases people need to be told where to improve... one of the tabs is intended to maintain this "negative" information. I would like there to be a list box included in this tab that lists all such information on this individual.
So, my problem is two-fold.
-First, I think there should probably be another table that includes all this negative information, then make one of the fields in the table the primary key in the member table, thus identifying the recipient. In this tab of the "Member File" form, I want only the negative information displayed to belong to the person who's record is currently displayed. I assume this is going to require the list box to be populated from a query? Does anyone have any better ideas on how to accomplish this? Also on this tab will be a button to add a piece of such information, which will open a form allowing the user to input this information intended to track negative things (that part I think I can do).
-Second, goes to the "telling them where to improve" idea. I would like for Access to be able to generate a word document that's basically a letter, based on the problem. It should have their name at the top and automatically input text from the "offense" that a user enters into the form. This I have absolutely no idea how to accomplish... :banghead: Any ideas are welcome.
Thanks again!
Pick
I'm sure there's a proper way to phrase this question, but I really don't know how to ask without explaining my goal and the situation... so here goes:
I am building an Access DB and it (when complete) will manage all the personnel and administrative functions for my organization. One part of that is keeping tracking of people and all their information. So I have a table that maintains First Name, Last Name, Date of Birth, phone number, e-mail, etc, etc. A form that I have linked to this table is called "Member File" and I use this for easy access to the information on the individual, or to enter new people in. The table has about 110 fields, and keeps track of almost everything dealing with the individual. Since the "Member file" form is used to enter all this information in, I used the "Tabbed Controls" to separate the form into 8 main categories of information.
In some cases people need to be told where to improve... one of the tabs is intended to maintain this "negative" information. I would like there to be a list box included in this tab that lists all such information on this individual.
So, my problem is two-fold.
-First, I think there should probably be another table that includes all this negative information, then make one of the fields in the table the primary key in the member table, thus identifying the recipient. In this tab of the "Member File" form, I want only the negative information displayed to belong to the person who's record is currently displayed. I assume this is going to require the list box to be populated from a query? Does anyone have any better ideas on how to accomplish this? Also on this tab will be a button to add a piece of such information, which will open a form allowing the user to input this information intended to track negative things (that part I think I can do).
-Second, goes to the "telling them where to improve" idea. I would like for Access to be able to generate a word document that's basically a letter, based on the problem. It should have their name at the top and automatically input text from the "offense" that a user enters into the form. This I have absolutely no idea how to accomplish... :banghead: Any ideas are welcome.
Thanks again!
Pick
