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Old November 29th, 2005, 08:01 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.tablesdbdesign
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Default Task List with tasks link to daily, day of week or other

My response gave the poster EXTENSIVE advice on a way to build his
application. I only offered a calendar form and calendar report to make his
application better. He was free to decide whether he wanted to do this or
not. If I had not offered the calendar form and report, how would the poster
have known that something like this was available?

Abd what is the difference between many consulyants putting their business
name and URL in their signature line and when you click on their URL you go
to a website offering fee-based help and my just saying contact me if you
want some help?

Finally,
Some people are evidently getting a bit carried away with this, and taking
it personally.

Yes you are very correct!! Arno R takes it so personally that he has been
sending unwanted emails to my office. That's what Salad meant when he told
Arno R to grow up and get a life.

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Over 1000 Access users have come to me for help. My fees are very
reasonable.




"mnature" wrote in message
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Advertising/Solicitation: These communities were created as a forum for
providing peer-to-peer assistance on Microsoft products and services. We
ask
that you refrain from posting advertisements or solicitations that do not
pertain directly to the intended use and purpose of the newsgroup or chat.
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These forums are for providing peer-to-peer assistance, which is defined
as
freely given assistance, no strings, no guarantees. When someone asks for
advice on how to do something, that is not the time to offer your non-free
assistance, it is time to offer free assistance. If they ask for names of
individuals or companies that can do this for them (they realize it is
beyond
their capability), then that is a time to offer your company's services
(for
a reasonable fee, of course).

The original poster of this thread was asking for free advice on how to
accomplish a task. You were out-of-line in offering your services (no
matter
how reasonable your fees may be), because they never asked for someone to
do
this for them. That is the distinction I am making, is how the original
poster frames their question. The intended use or purpose of the original
question is for free advice. Your offer of non-free advice/services is in
direct violation of what the original poster was asking for.

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I am attempting to build a database that will generate a task list for
multiple workstations. I have tasks that need to be completed either
daily,
on a certain day of the week, or mutiple days of the week. I am unclear
how
to associate the task(s) with the appropriate frequency.

Also, I would like to have the query use the system clock to determine the
appropriate day of the week.

Thoughts?
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This was the original posting. I do not see, anywhere, that the posting
asks for some commercial site/person that can do this for them. The
posting
is asking for freely given advice (no guarantees, according to the forum
rules), that could help them solve this problem. This is where you
stepped
over the line. If you want to keep your company name in your signature, I
have no problem with that. But you directly solicited the original
poster,
with this:

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I have a week calendar form and report module. It could be used to display
the schedule of tasks for your workstations in a calendar layout. As the
module name implies the form and report look like a page torn off a
calendar. I can implement my calendar form and report module in your
database for a very reasonable fee. If you are interested, contact me at
my
email address below and I will send you a screenshot.
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If, in your advice, you had left out this particular paragraph, I think
you
would have been following the forum rules completely. The fact that your
signature has a small advertisement is not a problem. The fact that you
are
deliberately soliciting for work, when the original poster did not ask for
such solicitation, was where you stepped over the line.

I think it is good to discuss these things, and get them out into the
open.
Some people are evidently getting a bit carried away with this, and taking
it
personally. I would prefer that we keep this as a non-emotional
discussion
of the problem. If someone carries an advertisement in their signature,
but
doesn't directly solicit for business, is that OK on these forums? What
is
the general feeling of the rest of the people who are following this
discussion? Should someone directly solicit, even if the original poster
is
not asking for that type of assistance? These prolonged threads are not
helping people work out their problems.