Ok, so let's simplify the problem a bit. Assume we have 3 roles: Manager,
Worker, and Secretary, and 5 classes, A, B, C, D, & E. Manager is required
to take clases A, B, & C, Worker is required to take classes B, C, & D, and
Secretary is required to take classes D & E. So you're suggesting the tables
would look
like this?

tblRole:
1 Manager
2 Worker
3 Secretary

tblCourse
1 A
2 B
3 C
4 D
5 E

tblRoleRequiredCourse
1 1 1
2 1 2
3 1 3
4 2 2
5 2 3
6 2 4
7 3 4
8 3 5

tblRoleRequiredCourse contains a lot of duplicates, both role numbers and
course
numbers. With the data in Excel roles and courses are only entered once
with a Y/N or 1/0 at the intersection indicating that the class is required.
Is there no way to take advantage of that type of format in Access?

Cheryl

"Steve" wrote:

I suggest the following tables:

TblDepartment
DepartmentID
Department

TblEmployee
EmployeeID
BadgeNumber
FirstName
LastName
DepartmentID

TblRole
RoleID
Role

TblCourse
CourseID
Course

TblRoleRequiredCourse
RoleRequiredCourseID
RoleID
CourseID

TblEmployeeRole
EmployeeRoleID
EmployeeID
RoleID

TblEmployeeCourseCompleted
EmployeeCourseCompletedID
EmployeeID
CourseID
DateCompleted


Steve




"Cheryl" wrote in message
...
I am new to Access (using 2007) and partly as a learning experience, I'm
trying to build a database to handle training records for my division.

So far I have four tables - although I'm not sure I really need one of
them
- tblEmployees, tblRoles, tblCCC, and tblCourses. tblCCC is a list of
department identifiers and is the one that might go away. I will probably
need another table for employee roles, since an employee can have multiple
roles. And of course I will need a table to hold the actual training
data.

tblEmployee contains lngAutoID, strBadge (PK), strLastName, strFirstName,
strCCC, ysnActive

tblRoles contains lngAutoID (PK) and strRoles

tblCourses contains lngAutoID (PK) and strCourseName

Courses are assigned to an employee based on their role. I have an Excel
spread sheet with roles as column headers (B2:K2) and class names down
column
A (A2:A26). An X in the intersection between role and class indicates
that
that class is required for that role.

How do I take that data and turn it into Access object(s) that I can
query,
use in reports, etc. Any other thoughts on the design thus far would be
greatly appreciated!

Thank you!


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