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Help Request
I do not mean to be negative or overly critical. However, I have been
disappointed with the responses received from posting requests for assistance with problems. Very few times have I actrually received a response that actually worked. Almost none of the code examples I received worked. The information was too vague, assuming I have been programming for a long time. It would help if examples given for code were more complete with instructions on where to actually place the code and where to link it too. I am a visual person and do better with step-by-step instructions and complete code examples. Thank you for your time! j1eggert |
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I'm sorry you have had a bad experience here. Still you have to remember
that everyone who comes here does so as a volunteer and, in many cases, our time is quite limited. We often have to provide answers on the fly. Also, we can only work with the information we are given. We can't see your database or your data. That can make providing the complete step-by-step instructions you want quite difficult. -- Lynn Trapp MS Access MVP www.ltcomputerdesigns.com Access Security: www.ltcomputerdesigns.com/Security.htm Jeff Conrad's Access Junkie List: http://home.bendbroadband.com/conrad...essjunkie.html "j1eggert" wrote in message ... I do not mean to be negative or overly critical. However, I have been disappointed with the responses received from posting requests for assistance with problems. Very few times have I actrually received a response that actually worked. Almost none of the code examples I received worked. The information was too vague, assuming I have been programming for a long time. It would help if examples given for code were more complete with instructions on where to actually place the code and where to link it too. I am a visual person and do better with step-by-step instructions and complete code examples. Thank you for your time! j1eggert |
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Your are correct, and I was probably venting my frustrations. Thank you for
your response. "Lynn Trapp" wrote: I'm sorry you have had a bad experience here. Still you have to remember that everyone who comes here does so as a volunteer and, in many cases, our time is quite limited. We often have to provide answers on the fly. Also, we can only work with the information we are given. We can't see your database or your data. That can make providing the complete step-by-step instructions you want quite difficult. -- Lynn Trapp MS Access MVP www.ltcomputerdesigns.com Access Security: www.ltcomputerdesigns.com/Security.htm Jeff Conrad's Access Junkie List: http://home.bendbroadband.com/conrad...essjunkie.html "j1eggert" wrote in message ... I do not mean to be negative or overly critical. However, I have been disappointed with the responses received from posting requests for assistance with problems. Very few times have I actrually received a response that actually worked. Almost none of the code examples I received worked. The information was too vague, assuming I have been programming for a long time. It would help if examples given for code were more complete with instructions on where to actually place the code and where to link it too. I am a visual person and do better with step-by-step instructions and complete code examples. Thank you for your time! j1eggert |
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On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:18:10 -0700, "j1eggert"
wrote: I do not mean to be negative or overly critical. However, I have been disappointed with the responses received from posting requests for assistance with problems. Very few times have I actrually received a response that actually worked. Almost none of the code examples I received worked. The information was too vague, assuming I have been programming for a long time. It would help if examples given for code were more complete with instructions on where to actually place the code and where to link it too. I am a visual person and do better with step-by-step instructions and complete code examples. Thank you for your time! j1eggert Bear in mind: we who answer questions here are NOT paid tech support. We are volunteers, donating our time; some of us have salaried jobs (and answer in off time), some like me are self employed consultants, some are students. We answer many questions, sometimes many hundreds of questions. Some questions come from experienced people who just need a quick pointer to a solution; some come from people completely new to programming who need more help - it's not always obvious who is in which category! What you're asking is that every answer should be a complete, fully worked out solution requiring no effort or thought on your part, other than copying and pasting the complete code example into your database. I find this unreasonable. If you had hired someone to program your database that would be one thing; but this support is free of charge. Almost anyone here will be glad to clarify points that you're having trouble with, or expand upon an initial quick answer. If your first answer doesn't communicate what you need, please reply to it, requesting more help; if you make it clear that you're trying to learn to solve the problem yourself, and are just having trouble, we'll be glad to help. Just don't ask us to do all your work for you free of charge. John W. Vinson[MVP] |
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I do apologize for my comment, I didn't mean that I was looking for complete
solutions that I could just copy and paste, but a more complete explanation with a little more direction. And, you have not read all the responses to my questions to understand what I am referring to. Most of the responses to my questions have been made under the assumption that I am an experienced programmer. In other fields like techical writing, the standard is to write at the eighth grade level and not assume that everyone can read at the college level. The same standard could apply to this discussion group. Again, I do apologize if I offended you. "John Vinson" wrote: On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:18:10 -0700, "j1eggert" wrote: I do not mean to be negative or overly critical. However, I have been disappointed with the responses received from posting requests for assistance with problems. Very few times have I actrually received a response that actually worked. Almost none of the code examples I received worked. The information was too vague, assuming I have been programming for a long time. It would help if examples given for code were more complete with instructions on where to actually place the code and where to link it too. I am a visual person and do better with step-by-step instructions and complete code examples. Thank you for your time! j1eggert Bear in mind: we who answer questions here are NOT paid tech support. We are volunteers, donating our time; some of us have salaried jobs (and answer in off time), some like me are self employed consultants, some are students. We answer many questions, sometimes many hundreds of questions. Some questions come from experienced people who just need a quick pointer to a solution; some come from people completely new to programming who need more help - it's not always obvious who is in which category! What you're asking is that every answer should be a complete, fully worked out solution requiring no effort or thought on your part, other than copying and pasting the complete code example into your database. I find this unreasonable. If you had hired someone to program your database that would be one thing; but this support is free of charge. Almost anyone here will be glad to clarify points that you're having trouble with, or expand upon an initial quick answer. If your first answer doesn't communicate what you need, please reply to it, requesting more help; if you make it clear that you're trying to learn to solve the problem yourself, and are just having trouble, we'll be glad to help. Just don't ask us to do all your work for you free of charge. John W. Vinson[MVP] |
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No problem. Just for future reference, if you encounter frustration with an
answer please feel free to post back asking for a clarification. Most of the volunteers here will be glad to keep working with you until you get your problem worked out. -- Lynn Trapp MS Access MVP www.ltcomputerdesigns.com Access Security: www.ltcomputerdesigns.com/Security.htm Jeff Conrad's Access Junkie List: http://home.bendbroadband.com/conrad...essjunkie.html "j1eggert" wrote in message ... Your are correct, and I was probably venting my frustrations. Thank you for your response. "Lynn Trapp" wrote: I'm sorry you have had a bad experience here. Still you have to remember that everyone who comes here does so as a volunteer and, in many cases, our time is quite limited. We often have to provide answers on the fly. Also, we can only work with the information we are given. We can't see your database or your data. That can make providing the complete step-by-step instructions you want quite difficult. -- Lynn Trapp MS Access MVP www.ltcomputerdesigns.com Access Security: www.ltcomputerdesigns.com/Security.htm Jeff Conrad's Access Junkie List: http://home.bendbroadband.com/conrad...essjunkie.html "j1eggert" wrote in message ... I do not mean to be negative or overly critical. However, I have been disappointed with the responses received from posting requests for assistance with problems. Very few times have I actrually received a response that actually worked. Almost none of the code examples I received worked. The information was too vague, assuming I have been programming for a long time. It would help if examples given for code were more complete with instructions on where to actually place the code and where to link it too. I am a visual person and do better with step-by-step instructions and complete code examples. Thank you for your time! j1eggert |
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Thanks for your understanding!
"Lynn Trapp" wrote: No problem. Just for future reference, if you encounter frustration with an answer please feel free to post back asking for a clarification. Most of the volunteers here will be glad to keep working with you until you get your problem worked out. -- Lynn Trapp MS Access MVP www.ltcomputerdesigns.com Access Security: www.ltcomputerdesigns.com/Security.htm Jeff Conrad's Access Junkie List: http://home.bendbroadband.com/conrad...essjunkie.html "j1eggert" wrote in message ... Your are correct, and I was probably venting my frustrations. Thank you for your response. "Lynn Trapp" wrote: I'm sorry you have had a bad experience here. Still you have to remember that everyone who comes here does so as a volunteer and, in many cases, our time is quite limited. We often have to provide answers on the fly. Also, we can only work with the information we are given. We can't see your database or your data. That can make providing the complete step-by-step instructions you want quite difficult. -- Lynn Trapp MS Access MVP www.ltcomputerdesigns.com Access Security: www.ltcomputerdesigns.com/Security.htm Jeff Conrad's Access Junkie List: http://home.bendbroadband.com/conrad...essjunkie.html "j1eggert" wrote in message ... I do not mean to be negative or overly critical. However, I have been disappointed with the responses received from posting requests for assistance with problems. Very few times have I actrually received a response that actually worked. Almost none of the code examples I received worked. The information was too vague, assuming I have been programming for a long time. It would help if examples given for code were more complete with instructions on where to actually place the code and where to link it too. I am a visual person and do better with step-by-step instructions and complete code examples. Thank you for your time! j1eggert |
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Hi, James.
I do apologize for my comment, I didn't mean that I was looking for complete solutions that I could just copy and paste, but a more complete explanation with a little more direction. At the risk of beating a dead horse, you are asking for help but you are expecting tech support. The newsgroups you haved posted to are designed as a peer-to-peer forum for people who have questions to get suggestions and advice from volunteers who have knowledge of the product. There is no guarantee that you will get answers -- or even correct answers -- to your questions. Fortunately, plenty of experts answer questions in the Access newsgroups, so you are extremely likely to get a correct answer to your question. However, it may not be the in-depth answer you are looking for, because after all, participation here is voluntary, unlike a paid service. If this is not sufficient for your needs, many of the people who answer questions here are consultants and provide excellent tech support for their customers, so you may want to hire one of them to fill your specific needs. And, you have not read all the responses to my questions to understand what I am referring to. .. . . Which were the following statements: I have been disappointed with the responses received from posting requests for assistance with problems. Very few times have I actrually received a response that actually worked. Almost none of the code examples I received worked. Very few times? You marked an awful lot of them as answers to your questions. I've read the responses and, with very few exceptions, you recieved excellent answers to the good many questions you've already posted: http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...c-cb36dcb250f2 http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...e-067082360131 http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...c-50e0c681ed8f http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...6-b1a1e01ecb4e http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...2-7eae5035fe09 http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...4-f8d1ca7e02d0 http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...0-2d9c48c853ab http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...4-c238ce3515bf http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...8-b511cad1c3e6 http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...c-c0ff8a531983 http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...7-3323782d9c7c http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...f-024a77853566 http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...6-b209aaa30818 http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...0-d05a55a50e00 http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...5-fbbca4b29800 http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...e-6a467b8181d0 http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...7-c07e2977786b http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...b-5ef9b36de138 http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...4-3040a65b245d http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...a-492dbba4f0da http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...a-9a4c0319c54d The code examples you received were not intended to be copy/paste/run the code for instant success. The code examples you received worked, but they were just that: examples. They needed to be altered to fit your particular database, because the expert offering the code doesn't have your database in front of him to tell you the exact code that you need. The responses you received were also correct, but you did not always understand what the expert was telling you, and when you didn't apply his advice correctly you assumed that his suggestions didn't work. It would help if examples given for code were more complete with instructions on where to actually place the code and where to link it too. I am a visual person and do better with step-by-step instructions and complete code examples. Such spoon-fed instructions come from formal courses and tutors, not from free newsgroup posts. I suggest that you take a few Access classes, or find someone on the Air Force Base to take the time to teach you what you need to learn, or hire a tutor. Access has a steep learning curve and the tasks that you are attempting to accomplish are beyond your current capabilities. Having someone sit down and show you how to do it and show you the techniques and tricks for getting the most out of Access will save you months or years of frustration. And you can in turn pass this knowledge on to someone else later to save them the frustration you are now experiencing. (Which is why so many people volunteer to help: they know what it's like not being able to get an Access application to work. Access can be tough.) Most of the responses to my questions have been made under the assumption that I am an experienced programmer. You have posted your questions in newsgroups for advanced beginners up through expert users to developers. Therefore, the answers you receive are given with the expectation that you know more than how to enter data and print reports in an application built by someone else. The "Getting Started" newsgroup is intended for beginners. The answers posted to questions in that newsgroup give more detail because they're geared for people who don't yet know their way around Access, nor how to program. I suggest posting your questions in that newsgroup until you've taken some courses, or have been tutored, or have read books and experimented enough with Access to reach the next level. You may subscribe to the microsoft.public.gettingstarted newsgroup in your news reader or point your Web browser to the following Web page for new users: http://www.microsoft.com/communities...8-58c07ed6b1d7 In other fields like techical writing, the standard is to write at the eighth grade level and not assume that everyone can read at the college level. The same standard could apply to this discussion group. No. It can't. The typical eighth grader may be computer literate, but he's not yet capable of applying all of the skills necessary for a non-trivial database application: data modeling, relational database design, ensuring data integrity and data concurrency, ensuring data security, efficient application of set theory, algebraic notation, efficient procedural programming, event-oriented programming with objects, ensuring that the application meets requirements and is maintainable, computer networking, GUI design, deploying an application within an organization, et cetera. Think high school graduate as the minimum level, not eighth grade level, when it comes to becoming a competent Access database developer. The Access experts have the necessary skills and knowledge, but they can't beam them to you in the short code snippets of a newgroup post. You'll have to go way beyond your current comfort zone in order to fully take advantage of the mountains of free advice you can get in the newsgroups. The experts are willing to help you, but you need to come part way if you hope to succeed. Good luck. Gunny "j1eggert" wrote in message ... I do apologize for my comment, I didn't mean that I was looking for complete solutions that I could just copy and paste, but a more complete explanation with a little more direction. And, you have not read all the responses to my questions to understand what I am referring to. Most of the responses to my questions have been made under the assumption that I am an experienced programmer. In other fields like techical writing, the standard is to write at the eighth grade level and not assume that everyone can read at the college level. The same standard could apply to this discussion group. Again, I do apologize if I offended you. On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:18:10 -0700, "j1eggert" wrote: I do not mean to be negative or overly critical. However, I have been disappointed with the responses received from posting requests for assistance with problems. Very few times have I actrually received a response that actually worked. Almost none of the code examples I received worked. The information was too vague, assuming I have been programming for a long time. It would help if examples given for code were more complete with instructions on where to actually place the code and where to link it too. I am a visual person and do better with step-by-step instructions and complete code examples. Thank you for your time! j1eggert |
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