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Creating Action Items with several one-to-manies - need design advice
How should I design the tables/queries?
I have an action item list that I want to put into access but it isn't always one line per action item, not sure how to set it up, below is an example: Action Item 1: Building Improvements Action Item 2: Paint the building Action Item 3: Choose color Duration: month Cost: none Leader: John Hire contractor Duration: month Cost: none Leader: John And the next record could be like: Action Item 1: Implement Sales Strategy Action Item 2: Decide strategy Duration: month Cost: 1000 Leader: John etc, Action Item 3 empty ______________ Duration, cost, leader can be under lvls 1, 2 or 3 Please advise, Thanks! |
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Creating Action Items with several one-to-manies - need design adv
Always design tables first. Don't worry about queries until you have set up
your tables, and normalized them. It sounds as if you need a table to list projects, and another table that will list the actions to accomplish those projects. The project table will have a primary key, probably an autonumber, that will uniquely identify the project. The Action table will have a primary key (autonumber), that will uniquely identify the actions. The Action table will also include a field that will link back to the project table (use relationships), and identify which action goes with which project. You will set up various fields in each table. The Project table will probably include leader and text fields, the Action table will probably include duration and cost fields. You may want to include a Finish Date in the Action table. Once you have set up these tables, then you can design queries and forms that will allow you to input data, and reports so that you can print out what is happening. "christine@milton" wrote: How should I design the tables/queries? I have an action item list that I want to put into access but it isn't always one line per action item, not sure how to set it up, below is an example: Action Item 1: Building Improvements Action Item 2: Paint the building Action Item 3: Choose color Duration: month Cost: none Leader: John Hire contractor Duration: month Cost: none Leader: John And the next record could be like: Action Item 1: Implement Sales Strategy Action Item 2: Decide strategy Duration: month Cost: 1000 Leader: John etc, Action Item 3 empty ______________ Duration, cost, leader can be under lvls 1, 2 or 3 Please advise, Thanks! |
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