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work order form and report design help
I am building an automotive shop database. I have a table that lists all of
the services and the prices. I have the main form created where all of the customer data is entered in and I have another form that builds the work order for the customer. How do I build the form to allow for different services for the same customer without having to create service type 1, service type 2, etc. I need them to be independent of each other and I then need to create a report to print out for the customer. |
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work order form and report design help
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:24:01 -0700, Jimmy
wrote: I am building an automotive shop database. I have a table that lists all of the services and the prices. I have the main form created where all of the customer data is entered in and I have another form that builds the work order for the customer. How do I build the form to allow for different services for the same customer without having to create service type 1, service type 2, etc. I need them to be independent of each other and I then need to create a report to print out for the customer. STOP. You're jumping to the form *too early*. You need to get your table design right first, before you start working on Forms; and to do so you need to understand the relational paradigm. This case is very much like the Northwind sample database that comes with Access. One Customer can have many Jobs (surely you want return business) - so you need a table of Customers related one-to-many to a table of Jobs (with a CustomerID, a date, and so on). Each Job can involve many Services (oil change, rotate tires, replace leaky vacuum hose...); each Service may occur in many different Jobs (you'll change the oil for lots of customers). So you need a third table, JobDetails, with a link to the Jobs table and to the Services table. Take a look at some of these resources, particularly the tutorials toward the end: Jeff Conrad's resources page: http://www.accessmvp.com/JConrad/acc...resources.html The Access Web resources page: http://www.mvps.org/access/resources/index.html Roger Carlson's tutorials, samples and tips: http://www.rogersaccesslibrary.com/ A free tutorial written by Crystal: http://allenbrowne.com/casu-22.html A video how-to series by Crystal: http://www.YouTube.com/user/LearnAccessByCrystal MVP Allen Browne's tutorials: http://allenbrowne.com/links.html#Tutorials -- John W. Vinson [MVP] |
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