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Windkyle

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Topic # 31377 15-Mar-2009 23:16

I have a database with:
Tables
Contacts {Name, Address, Phone Number, ID} etc
Jobs {Job Number, Name, Adress Phone Number, Job Description} etc

How do I create a JOB form where when I enter the name which is linked to the contacts and the address from that name comes up Automatically.

bitumen

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Reply # 201371 16-Mar-2009 09:20

Tables
Contacts {Name, Address, Phone Number, ID} etc
Jobs {Job Number, Name, Address Phone Number, Job Description}

You need to add a relationship between the tables.
[Contacts] 1 or many [Jobs]
[Jobs] must have 1 [Contact]
(not going to deal with many to many possibility)

Hence:
Contacts {Name, Address, Phone Number, ID} etc
Jobs {Contact_ID, Job Number, Name, Address Phone Number, Job Description}

Contact_ID in the Jobs table is the foreign Key to the Contact table ID field

Sample query (not tested or checked)

Select [Contacts].[Address]
From [Contacts],[Jobs]
Where [Contacts].[ID]=[Jobs].[Contact_ID] And [Jobs].[Name] = input

Hope this helps

edit reason: formating

Ragnor

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Reply # 201419 16-Mar-2009 14:26

I would imagine you will invariably have a situation where a contact has many jobs and a job can have more that one contact.

For many to many relationships you just need a joining table like JobContact, eg:

Contact [ContactID, Name, Address, PhoneNumber, WhenCreated, WhenModified, CreatedBy, ModifiedBy]

Job [JobID, Name, Adress Phone Number, Job Description, WhenCreated, WhenModified, CreatedBy, ModifiedBy]

JobContact [JobID, ContactID, WhenCreated, WhenModified, CreatedBy, ModifiedBy]

A couple of coding conventions that I normally stick to are: don't make table names pural, add some basic logging fields so you can at least tell who last modified it and who created it (Created/Modified).

bitumen

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Reply # 201422 16-Mar-2009 15:07

Windkyle You seem to be learning many different technologies and languages and concepts,

I recomment you look at FunctionX website as they have alot (450mb) of tutorials that i think will assist you.

Good luck in the learning!

stevonz

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Reply # 201426 16-Mar-2009 15:17

Also bytes.com (formerly know as thescripts.com) is another forum with a wealth of information & quick/ friendly advice relating to MS Access/ Excel queries...

Cheers, Stevo

Windkyle

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Reply # 201514 16-Mar-2009 22:14

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