From: Munchkin on 29 Mar 2010 14:20 Is this possible, and if so how do you do it? Our form contains all fields on our table. One field is "total", which should total "M&E" and "E". We want to be able to enter on our form a dollar amount in "M&E" and "E", and have our form automatically calculate the total for us.
From: Jeff Boyce on 29 Mar 2010 15:09 Are you saying that your underlying table has a field named "total"? If so, just guessing, you try to store a calculated total amount in that field, right? Unlike a spreadsheet, where this is common, Access is a relational database. You most often do NOT want to store a calculated value, mainly because you will then have to figure out how to ALWAYS keep it in sync with the values from which it is calculated. (oh yeah, other reasons like takes up extra storage unnecessarily and takes longer to retrieve from disk that to calculate in memory ...) Regards Jeff Boyce Microsoft Access MVP -- Disclaimer: This author may have received products and services mentioned in this post. Mention and/or description of a product or service herein does not constitute endorsement thereof. Any code or pseudocode included in this post is offered "as is", with no guarantee as to suitability. You can thank the FTC of the USA for making this disclaimer possible/necessary. "Munchkin" <Munchkin(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:C7E044C6-221C-499D-98E7-3F14EE2C323D(a)microsoft.com... > Is this possible, and if so how do you do it? > > Our form contains all fields on our table. One field is "total", which > should total "M&E" and "E". > > We want to be able to enter on our form a dollar amount in "M&E" and "E", > and have our form automatically calculate the total for us. > >
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