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From: Wizbard on 12 May 2010 14:06
I'm back... embarrassed to admit that I got my Committees module working for
about a day and then accidentally deleted my subform and haven't been able to
recreate it properly again. See my earlier post.

JWV, I took your advice and went with 3 tables: Households, Committees and
CommMembers. I joined them through linking the ID fields of Households and
Committees into Households_ID and Committees_ID number fields that I set up
in the CommMember table.

I created the main form, frm-Committees, using the ID, Committee, Action
Items and Objectives fields from the Committees table.

I created the subform, subfrm-Committees, using the Role field from
CommMembers and the ID, Household Head, Phone (and other) fields from the
Households table.

Here's where I get lost: I want to use a combo box in place of the
Households Head field in the subform to select from a dropdown list of
Household Heads, which, when a name is selected, pulls the rest of the
contact info from Households table (which has already been populated) into
the subform record and eventually adds the Role, Objectives and Action Items
data to their respective tables.

Currently, when I select a name from the Households list, it creates a new
record in Households and populates the Household Head field in the new record
with the Household Head ID number, rather than the name. I don't want to be
changing Households at all, just get the name from that table.

I suspect my problem is in which fields I am joining and, perhaps the types
of joins between the tables, but I've gone round and round without getting
it right for two or three days. I'm just using wizards because I don't yet
grasp the code itself.

Can you help by suggesting which field from the main form I should be
joining to which field on the subform and what types of joins they should be?

Many thanks for your patience on what should be obvious to me.

-wiz

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Green and Growing
From: Wizbard on 13 May 2010 14:17
Gee, was it something I said? I feel ignored.
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Green and Growing


"Wizbard" wrote:

> I'm back... embarrassed to admit that I got my Committees module working for
> about a day and then accidentally deleted my subform and haven't been able to
> recreate it properly again. See my earlier post.
>
> JWV, I took your advice and went with 3 tables: Households, Committees and
> CommMembers. I joined them through linking the ID fields of Households and
> Committees into Households_ID and Committees_ID number fields that I set up
> in the CommMember table.
>
> I created the main form, frm-Committees, using the ID, Committee, Action
> Items and Objectives fields from the Committees table.
>
> I created the subform, subfrm-Committees, using the Role field from
> CommMembers and the ID, Household Head, Phone (and other) fields from the
> Households table.
>
> Here's where I get lost: I want to use a combo box in place of the
> Households Head field in the subform to select from a dropdown list of
> Household Heads, which, when a name is selected, pulls the rest of the
> contact info from Households table (which has already been populated) into
> the subform record and eventually adds the Role, Objectives and Action Items
> data to their respective tables.
>
> Currently, when I select a name from the Households list, it creates a new
> record in Households and populates the Household Head field in the new record
> with the Household Head ID number, rather than the name. I don't want to be
> changing Households at all, just get the name from that table.
>
> I suspect my problem is in which fields I am joining and, perhaps the types
> of joins between the tables, but I've gone round and round without getting
> it right for two or three days. I'm just using wizards because I don't yet
> grasp the code itself.
>
> Can you help by suggesting which field from the main form I should be
> joining to which field on the subform and what types of joins they should be?
>
> Many thanks for your patience on what should be obvious to me.
>
> -wiz
>
> --
> Green and Growing
From: Larry Linson on 20 May 2010 15:28
More probably, it was what you didn't do... post a continuation to the
previous thread or quote enough in context that we could establish what you
are talking about without doing extensive research, which few who post here
have time and energy to do... we like to be helpful, but you need to help us
to help you.

--
Larry Linson, Microsoft Office Access MVP
Co-author: "Microsoft Access Small Business Solutions", published by Wiley
Access newsgroup support is alive and well in USENET
comp.databases.ms-access


"Wizbard" <Wizbard(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4D8CBCBB-101E-47C4-A96E-D7B095BC502F(a)microsoft.com...
> Gee, was it something I said? I feel ignored.
> --
> Green and Growing
>
>
> "Wizbard" wrote:
>
>> I'm back... embarrassed to admit that I got my Committees module working
>> for
>> about a day and then accidentally deleted my subform and haven't been
>> able to
>> recreate it properly again. See my earlier post.
>>
>> JWV, I took your advice and went with 3 tables: Households, Committees
>> and
>> CommMembers. I joined them through linking the ID fields of Households
>> and
>> Committees into Households_ID and Committees_ID number fields that I set
>> up
>> in the CommMember table.
>>
>> I created the main form, frm-Committees, using the ID, Committee, Action
>> Items and Objectives fields from the Committees table.
>>
>> I created the subform, subfrm-Committees, using the Role field from
>> CommMembers and the ID, Household Head, Phone (and other) fields from the
>> Households table.
>>
>> Here's where I get lost: I want to use a combo box in place of the
>> Households Head field in the subform to select from a dropdown list of
>> Household Heads, which, when a name is selected, pulls the rest of the
>> contact info from Households table (which has already been populated)
>> into
>> the subform record and eventually adds the Role, Objectives and Action
>> Items
>> data to their respective tables.
>>
>> Currently, when I select a name from the Households list, it creates a
>> new
>> record in Households and populates the Household Head field in the new
>> record
>> with the Household Head ID number, rather than the name. I don't want to
>> be
>> changing Households at all, just get the name from that table.
>>
>> I suspect my problem is in which fields I am joining and, perhaps the
>> types
>> of joins between the tables, but I've gone round and round without
>> getting
>> it right for two or three days. I'm just using wizards because I don't
>> yet
>> grasp the code itself.
>>
>> Can you help by suggesting which field from the main form I should be
>> joining to which field on the subform and what types of joins they should
>> be?
>>
>> Many thanks for your patience on what should be obvious to me.
>>
>> -wiz
>>
>> --
>> Green and Growing


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