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From: Micke__1 on 7 Mar 2010 08:28
Work with IT for many years, and have lately begun looking into DB and MS
Access. So Im quite a rookie in this area. :)

Ok,
Got a superclass named table1. That class has only one attribute, an ID
which is an auto number.

Then I have to subclasses called table2 and table3. They have the foreign
key to ID, and a couple of other attributes.

When I add a instance to my table2, I want it to add a new auto number in my
superclass, table1. eg a new instance in table1.Is this possible at all?

It seems that I need to first add to table1, and after that use that id in
table2 or table3, and that is not possible here.

any advice here?

br
Micke
From: Jeff Boyce on 7 Mar 2010 10:28
Since the value in table2 involves a foreign key pointing back to a record
in table1, oh wait, you don't have a record in table1 yet!

Yes, by all means, start the record in table1, then finish table2 details.

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"Micke__1" <Micke1(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EBFF7A05-7DD1-4633-A61C-FBA2CC3CC5D7(a)microsoft.com...
> Work with IT for many years, and have lately begun looking into DB and MS
> Access. So Im quite a rookie in this area. :)
>
> Ok,
> Got a superclass named table1. That class has only one attribute, an ID
> which is an auto number.
>
> Then I have to subclasses called table2 and table3. They have the foreign
> key to ID, and a couple of other attributes.
>
> When I add a instance to my table2, I want it to add a new auto number in
> my
> superclass, table1. eg a new instance in table1.Is this possible at all?
>
> It seems that I need to first add to table1, and after that use that id in
> table2 or table3, and that is not possible here.
>
> any advice here?
>
> br
> Micke


From: Piet Linden on 9 Mar 2010 18:18
FWIW, you might want to read Rebecca Riordan's article on how to do
super/subclassing in Access...

http://www.mvps.org/access/tables/tbl0013.htm

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