I have a noob question but he, i’m learning 🙂
I’m making a form with the following tables 1 tblCustomers and 1 tblWorkorders.
My question is:
When I add a customer to a new record, this person is stored in the table: tblCustomers this is going fine.
The problem is that I also have a table: tblWorkorders, in this table I store all the technical information, sollutions and the customers belongings. (adapter, notebook bag etc etc)
My problem excists when for example a customer named John Doe comes back with another problem 2 weeks later. In the table tblWorkorders should be 2 records with the problems of John Doe I think it has something to do with relationships between the tables, can someone tell me where to find a good example or when it’s a short story, how to do this?
Very difficult to explain this concept and start you off from scratch. Be prepared for further research on different item. Here is a place to start: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/access-help/guide-to-table-relationships-HA010120534.aspx
The following is how you would use your tables:
You need to have a common field in both tables (it can be more than one field, but let’s keep it simple). The easy way is to have a CustomerID field that is a Data Type field set to: AutoNumber (It does just what it says.).
tblWorkOrders will have the same field (doesn’t have to be the same name, but let’s keep it simple) BUT, the Data Type is: Number Field Size: Long Interger.
If you’re able to use: Database Tools | Relationships, and join the two tables by this field, developing forms and reports is a lot easier.
Your form will be based on the tblCustomers table (I know, let’s keep it simple.) and a Sub Form will use the tblWorkorders table and the ‘Link Master Fields’ and the ‘Link Child Fields’ will use the CustomerID from each table.