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Glad it's working for you.
I wish I had understood better from the beginning what you were trying to accomplish. I should have paid closer attention to your first posting. -- John Spencer Access MVP 2002-2005, 2007 Center for Health Program Development and Management University of Maryland Baltimore County .. "Maax" wrote in message ... yes, thats exactly what i want. i have dropped the join on the part number and it works perfectly now. Many thanks for your patience and help. It is very much appreciated. its now 4.30am in the UK so i can perhaps get a couple of hours sleep before work. Thanks again. "John Spencer" wrote: Try dropping the join on the part number also. I must admit, I am a bit baffled on exactly what you want returned. After reviewing this thread, it seems that you want all parts bought by a customers (or customers) that have bought a particular part as long as the parts are within 10 percent of the cost and the cable and the bom and the time. So if I bought part no 52, what other parts did I buy that were within 10 percent of the cost and the bom and the time and the cable. Whatever those are. If that is correct then you probably only want to join on the customer and use criteria on the other items. You don't want to do anything at all with criteria or joins on partnumber. '================================================= === John Spencer Access MVP 2002-2005, 2007 Center for Health Program Development and Management University of Maryland Baltimore County '================================================= === Maax wrote: John, i removed link but still the same. i have tried taking out all of the between criteria and replacing the price criteria with a between 5 and 200. This should return many records but still only returns the record that has the same part number i enter for the search. I will continue to play around with it but its a little beyond me i am afraid. many thanks for your help "John Spencer" wrote: No, you do not want to link by the primary key field. That is probably what is restricting your results to one record. REmove that link by right-clicking on it and selecting delete. -- John Spencer Access MVP 2002-2005, 2007 Center for Health Program Development and Management University of Maryland Baltimore County .. "Maax" wrote in message ... Hi John, i am following your instructions (i think) but when i run the query the only record returned is the one that i entered as the part number. It is not returning other parts that are within the criteria. I will have a play with it and hopefully something will click into place. One question i do have, should only the partnumber and customer be linked? These are linked but also the unique ID(key) from the table is linked. regards Max "John Spencer" wrote: It sounds as if you are using the query design view (the query grid) to build your queries. Open a new query -Select your table -Click close -Add the fields to the query grid -under part number enter = [What Part] Save this query as qPartMatch. Open a new query -- Select your table -- Click on the query tab -- Select the saved query -- Click close -- if there is no join line between partNumber and PartNumber Drag from the table to the query -- if there is no join line between Customer and customer drag again -- Add the fields you want from the table -- in the criteria under the relevant fields you will have to type BETWEEN [qPartMatch].[BOM] *.9 And [qPartMatch].[BOM]*1.1 Alternative is to copy the proposed SQL statements into the SQL view of the query and edit the table (and field) names. Save the first as noted. Now copy the second one as posted and change the table name again. -- John Spencer Access MVP 2002-2005, 2007 Center for Health Program Development and Management University of Maryland Baltimore County .. "Maax" wrote in message ... Hi John, many thanks for reply. I have a minor problem, i am very novice and although i can create basic queries i am unsure where to enter the following, SNIP |
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actually when it does not work first time it enables me to learn a little
more. I can go through it locigally and see why it did not work. Its all useful stuff for future problems which i will encounter i am sure. thanks again "John Spencer" wrote: Glad it's working for you. I wish I had understood better from the beginning what you were trying to accomplish. I should have paid closer attention to your first posting. -- John Spencer Access MVP 2002-2005, 2007 Center for Health Program Development and Management University of Maryland Baltimore County .. "Maax" wrote in message ... yes, thats exactly what i want. i have dropped the join on the part number and it works perfectly now. Many thanks for your patience and help. It is very much appreciated. its now 4.30am in the UK so i can perhaps get a couple of hours sleep before work. Thanks again. "John Spencer" wrote: Try dropping the join on the part number also. I must admit, I am a bit baffled on exactly what you want returned. After reviewing this thread, it seems that you want all parts bought by a customers (or customers) that have bought a particular part as long as the parts are within 10 percent of the cost and the cable and the bom and the time. So if I bought part no 52, what other parts did I buy that were within 10 percent of the cost and the bom and the time and the cable. Whatever those are. If that is correct then you probably only want to join on the customer and use criteria on the other items. You don't want to do anything at all with criteria or joins on partnumber. '================================================= === John Spencer Access MVP 2002-2005, 2007 Center for Health Program Development and Management University of Maryland Baltimore County '================================================= === Maax wrote: John, i removed link but still the same. i have tried taking out all of the between criteria and replacing the price criteria with a between 5 and 200. This should return many records but still only returns the record that has the same part number i enter for the search. I will continue to play around with it but its a little beyond me i am afraid. many thanks for your help "John Spencer" wrote: No, you do not want to link by the primary key field. That is probably what is restricting your results to one record. REmove that link by right-clicking on it and selecting delete. -- John Spencer Access MVP 2002-2005, 2007 Center for Health Program Development and Management University of Maryland Baltimore County .. "Maax" wrote in message ... Hi John, i am following your instructions (i think) but when i run the query the only record returned is the one that i entered as the part number. It is not returning other parts that are within the criteria. I will have a play with it and hopefully something will click into place. One question i do have, should only the partnumber and customer be linked? These are linked but also the unique ID(key) from the table is linked. regards Max "John Spencer" wrote: It sounds as if you are using the query design view (the query grid) to build your queries. Open a new query -Select your table -Click close -Add the fields to the query grid -under part number enter = [What Part] Save this query as qPartMatch. Open a new query -- Select your table -- Click on the query tab -- Select the saved query -- Click close -- if there is no join line between partNumber and PartNumber Drag from the table to the query -- if there is no join line between Customer and customer drag again -- Add the fields you want from the table -- in the criteria under the relevant fields you will have to type BETWEEN [qPartMatch].[BOM] *.9 And [qPartMatch].[BOM]*1.1 Alternative is to copy the proposed SQL statements into the SQL view of the query and edit the table (and field) names. Save the first as noted. Now copy the second one as posted and change the table name again. -- John Spencer Access MVP 2002-2005, 2007 Center for Health Program Development and Management University of Maryland Baltimore County .. "Maax" wrote in message ... Hi John, many thanks for reply. I have a minor problem, i am very novice and although i can create basic queries i am unsure where to enter the following, SNIP |
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