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Old April 18th, 2010, 07:12 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.gettingstarted
shumate62
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Let me explain... I need a database with contact names and then which type of
group they are part of.

1. I created a table with ContactID (fields with name, address)

2. I created a table with GroupID (fields with speaker, author, media)

3. I selected lookup wizard as the data type in ContactID and then select
that it choose from GroupID options (speakers, author, media)

4. that automatically created a one to many relationship from group ID to
contact ID.

5. I created a form through wizard.

6. but when I go to enter data, nothing comes up in the dropdown box. where
did I go wrong?

And to clarify, is this the correct design to allow me to sort for tasks
such as:
print labels for speakers and authors?
or creating lists of only attendees and the media

by doing it this way I will be able to filter for that, no?
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Old April 18th, 2010, 09:20 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.gettingstarted
John W. Vinson
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On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:12:01 -0700, shumate62
wrote:

Let me explain... I need a database with contact names and then which type of
group they are part of.

1. I created a table with ContactID (fields with name, address)


Good...

2. I created a table with GroupID (fields with speaker, author, media)


Good...

3. I selected lookup wizard as the data type in ContactID and then select
that it choose from GroupID options (speakers, author, media)


WRONG!!!!

See http://www.mvps.org.access/lookupfields.htm for a critique of this
misfeature.

4. that automatically created a one to many relationship from group ID to
contact ID.


Exactly. The lookup wizard isn't very bright. There *IS NO* relationship
(directly) from Groups to Contacts. *There can't be*. A field can (should,
multivalue fields being a really bad decision on Microsoft's part) have *only
one value*.

And to clarify, is this the correct design to allow me to sort for tasks
such as:
print labels for speakers and authors?
or creating lists of only attendees and the media

by doing it this way I will be able to filter for that, no?


Yes. Two one-to-many relationships; tblPerson to tblPersonGroup, tblGroup to
tblPersonGroup.

If Jane Smith is a Speaker, there'd be a record for Jane in tblPerson; a
record for Speakers in tblGroups; and a record with Jane's ID and the Speakers
GroupID in tblPersonGroups.

The user presentation of this could be a Form based on tblPerson; a Subform
based on tblPersonGroup; on the subform you could have a combo box bound to
tblPersonGroup.GroupID, storing the GroupID and displaying the group name.

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John W. Vinson [MVP]
 




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