I have been trying to figure this situation out for a few days and was hoping someone here could help me out.
I want to create a form that inserts multiple records at a time.
However all the records have some data that will be repeated.
For example Employee ID, Supervisor ID, and Researcher ID will be repeated along with the dates of each persons involvement.
The data that will differ would be the inventory items. (location, item number, condition, count, etc etc.
So for every new entry within the inventory information, i would like to include the repeated information when being copied over to the table.
The way i envision this is having some sort of sub form for the multiple data entries. Then, maybe having unbound text boxes on the header of the main page that keeps the values the same and lastly having a footer showing the previous records entered. I have limited VB coding skills. However i can pick things up quickly and debug if needed.
If you need more clarification please dont hesitate to ask.
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I have a database, which contains information that I can't share images of due to compliance reasons.
I have a table I need to copy data from, so I was using the following SQL:
INSERT INTO completedtrainingstestfinal (MALicenseNum)
SELECT MALicenseNum
FROM CompletedTrainings
WHERE (CompletedTrainings.MALicenseNum IS NOT NULL)
AND (CompletedTrainings.Employee = completedtrainingstestfinal.Employee);
It keeps popping up the Enter Parameter Value, centered on the new table (named completedtrainingstestfinal) at the Employee column.
Background: The original table is a mess, and this is to be the replacement table, I've had to pivot the table in order to clean it up, and am now trying to remove an ungodly amount of nulls. The goal is to clean up the query process for the end users of this who need to put in training and certification/recertification through the forms.
When you look in the old table, it has been designed to reference another table and display the actual names, but as seen in the image below it is storing the data as the integer number Employee.
The new table Employee column was a direct copy but only displays the integer, my instincts tell me that the problem is here, but I have been unable to find a solution. Anyone have any suggestions to throw me in the right direction?
Edited to add: It might be an issue where the tables have different numbers of rows?
This is the design view of the two relevant tables :
Table 1
Table 2
I need some help and I know I am not the only one to deal with this issue but I am wondering if you might have some ideas on how to handle the situation of comparing two rows of data filling out start and end dates.
To give you some context, we have a huge hierarchy (approx 8,000 rows and about 12 columns wide) that is updated each year. Sometimes the values change and sometimes they don’t. When the values don’t change, then I don’t need to adjust the dates. When the values do change and a new row is added, I need to change the data.
I have attached some fake data to try and illustrate my data. I am building this in MS Access, so I think this is more of a DBA type question that is going to be manipulated via a recordset type method.
In my example I have two tables – Old Table and New Table. In each table there is a routing code field that represents my join field and primary key for this table.
The Old table represents existing data - tblMain. The New Table represents the data to be appended - tblTemp.
To append the data, I have an append query set up in Access. I perform a left join between the Old and New tables, joining on every field and append the rows that are null in the Old table. That’s fine and that is not where my issue is.
What is causing me issue is how to fill out the start and end dates.
So as you can see from my tables, we are running a zoo. Let’s just say for the sake of the argument, our zoo started off pretty simple and has become more sophisticated. We now want our hierarchy to expand out and become a bit more detailed as we are now capturing the type of animal (Level 4) and the native location (Level 5).
As you can see when comparing one table to another the routing codes are the same, so the append query has to have a join on each field. When you do this, you return the Result Table which is essentially the Old and New tables stacked on top of each other. You might think about a Union query but this is going to give me duplicates and I don’t want that.
If you notice in the Result Table there is a Start and End Date. Let’s just say I get the start and end dates via message box that pops up upon the import of the data and is held in a variable. I think there are dates in my real data but still trying to verify this.
So how do I compare (pseudo code for the logic needed)?
• For each routing code:
Compare Levels 1-5
If the routing code is the same but Levels 1 -5 are not the same
fill out the end date of the old record
fill out the start date of the new record
This idea of comparing two records and filling out a data is quite prevalent in my organization but I haven’t found a way of creating the logic that consistently works so any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
Old Table
New Table
Result Table
So I was trying to make a grading system in vb.net. In my datagridview, I am to create a student's record. I am using MS access database. Since many records will be created for the students, many rows will be created on my datagridview. Now, if I am to put a specific exam item on the first row in a specific cell, how can I get that specific value to the same cell but on the next succeeding rows so that I don't need to manually type in the same exam items for all the records? I'm new to vb.net and I have no idea how to do it. Please help me.
I do a lot of reporting out of our Electronic Health Record using a Business Objects product, and one thing I run into frequently is records for which most of the columns are the same, but a few may have multiple different values.
For instance, a report I'm working on has 8 columns, mostly static information about the patient/encounter, some lab values, and a column for the consulting physician. All the columns will have only a single value per patient/encounter, except for consulting physician which may have multiple. I'd like to somehow set the table to show only a single row for the data that is unchanged, so they don't end up seeing the FIN, MRN, and lab values over and over.
However, as far as I've been able to tell with my fiddling around, I can only apply a section or break to a single column. Creating multiple sections or breaks nests them. Does anybody know of a way to treat multiple columns as sort of a composite section?
edit: I did try pulling the consulting physician column out into its own table and then setting the room number as a section, but it still caused repeated rows of the other data for any that had multiple consultings.
Additional edit: As requested here's a mockup of approximately what I'd like to see. This is mostly how it looks already when I tell BO to use the room number (the number in blue, top left of each row) as a section, however in the case of the third room, it would repeat the information in the first 5 columns for each consulting listed.
Couple of ways to do it, but putting breaks on each column is what I would do.
So, starting from "FIN" and working to "Attending", add a break on each column. It will add a summary row for each, so it will look like:
Then select the summary rows, right-click, and Delete:
I have a list named Employee Dates, this list contains the columns:
Employee | CPR Completed | CPR Required | ETC
These columns keep going on for all of the training courses required for our employees with alternating columns for completed and required dates. I am using a workflow to calculate all of the required dates of training from the completed dates.
What I desire to do is make another list that will look at ALL of the columns for the required dates and find the soonest ones and populate that list with the soonest dates and from which column it was pulled from.
Any help as to how to approach this? I have been trying to use queries in Access and also some of the custom view settings in SharePoint Designer but no luck so far.
You could try an Excel table (they also have these functions in access if I recall, but I avoid access like a plague). To connect Excel to share point follow the steps in this article:
support.office.com
Ok, now that we are connected you should see all of the columns and values in excel. Next up we need to find the min date (easy) and then get the associated column name (a little harder).
Min Date: The formula should be something along the lines of =min(B1,B3,B5), jut type in =Min( and then CTRL-click on the columns you want to consider for the row. When your done close with ). After wards double click on the square in the bottom right corner and it will do the same logic for all of the rows.
Column Name: A little more difficult, use the min value from the prior column as the lookup value for VlookUp to get the column name. After wards double click on the square in the bottom right corner and it will do the same logic for all of the rows. I'd explain VlookUp, but I'd run out of characters and attention span long before I got to the relevant parts, and excel functions does a fine job of getting you the basics.
Anyway hope that helps,