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- From: iano@world.std.com (Ian J Ornstein)
- Subject: ? Microsoft Access
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- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:37:04 GMT
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- 1.- How can I have a date automatically changed in the TABLE
- when any field in a form is changed? I know I can use =Date()
- in a form field. Can I do this without having a date field on
- the form?
-
- 2.- I'm using counter data type as keys for my tables.
- I'd like to be able to do some sort of look up with the form
- so that the text name from the reference table is displayed in the
- form but only the value of the foreign key is stored in the table.
- How can I do this?
-
- ExampLe:
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-
- C O M P A N I E S
-
- Company_id (Counter) Company_name (Text)
- 1 First company name
- 2 Best company name
- 3 Modem company
- 4 Monitor company name
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- R E P S
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- Rep_id (Counter) Company_id(Number) [Same as Company_id in table COMPANIES]
- Alice 2
- Betty 2
- Carol 4
-
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- FORM_Rep should show the Company_name that corresponds to the
-