In access I want a single form which can input data into a junction table. The relationships are as follows.
One table has plant names and basic information on the plants, another table has soil moisture content and another table has county names in which certain plants may be found. One plant may be found in many counties and many plants may be found in one county. Same goes for moisture. Thus, this database needs to many to many relationships. How can I make a form which takes a plantID as well as the counties and moistures of that plant and forms an entry in the junction table? Am I approaching this problem in an appropriate way?
Assuming that you only need to add records to the junction table from this form, build a form bound to the junction table.
If you use the wizard, your new form should list each field as a textbox.
For each field that is a foreign key, change the textbox to a combobox. Use the row source property to pull the information from that field's devoted table where the PK resides.
So for example, MoistureID will become a combobox whose row source would be:
SELECT MoistureID, Moisture
FROM Moisture;
The ID field will then be the output of the combobox but will display the Moisture field when the list opens. You can hide the ID field from the user by changing the "column width" property to 0";1" but make sure the "column count" property = 2.
Then you can change the form's data entry property to "yes" to hide the existing junction records from the view of the form.
In form view, choose your plant ID and other selections and once you tab past the end of the form's tab order, your junction record should append to the junction table and the form's controls should clear.
If you need to add records to other tables from this form then you will need to build an unbound form and handle the appends using macros or VBA.
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I'm trying to create a simple 2 table database - table 1 holds ClientInfo and table 2 has ClientVisits - Relationship is on ClientInfo.ID->ClientVisits.ClientID. Then I have a form created thus for viewing the ClientInfo plus a child(sub?)table which SHOULD show all the records from ClientVisits where my Form ClientID = ClientVisits.ClientID.
Here is my form
Here is the child table with fields shown
Relationships
So I already have one record in ClientVisits for the currently chosen ClientID form record. But it doesn't show in my Table.ClientVisits. Other than the relationship I don't have any other link between the ClientID and the ClientVisits.ClientID field.
If I need to post further info please let me know, trying to describe this as well as I can - sorry if it's not making sense. Thanks.
You have to link both tables in your form.
In my example, main data of my form is a table called CLIENTES, where it shows all the information about a cliente. It would be exactly the same as your table ClientDetails. In this table, primary key is a field called DNI (it would be the equivalent of your ID field)
I got a second table called CONSULTAS MÉDICAS. This table is just a list of how many times this client comes to see us. It would be the same as your secondary table CLIENT VISITS. In this table, I got a field called PACIENTE, linked to my table CLIENTES. Let me show you.
Ok, now my form is done based on the data of my table CLIENTES, but I got a subform control, where I have linked the table CONSULTAS MÉDICAS
To make this work is pretty easy. Not filters or queries. Just linked child and master fields. To do this, you have to select properties of your subform control, and then go to DATA TAB
Just choose as main field your ID field from table CLIENT DETAILS and link it to child field CLIENT ID from table CLIENT VISITS
That should work for you.
The objective:
Having a many-to-many relation be displayed as a dynamic list of select inputs(single choice dropdown list)
User arrives on page with a single select field (multiple = false) populated with persisted entities and add/remove buttons. By clicking the add button, a new select field with the same options appears below the first, which adds a new entry in the M2M relation. By clicking remove the field disappears and the entry should be removed.
The model:
Two entities: User & Manager. A User has exactly one "special" Manager and unlimited normal Managers.
Managers manage unlimited users.To model this I have created two relationships for which the user is the "owner" (not sure how to translate this)
ManyToOne specialManager
ManyToMany normalManagers
I haven't created a many to many relationship with attribute "special" because the requirement is exactly one special manager and I wasn't sure if Symfony/Doctrine would cause problems down the line.
What I have:
I can display a multiple select field with the existing entities using Entity field type, as per the documentation. Functionally this is what I need, visually it is not.
I can also use the Collection field type to display a single text field, and add or remove more with JS, as per the documentation. Visually this is what I need, but The text fields (entity attribute) need to be replaced by choice field.
The question:
Before I continue digging, is there a simple way to achieve this list of select tags?
For anyone else who may eventually need a dynamic list of select fields:
I initially solved this issue by detaching the field(s) in event listeners, and handling the display/submission manually in the controller.
However I wasn't satisfied with this clunky solution and when I encountered the same need I used a second solution: creating an intermediary entity xxxChoice (in this case ManagerChoice) which is Mto1 inversed related to User and Mto1 related to Manager. Then by creating a ManagerChoiceType form with "Manager" entity field type I was able to easily display my collection of dropdown select lists.
I have two entities, Bookings and Discharge.
When a record is created in Bookings, it automatically creates a record in Discharge. Discharge
has an additional field that is a drop down with four options.
I want a functionality where when any one of the values in drop down is chosen, the similar record in Bookings
should shift from "Active" view to a default view which I have created by the name of "Processed" in Bookings.
What I have in mind is to create a hidden field in Bookings that is populated when I choose one of the options from Discharge drop down and based on that field the record should shift the view in Bookings. But how do I populate the hidden field? Workflow is not giving me that option or maybe I am doing something wrong.
Help?
So I have created a 1:N relationship between Booking and Discharge. The field is updated in Booking based on the field in Discharge and I choose the particular record in Booking from the look up field in Discharge. But I want to get rid of this second step. I don't want to choose the record in Booking entity but directly update it from Discharge. There are some fields and their values common in both forms, can I create a relationship based on that?
Regarding the first part of your question
"What I have in mind is to create a hidden field in Bookings that is populated when I choose one of the options from Discharge drop down and based on that field the record should shift the view in Bookings. But how do I populate the hidden field?"
If the field is not on a form you can't set its value hence the following:
I don't believe you can set a hidden field using a workflow. However there is a 'visibility' option on the form designer.
I suggest you add your "hidden" field to the form. Then double click on it and toggle the "Visible by default" checkbox. This will hide the field from the user.
You can then set the value of this field using a workflow.
Regarding part two of your question
I don't want to choose the record in Booking entity but directly update it from Discharge. There are some fields and their values common in both forms, can I create a relationship based on that
You have a 1:N relationship however you want to set the related Booking Dynamically is this correct? You cannot select a Booking in the lookup field based on criteria from a workflow. You would need to use a plugin.
If the Discharge has a related Booking (the Booking lookup on Discharge is already set) then you can use a workflow to either:
1) Set a field value (Using 'Update Record' in the Workflow steps) in the parent Booking
2) set to Inactive (Using 'Change Status' in the Workflow steps) in the parent Booking
I have a little databes in access. I make a few forms with sub forms and drop list(by query):
Steps of my creating form:
make form from table
delete all not PK or FK text box
create comboBox with store value to text box what I choase
create subForm and set Link Master Fields and child fields
design view:
This is form for table Task task have Fk: Project, peson etc. DropLists are connected tu subform for changing FK like project, person etc. So when I work i select in droplists what i want add to database and work with subForm. When I close this form, the first row in table change FK to last configuration on droplists.. Pleas how can I fix it?
It is quite possible to use a main form for selecting and updating subform records, but in this case it should not be a bound form.
To set up, for want of a better word, a linking form, unbind the main form, that is remove the record source and ensure the dropdowns (comboboxes) do not have control sources. I suggest you rename the dropdowns to cbo, to indicate that they are controls, not fields. The hidden controls should not be needed.
The value of a combobox is the value of the bound column. The Key or FK is the first item in your SELECT statement and the bound column is 1 (one) so the relevant Key or FK is the value of each comboboxe. You can set the link master fields to the names of controls so the Link Master Fields should be cbo_id_projekt;cbo_id_os_udaje;cbo_id_komponent;cbo_id_uloha.
As an aside, I generally avoid underscores, but each to their own.
How to bind multiple tables to a binding navigator using data source wizard in C# so that when textbox1 value changes the values in other textboxes should be change which contains data from other table. tables have foreign key relationships.
The BindingNavigator should have a BindingSource value set to the BindingSource object of your "parent" or "master" table in the dataset (same as textBox1). The "other table" controls should have a BindingSource object that points to the "child" datatables. If your relationships are properly setup then when you change the master/parent record with the bindingnavigator then the detail/child records will update accordingly
Basically, the binding source for your "other tables" should have a DataSource value pointing to the BindingSource of your primary table (the binding source of textbox1) and
should have a DataMember value of the relationship/FK that points to the respective secondary table.
If you are using drag and drop datasources then be sure you are dragging over the data sources that utilize the relationships. So say you created a dataset with 3 tables with tiered relationships: Grandparent, Parent, Child. In your Data Sources window you will see all three datatables side by side. You are probably dragging the desired Grandparent field over and getting your binding navigator, binding source, and textbox created, correct? You might think you are supposed to then use those side-by-side root-level Parent and Child datasources but that is WRONG. Expand the Grandparent source and at the end of columns listed you will see Parent listed again nested underneath Grandparent. Expand that and use those columns. At the bottom of that nested Parent you will see a Child data source that you can expand and use columns from.