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The way the datbase is set up, there is a list of contacts. Each contact has multiple classes, which I assume are in another table from the student, but it is showing on the form. When I rightclick to filter, it still hows me ALL the students, but if they didn't take that class, their classes section is blank.
ALL I WANT TO DO IS SEND A @$#! EMAIL!!!!
(sorry, I don't know what got into me) I want to make them buy me Filemaker, but I know they won't.
But, thanks-- the rightclick does work!
Oh- and Jessica, I don't even see the view menu- just the page he has created.
It is like I am using a completely non-beta tested database built by someone who is just starting out building a database, but I can't get behind it to figure out what is going on.
Oh- and Jessica, I don't even see the view menu- just the page he has created.
Gah, how annoying. They should totally buy you Filemaker!
Sophia, I have gone from Access to Filemaker in the past, and found them really similar. I think you shouldn't have a hard time translating your skills. However, I'd get that menu bar back!
Can you get your boss to show you how to get in the back end.
but I can't get behind it to figure out what is going on.
Do you have a database window?
Also, do you have a bar right under the title bar? Where the File, Edit, etc. would be? Right click on that and select "customize".
Also, you could create a new Access database and link to the tables in the one you're working with. Linking means you edit the data directly (it's not an import) so you'll have access to the data and the menu bars too.
As they're saying, it would really help if you had the menus and toolbars available. The ability to design a query would be even better. If you do get the toolbar back, the little binoculars is the icon for find.
Thanks guys!
I have 2 bosses. One uses access like this.
One creates JUST a table, types in the information, and does nothing else. She retypes if she needs mailing labels, etc. And she does a separate one for each class. So there are, like, 8 million 6 entry 1 table access databases. AND I have to retype the information that I type into the database for the classlist into excel for the accountant. Then the accountant retypes it into quickbooks!
My plan is to learn access and redo her so we can have one big database for all students for all classes, and so that we can actually get monetary reports instead of doing them by hand! She would be better off using just excel for now though.
The good thing is that it is becoming clear that the reason they brought me on (I am a new position) is to help fix these things, so basically I am going to spend the fall semester learning things, Christmas Break setting up some new processes and Spring impletmenting them, because the way they are set up now they cannot grow.
Hmm. Hmm.
I wonder how much of what I have conforms to their standards...
Seems like, in many cases, it would be faster to burn a CD with the video file on it and pop it into the TV's DVD player (assuming you've got a player that'll play most anything, like the Phillips).
it would be faster to burn a CD with the video file on it and pop it into the TV's DVD player
Well, for onesies. But if you, like me, have multiple eps of TV sitting on your HD and HD space on the TiVo and you can get some of the TiVoly benefits (being paused in multiple shows, for instance) it can appeal.