Add to certain values based on another field in the database

[Luna Saisho]

Hiya!

I have made a database to track our warehouse employees that's coming along
great! But, believe it or not, I'm stuck in one area. I'm not an expert
by any means with Access, but I have a good grip on what I'm doing now.

So here's the deal... Of all the information entered, I need to have a
report add up values based on the area they worked in. I have one field that
allows you to select where they worked, such as Shipping or Palletizer, and
two other fields, shift and hours. Shift and hours tell us what shift they
worked, and how many hours they worked for.

So what I need help with, is if, say... one person works 8 hours in
Shipping, it needs to add their hours to a Shipping Hours value, and if they
worked in Palletizer, it would have to go to a Palletizer value, and so on
for five different catagories. Then I just average pallets handled with the
hours for that area in the report, which is the easy bit.

Can anyone lend a hand pointing me in the right direction?

Thanks!!
Steph

 

[Luna Saisho]

I realize I didn't describe things well enough, so here's some bits that I
think might help someone help me... The layout of the report I'm working on
is something like this:

Employee name
------------------------
Date Stats for the various areas (This line repeats
for all dates requested)
Area worked
------------------------
Summary/Averages of above information
------------------------
Summary of all areas, shown at bottom of report

It's that summary at the bottom that I'm having issues with. In order to
get the right averages of pallets handled, I need to add the hours in the
Date lines for each catagory.

If anyone can help, it would be so very appreciated.
Thanks!
Steph