Creating a pop up message/reminder

[Johnny]

I need to create a follow up reminder for my sales people in their contact
management database. I want them to put a follow up phone call date in when
they make new phone calls. I have added this field in my table and created a
new form with this information. How do create a pop up reminder when the
date hits? So when they log in they know to check their follow up calls to
make. I am relatively new to Access and I'm not sure if this is possible or
what the technical name for this would be. Can anyone guide me in this
regard? Your help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Jeff Boyce]

Johnny

This may be a simpler approach than what you have in mind...

You could create a report that lists all the call-backs for the Date()
(current date), then run that each day and post the report. Not very
high-tech or elegant, but ...

It's also possible to create tables and procedures and set up your
application to fire off a scan of who needs to get what notification and
when, and handles the notification (email, popup, report) ... this is not a
task a beginning is likely to achieve on first try!

Good luck!

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Office/Access MVP