Database or Spreadsheet

J

Joy

I need to create a list of plants where the user could select only the plants
needed for a particular job so that they could send the list to a supplier
for prices. It must be user friendly. I hope to be able to save time using
lists, probably a drop down list, of plants instead of typing them out each
time. Would I be better using Access or Excel and how would I go about it.
The information needed on the list would be:
Name of plant
Size
height
etc

It would be great if I could create something that made it easy to use - in
the manner of opening up the database or worksheet and just selecting the
various plants you want.

Can anyone help me with this please.

Thanks

Joy
 
S

Steve

Start with these suggested tables:
TblPlant
PlantID
PlantName
<other plant fields>
Selected (Yes/No)

TblPlantSize
PlantSizeID
PlantSize

TblPlantHeight
PlantHeightID
PlantHeight

TblPlantSupplier
PlantSupplierID
PlantID
PlantSupplier
<plant supplier contact fields>

TblJob
JobID
JobDesc
JobDate
<other job fields>

TblJobPlant
JobPlantID
JobID
PlantID
PlantSizeID
PlantHeightID

Steve
 

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