Guest/Room Allocation Database

G

geordie_phil

Hi all,

I am an Access novice and need to create a database which will help me
assign rooms, with host families, to international exchange students. I also
need to be able to check availability of rooms etc. at any given date.

At the moment I have a table with Family ID, Name, Address, Number of Rooms
(typically 1,2 or 3 rooms per family).

When a student arrives I need to be able to assign him/her to an available
room (which then needs to be blocked out to avoid double booking) for the
duration of their stay.

I guess it would work something like a hotel booking system.

As I have mentioned, I am an Access novice and would like some clear
instructions/guidelines on what other Tables and Queries etc. I would need to
set up.

As a more advanced feature, would it be possible to assign available rooms
to groups of students, who all arrive as part of the same visit? (If this
part of my request becomes too complex I apologise and would be sincerely
grateful for just the answer to the first part of my issue). For example, if
I had a group of 12 students arriving from a particular country, could i set
up a Table containing their information and then cross-reference it to the
available rooms to block out those bookings?

I'm sorry if my question is a bit 'wordy' I'm finding it difficult to
explain in better terms.

I hope someone might be able to help.

Kind regards!
 
J

Jason Lepack

Families:
Family_ID
Family_Name
Address

Family_Rooms:
Family_Room_ID
Family_ID
Family_Room_Desc
Family_Room_Size
etc

Students:
Student_ID
Student_Name
etc

Student_Rooms:
Family_Room_ID
Student_ID
Move_In_Date
Move_Out_Date


Then if any record in Student_Rooms has a Move_Out_Date that is null,
the family_room_id is currently being lived in.


Cheers,
Jason Lepack
 
G

geordie_phil

Excellent, thanks very much!

Jason Lepack said:
Families:
Family_ID
Family_Name
Address

Family_Rooms:
Family_Room_ID
Family_ID
Family_Room_Desc
Family_Room_Size
etc

Students:
Student_ID
Student_Name
etc

Student_Rooms:
Family_Room_ID
Student_ID
Move_In_Date
Move_Out_Date


Then if any record in Student_Rooms has a Move_Out_Date that is null,
the family_room_id is currently being lived in.


Cheers,
Jason Lepack
 

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