Help Setting up database

[Steve]

I have a trail version of access 2007 which I am trying to set up the
following:
I have 3 linked excel files 1) "employee link" contains a list of all
colleague in our company with info about employee #, position, store #, date
hired, etc which is updated weekly from our payroll records 2) "store link"
contains store data like location, manager, district manager, hr manager, etc
3) "LC link" which contain info about my group which is responsible for
training like location, manager, phone #, etc. I also have 1 table called
"training" which I want to capture training compliance eg. course completed,
date completed, etc. What I want to have is one form were when one of my team
enters an employee # it pulls the employee info from the "employee link" and
based on the store # pulls up the info from the "store link" and "LC Link".
once that in is on the form they can enter in any training that has been
completed and that info is captured "training" table. one last step would be
this form will be posted on a sharepoint and multiple users will need to
access at the same time.

so my 2 questions are
1) does this sound like something access can do
2) can anyone provide me with step by step guide on how to set this up.

 

[John... Visio MVP]

Hello Steve

Yes, Access is the tool to use to do what you want. The nature of your
second question suggests you need extensive help. The learning curve for
Access is quite long.

but stevie is NOT the help you need!

Rather than spending a lot of your time trying to set

up this database, I would like to offer to create the database for you. I
provide help with Access, Excel and Word applications for a very
reasonable fee. My fee to help you would be nominal. If you want my help,
contact me.

Steve
(e-mail address removed)

These newsgroups are provided by Microsoft for FREE peer to peer support.
There are many highly qualified individuals who gladly help for free. Stevie
is not one of them, but he is the only one who just does not get the idea of
"FREE" support. He offers questionable results at unreasonable prices. If he
was any good, the "thousands" of people he claims to have helped would be
flooding him with work, but there appears to be a continuous drought and he
needs to constantly grovel for work.

A few gems gleaned from the Word New User newsgroup over the Christmas
holidays to show Stevie's "expertise" in Word.


Dec 17, 2008 7:47 pm

Word 2007 ..........
In older versions of Word you could highlght some text then go to Format -
Change Case and change the case of the hoghloghted text. Is this still
available in Word 2007? Where?
Thanks! Steve


Dec 22, 2008 8:22 pm

I am designing a series of paystubs for a client. I start in landscape and
draw a table then add columns and rows to setup labels and their
corresponding value. This all works fine. After a landscape version is
completed, I next need to design a portrait version. Rather than strating
from scratch, I'd like to be able to cut and paste from the landscape
version and design the portrait version.
Steve


Dec 24, 2008, 1:12 PM

How do you protect the document for filling in forms?
Steve


One of my favourites:
Dec 30, 2008 8:07 PM - a reply to stevie
(The original poster asked how to sort a list and stevie offered to create
the OP an Access database)

Yes, you are right but a database is the correct tool to use not a
spreadsheet.

Not at all. If it's just a simple list then a spreadsheet is perfectly
adequate...




John... Visio MVP

 

[Bob Quintal]

I have a trail version of access 2007 which I am trying to set up
the following:
I have 3 linked excel files 1) "employee link" contains a list of
all colleague in our company with info about employee #, position,
store #, date hired, etc which is updated weekly from our payroll
records 2) "store link" contains store data like location,
manager, district manager, hr manager, etc 3) "LC link" which
contain info about my group which is responsible for training like
location, manager, phone #, etc. I also have 1 table called
"training" which I want to capture training compliance eg. course
completed, date completed, etc. What I want to have is one form
were when one of my team enters an employee # it pulls the
employee info from the "employee link" and based on the store #
pulls up the info from the "store link" and "LC Link". once that
in is on the form they can enter in any training that has been
completed and that info is captured "training" table. one last
step would be this form will be posted on a sharepoint and
multiple users will need to access at the same time.

so my 2 questions are
1) does this sound like something access can do
2) can anyone provide me with step by step guide on how to set
this up.

This is definitely something Access can do and do very well.

The usual way of setting this up is to create a select query that
joins the employee table with the stores table, based on the store
id.. Then you create a form that displays the information from that
query.

Then you would create a subform embedded in the form above to allow
viewing and editing the training info.

I'm not sure what is the implications of the LC_Link data,how it
relates to the training table. Can you explain.

You may also want a courses table, which details what subject is
taught by a teacher, frequency of retraining, etc.