Lookup Value & Concatenating

[Guest]

I have a Text field name Company ID in Table 1, where you
can enter values as 20,30,201, - each value separated by
commas represent Company A., Company B., Company C. I
want to lookup those value in another table (Table 2) and
have them concatenate as Company A. Company B. Company C.
under another Text Field in Table 1.

Table 1 Table 2
Company ID Company ID Company Name
20,30,201, 20 Company A.
30 Company B.
201 Company C.
Under Table 1
you would have another Text Field, named Company Names,
where those lookup values for Company ID would be
concatenated as: Company A. Company B. Company C.

Any suggestions or solutions to this complicated scenerio
would be greatly appreciated.

Thank-you,
Hans

 

[Rebecca Riordan]

Hans,

Don't do it this way. You should have separate records for each of the
companies in Table 1. If you do that, most of your complications will go
away.

HTH

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[Tim Ferguson]

Any suggestions or solutions to this complicated scenerio
would be greatly appreciated.

Try correcting the schema design. Check out first and second normal forms.

B Wishes


Tim F

 

[Eric Butts [MSFT]]

Hi Hans,

If I understand your scenario correctly you have in Table1 the following
records:

CompanyID CompanyName
-------------- ------------------
20,30,201
15,25,35
45,50,65

Would like the result of:

CompanyID CompanyName
-------------- ------------------
20,30,201 CompanyA, CompanyB, CompanyE
15,25,35 CompanyG, CompanyM, CompanyT
45,50,65 CompanyW, CompanyX, CompanyS

To start with you are going to need to parse out the CompanyID. Take a
look at Method 2 of the following article for some ideas. You need NOT
place the results in Multiple Fields.

ACC: How to Parse Comma-Separated Text into Multiple Fields
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=95608

I hope this helps! If you have additional questions on this topic, please
respond back to this posting.


Regards,

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| I have a Text field name Company ID in Table 1, where you
| can enter values as 20,30,201, - each value separated by
| commas represent Company A., Company B., Company C. I
| want to lookup those value in another table (Table 2) and
| have them concatenate as Company A. Company B. Company C.
| under another Text Field in Table 1.
|
| Table 1 Table 2
| Company ID Company ID Company Name
| 20,30,201, 20 Company A.
| 30 Company B.
| 201 Company C.
| Under Table 1
| you would have another Text Field, named Company Names,
| where those lookup values for Company ID would be
| concatenated as: Company A. Company B. Company C.
|
| Any suggestions or solutions to this complicated scenerio
| would be greatly appreciated.
|
| Thank-you,
| Hans
|