Schedule display

[Utkarsh]

Hi
I have a simple table that has the following fields:

Name, Assignment_number, Description, Start_date, End_date

I need to display either in a form or a report a track of the workload
of different individuals over a given week (or between two dates) in
the following format:
1/1/2006 1/2/2006 1/3/2006 1/4/2006
1/5/2006 1/6/2006
Name1 Description Description Description
Name2 Description Description
Name3 Description Description
Description

I can do it easily in Excel. Is this do-able in Access? How? Any help
would be greatly appreciated.

Utkarsh

 

[Rod Plastow]

Hi Utkarsh,

Is this do-able in Access? Yup! But I guess you want the longer answer. I
can envisage two ways of doing this: one is to use a fairly complex query (or
command object) and the other is to create a temporary table compatible with
your report format. I need however to know how proficient you feel yourself
to be with SQL and/or VBA and/or Access.

I guess your column headings that are the first days of Gregorian calendar
months will change over time. They are therefore candidates for query
parameters (or perhaps you only need to supply the first one from which you
can generate a fixed number of successive dates). Also what happens when an
assignment period spans a month break? Do you include the description twice,
once under each month?

Finally, as a 'wicked' thought: do you have MS Project on your system? This
application 'cries out' for Access to post the data into Project. By
implication I know you have Excel which would be a second-best output medium.

Regards,

Rod