special template needed

[tiffany_m]

I am looking for something to help a pet food bank keep track of their
customers from month to month. We keep track of name, address, phone, email,
up to 5 cats and 4 dogs, including pets name, species, breed, weight, age,
and spayed/neutered, the amount of food given, any special needs, and what
requirements that have not been met yet. I was thinking Access would have
what I'm looking for but I don't know much about it to even know where to
begin. ANY help would be beneficial and greatly appreciated. We would also
need to be able to print out information on index cards or labels that
contain the immediate information like: owner last and first name, pet name,
species, weight, food alotted.

 

[John W. Vinson]

I am looking for something to help a pet food bank keep track of their
customers from month to month. We keep track of name, address, phone, email,
up to 5 cats and 4 dogs, including pets name, species, breed, weight, age,
and spayed/neutered, the amount of food given, any special needs, and what
requirements that have not been met yet. I was thinking Access would have
what I'm looking for but I don't know much about it to even know where to
begin. ANY help would be beneficial and greatly appreciated. We would also
need to be able to print out information on index cards or labels that
contain the immediate information like: owner last and first name, pet name,
species, weight, food alotted.

That's very narrow and specific; most templates are much broader and more
general.

It's best to think of Access, not as a set of finished products, but as a
toolkit from which you can build something specific for your business; i.e.
you don't get a garden storage shed, but rather lumber, nails, hammers, screws
screwdrivers and hinges. <g>

Access is very much capable of doing what you ask; a database I built is in
use by a number of animal shelters, and tracks tens of thousands of animals,
including most of the characteristics you mention. It would be overkill for
your application (not to mention pretty expensive) but yes, you can do all
this.

You might want to look at some of these resources, especially the tutorials:

Jeff Conrad's resources page:
http://www.accessmvp.com/JConrad/accessjunkie/resources.html

The Access Web resources page:
http://www.mvps.org/access/resources/index.html

Roger Carlson's tutorials, samples and tips:
http://www.rogersaccesslibrary.com/

A free tutorial written by Crystal:
http://allenbrowne.com/casu-22.html

A video how-to series by Crystal:
http://www.YouTube.com/user/LearnAccessByCrystal

MVP Allen Browne's tutorials:
http://allenbrowne.com/links.html#Tutorials

or post back if you have specific questions.

 

[Steve]

Hello Tiffany,

I would like to offer to build your database for you. There would be a small
fee. Contact me.

Steve
(e-mail address removed)

 

[John W. Vinson]

Hello Tiffany,

I would like to offer to build your database for you. There would be a small
fee. Contact me.

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Tiffany, Steve routinely violates these rules. You might want to consider
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[John... Visio MVP]

Hello Tiffany,

I would like to offer to build your database for you. There would be a
small fee. Contact me.

Steve
(e-mail address removed)

Stevie is our own personal pet troll who is the only one who does not
understand the concept of FREE peer to peer support!
He offers questionable results at unreasonable prices.

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.

Please do not feed the trolls.

John... Visio MVP

 

[Mark Andrews]

Tiffany,

If you want to build it yourself there are lots of example databases out
there:
Microsoft's database template page has some generic templates:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/CT101172481033.aspx

Since I'm a pet lover and myself and my wife have 4 cats (one has FIV) I
could throw something together
for you for free. Maybe get you started with a back-end database and the
front-end code to link the tables and some basic screens and reports. If
the terminology "back-end tables and front-end to link the tables" is
foreign to you I recommend you either
take some steps to learn microsoft access or hire a professional.

I'm pretty busy on Monday but feel free to give me a call later next week or
send an email at any time if you would like some help or just call me if you
have questions while you are building the database yourself for some free
help.

I would have to ask you a few questions about what you need to build your
database. I also might ask for a testimonial if I end up building you a
database for free, you know get those pet lovers to pick RPT Software
etc....

You can always try google for "Microsoft Access Consultant"
http://www.google.com/search?source...HP_enUS365US365&q=microsoft+access+consultant
or
"Microsoft Access Template"
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...ccess+template&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

--
Mark Andrews
RPT Software
http://www.rptsoftware.com
http://www.donationmanagementsoftware.com
http://www.microsoftaccesstemplate.com