Hello,
Very new to access and am having a few issues with my database if anyone could help it would be appreciated. Its a contact database and set up in the following way:
I have a table for company information with details such as registered address, telephone numbers etc.
Then I have a contact table which has a list of contact information such as name email address etc.
I want the contacts to be linked to the company, the way it is set up at the moment is I have a company form which allows you to add new companies or edit existing companies. on this form there is a button which opens up a contact form. At the moment on the form is a box for company name this is set as a drop down box but you can start typing the company name in. I have 2 questions regarding this box:
1) can I set it so this box automatically references the company from which the form opened up from for example if I have just added or edited a company called "test123" when I click the button to add new contact the company "test123" is already set as the company to which I want to link the contact information to.
2) if I cant do the above I can select the company from the drop down box however the drop down box doesn't appear to be showing the full list of companies. for example if I have 2 companies 1 called "Example Belgium" and the other is called "Example UK Ltd" when I scroll down the list it only shows "example Belgium" if I start typing in the box (which starts to filter the list and I type "example U" it then shows "example UK Ltd" so it is obviously in the list I just cant work out why it isn't showing in the first instance.
As I mentioned I'm new to access to tried to ask the question in basic terms so I can understand but if I've left something out or you need more information please ask.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Very new to access and am having a few issues with my database if anyone could help it would be appreciated. Its a contact database and set up in the following way:
I have a table for company information with details such as registered address, telephone numbers etc.
Then I have a contact table which has a list of contact information such as name email address etc.
I want the contacts to be linked to the company, the way it is set up at the moment is I have a company form which allows you to add new companies or edit existing companies. on this form there is a button which opens up a contact form. At the moment on the form is a box for company name this is set as a drop down box but you can start typing the company name in. I have 2 questions regarding this box:
1) can I set it so this box automatically references the company from which the form opened up from for example if I have just added or edited a company called "test123" when I click the button to add new contact the company "test123" is already set as the company to which I want to link the contact information to.
2) if I cant do the above I can select the company from the drop down box however the drop down box doesn't appear to be showing the full list of companies. for example if I have 2 companies 1 called "Example Belgium" and the other is called "Example UK Ltd" when I scroll down the list it only shows "example Belgium" if I start typing in the box (which starts to filter the list and I type "example U" it then shows "example UK Ltd" so it is obviously in the list I just cant work out why it isn't showing in the first instance.
As I mentioned I'm new to access to tried to ask the question in basic terms so I can understand but if I've left something out or you need more information please ask.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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