I am tracking employee's leave. The Table tblEmployeeLeave has the following fields:


SSN
LeaveType
LeaveAmount
LeaveDate

tblEmployeeLeave is related to the Table tblEmployees by SSN. It is a one to many Relationship (One employee may be off work numerous times)

I want my Form frmEmployeeLeave to read

SSN
LastName
FirstName

from the Table tblEmployees and I want to be able to enter

LeaveType
LeaveAmount
LeaveDate

for the employee, then save

SSN
LeaveType
LeaveAmount
LeaveDate

to tblEmployeeLeave as a new record.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

David

What exactly is your question? What do you have so far?

Peter

 Hi Peter,

Thank you for getting back to me.

Here is what I want to do:

1. Open a form that allows me to select specific employees who have been off work.

2. Place the SSN, LastName and FirstName of the chosen employee into my form.

3. Input LeaveDate, LeaveType and LeaveAmount into the form.

4. Add new record by placing SSN, LeaveDate, LeaveType, and LeaveAmount into tblEmployeeLeave. (Presumable, the one to many relationship eliminates the need to also put employee's name into the tblEmployeeLeave, since tblEmployeeLeave is related to tblEmployee.)

This is what I have done:

1. Created relationship between tblEmployees and tblEmployeeLeave

2. Created form that has field for SSN, LastName, FirstName, LeaveDate, LeaveType and LeaveAmount.


I do not know how to place SSN, LastName and FirstName from tblEmployees into my form, so I can input leave information regarding specific employee.

I hope this clears it up.

Thanks,

David

What are you using for your front end application.

Sal

Hi Sal,

I'm only using Access 2002 and the VBA application that comes with it.

Thanks,

David

Create a query (in SQL) that look like this:

Save this query and base your form on it. When you open the form an input box will be displayed asking you to enter an SSN, the form will then have all the data it needs to display that employees leave details.

Regards
Owain Williams

Hi, I hope this can help. Since you already have a relationship you'll only get the SSN from the Form and map that SSN into the tblEmployess.

So everytime that you want to show the leave information on the user, you'll have to map using the SSN from the two tables, first match the SSN to get the Name, Addres, etc from the tblEmployees and secont, match the SSN to get the leave information of the employee from the tblEmployeeLeave. Did it solved your query?

Just set up a form in "Single Form View" (Employees Form) and use the employees table as a data source.
Then create a form in "Data Sheet View" (Employees LeaveForm) use the employees leave table as a data source, and use it as a subform inside your "Employees Form"
Then use the SSN as Link Child Fields. This will ensure that your data is being entered in the correct tables.


Sal

Thanks Sal,

It worked like a charm.

David

p.s. I appreciate everyone's help on this one.