I have a header table and several related detail tables.

I am trying to copy them "all" (one specific and complete record, that is) to almost identical header and detail tables. (The original tables are basically holding templet "prompt" data, that the "copy" tables will actually hold all the actual collected data in)

I'm not sure how to go about it, especially since the detial tables will ultimately need the key field from the header table so they can be linked up. Since I will repeatedly use the original tables (the copy tables will hold many duplicates of them) I know I can't just use their key field IDs.

Do I do this with queies or VBA or both or what?

I'm using Access 2000 MDB.

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Mitch

You'll need to do this in steps, and for that, I think you'll need to use VB or VBA. Essentially, you want to read the first row from the header table and write it to the second header table, then immediately reread the second table to get the new record's primary key (assuming it's an AutoNumber field). Once you have the new primary key, you need to process all of the detail records for the original header record. For each one, change the foreign key field to the value of the new header record's primary key, then insert the detail record into the second detail table. Your code might look something like this pseudo code:

    Get all Header1 records
    Do While Not Header1.EOF
        Write the current record to the Header2 table
        Get the highest primary key on the Header2 table and save

        Get all Detail1a records for the current Header1 record
        Do While Not Detail1a.EOF
            Write record to Detail2a with new foreign (primary) key
        Loop

        Get all Detail1b records for the current Header1 record
        Do While Not Detail1b.EOF
            Write record to Detail1b with new foreign (primary) key
        Loop

        .
        etc.
        .
    Loop

Hope this helps.

Pete

Sorry, there was a typo in the pseudo code. It should look like this:

    Get all Header1 records
    Do While Not Header1.EOF
        Write the current record to the Header2 table
        Get the highest primary key on the Header2 table and save

        Get all Detail1a records for the current Header1 record
        Do While Not Detail1a.EOF
            Write record to Detail2a with new foreign (primary) key
        Loop

        Get all Detail1b records for the current Header1 record
        Do While Not Detail1b.EOF
            Write record to Detail2b with new foreign (primary) key
        Loop

        .
        etc.
        .
    Loop

Pete