Ok, ive been looking around and i can neither find tutorials or posts about this before.

What im doing is trying to do is have a form. This form is pulling information from a table that has such data as job name, wirecenter and dates sent to specific people. Now the part i need help is this. I have a part where you need to select what type of job it is.
But the thing each job type obviously has different prices. Now when the select a job type (from a drop down) it pulls the prices and inputs it into the form without the user having to input it. Then when they save the form as a record, it updates the "final prices" into the table.

If someone has an example or send me some DB that could point me in the right direction or even a tutorial id be very much pleased.

-Thanks
Jon

You'll need a table associating job types with their prices, and then to use the DLookup function to pull that price into the form you're using. The examples here: (http://www.techonthenet.com/access/f...in/dlookup.php) should help.

When you say, "it updates the 'final prices' into the table," remember NOT to save the total of the summed prices. That is a waste of dB space. Always recalculate that when you need it.

Only save the individual prices if you need to store a historical value of what they were at the time of purchase and you know the prices per item may change later.


Greg Serrano
Michigan Dept. of Environmental Quality, Air Quality Division