I am importing data from an old database (we call it AS400) into my Access'03 database. The data corresponds to price increases shown as follows...

     CustNum,P/C,PreviousPrice,FuturePrice,EffectiveDate
     80000,123456,0.1234,0.0000,
     80000,123457,0.1234,1.1234,10/01/2007

The system does not update the future price if there will not be a price increase (as shown above)... When there is a price increase, it does not show the increment, but the updated price. I used the IIF Formula to select the correct price...

     10/01/07: IIf([tblQuotes]![Increased]<>0,[tblQuotes]![Increased],[tblQuotes]![Previous])

In a select query, I get the desired result; one field labeled with the most recent price increase. But I would like to update these numbers to a table with a field named for the date of the most recent price increase. My intention would be to eventually track my price increases over time for various products and customers. I tried to use my IIF statement in an update query where the field to update to was named 10/01/07. That's when it crapped out... the error message reads,

     "'IIF([tblQuotes]![Increased]<>0,[tblQuotes]![Increased],
     [tblQuotes]![Previous])' Is not a valid name. Make sure that
     it does not include invalid characters or punctuation and that
     it is not too long."

I only get this message if I change my query type to an update query... which is what I *think* I want to do. Of course, that's where it gets dangerous... sheep who think. Can anyone give advice on how else I can store data as ONE field to track it every time I have a price increase? i've already searched for Update queries and IIF Formulas. I've seen lots of stuff out there but nothing directly related to my issue. Any help would be appreciated.

I am not sure if the date is a valid field name.

I would suggest restructuring the table to two tables in order to keep a history of price increases. I wouldn't rely on adding a new field named for the date each time you want to update prices. Is that what you are trying to do?

In any event, there has to be a field named 10/07/07 in the updated table to receive the values from your equation on the update. Are you able to select the target field when making the update query?

mmcdonal

This is an odd table structure. If you want to keep a history of prices, I would just have one price field and one date field to show what the price was at that date. Say the price was first set on 9/1/2007, so instead of:

CustNum, P/C, PreviousPrice, FuturePrice, EffectiveDate
80000,123456,0.1234,0.0000,
80000,123457,0.1234,1.1234,10/01/2007

I would have

CustNum, P/C, Price, EffectiveDate
80000, 123456, 0.1234, 9/1/2007
80000, 123457, 1.1234, 10/01/2007

In that way, you can always track price vs. date and get a history. To get any price increase difference, just subtract the two prices for any two given dates.



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

I use this formula in excel to get P.Tax from gross. "M6" is gross. =IF(AND(M6>3501,M6<10001),0,IF(AND(M6>10001,M6<150 01),110,IF(AND(M6>15001,M6<25001),130,IF(AND(M6>25 001,M6<40001),150,IF(M6>40001,200,0)))))

Now can anyone help me how i use this type of formula in access?

If you're talking about what to put into an Access query, then you can express this as:

PTax: IIF(M6>40001,200,IIF(M6>25001,150,IIF(M6>15001,130 ,IIF(M6>10001,110,0))))

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Greg Serrano
Michigan Dept. of Environmental Quality
Air Quality Division

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