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Old October 31st, 2007, 06:50 AM
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I've looked a lot of places and thought about a lot of different things but can't find a way of doing what i want to do. i'm now hoping one of you cleverer than me can help me out.

what i have is a two tables, one that has aircraft restraints and one that has aircraft seats. but generally many seats will use the same design of restraint so in my report i want to list the seats and then give the details of the restraint. so it needs to be "seat1, seat2, seat3, ... " then below that the restraint that those seats use.

i can't find out if there is a way to list the seats like that, i can get them vertical very easily, lol.

any ideas? all ideas welcome!

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What is the current data structure? (Tables, columns, relationships?)


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well, just looking at it has got my brain in a twist - but the important bit i think is two tables,
"tblDrawingNos" with the fields
"drawing no" (text)
"divan" (yes \ no)

and
"tblRestraints" with the fields
"divan" (yes \ no)
"part number" (text)

it's linked on the "divan" field, so all the records in "tblDrawingNos" that have a no for divan use one restraint, and all the yeses use another restraint.

does that make any sense? and in my report i want to list them in a line like so:

"number1, number2, number3
use such and such a restraint"

possible?

 
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Can you do this: use the actual field name. For example, do you want:

"drawing no, drawing no, drawing no...

or

"part number, part number, part number...

when you say number 1 number 2 etc?

Also, what is the "restraint" field? I see "divan," "drawing no," and "part number," but no restraint field.

What I think you should do is to create a table with your two columns, like this:

tblReport
mConcatenate - memo
tRestraint - text

Then create a delete query to remove all items from the table before you run each report.

Then create the code to concatenate the fields in the memo column, and add the restraint column.

Then run the report.

You can take parameters and then pass them to the SQL string that opens the recordset to build the data.

Will that work?


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sorry, that last bit wasn't very clear was it -

it is supposed to be "drawing no, drawing no, drawing no" use restraint "part number".

but, that aside - your method sounds like it will work and i will set about trying to make it happen!

thank you very much for your response, i'll write another reply when i've had a play around with it.

 
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thank you very much mmcdonal!

got it working perfectly.

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