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12 September 2007

Access Man, I hate it. Is there a local guru who can help me?→[More:] I built a purchase order database and I have five items, five item costs... I want to put a total in, and it needs to be an unbound object or query, but I have no idea how to proceed...

post by: chuckdarwin at: 15:06 | 9 comments

The last database I used was Paradox.

Sorry.

posted by danf 12 September | 15:08

I know a little Access, but probably not enough to help. Sorry!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 12 September | 15:25

Thanks anyway.

posted by chuckdarwin 12 September | 15:32

I can probably help. You want the total of the five items, or all the potential totals of any of the five? Where does this total need to show up?

posted by desjardins 12 September | 16:37

Chuck, I have built my own purchase order database in Access (97). It works pretty well; if you would like to take a look at it, drop me an email.

posted by deadcowdan 12 September | 17:41

Er, or if that isn't helpful, could you clarify your question? I'm not sure exactly what it is you're trying to do.

posted by deadcowdan 12 September | 17:50

Consider yourself emailed.

posted by chuckdarwin 12 September | 18:04

I'm trying to put a autocalculated five-item total on the form which doesn't write to the table...

posted by chuckdarwin 12 September | 18:08

Consider yourself emailed back. Let me know if that helped.

posted by deadcowdan 12 September | 19:39

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