Hi All,
I am in the process of setting up a research register for our School. I am attempting to put together a form that our Admin staff at each of our locations can just call up and enter potential projects into which when they hit the ADD RECORD button which will populate a table called Project Info.
Project Info calls on a few other tables - Investigators (which is a list of all the currently employed academic staff), Location, Discipline and Sub Discipline.
Discipline is a straight list of all the different disciplines with a autonumber ID. My problem comes with the sub discipline table.
1. I am not sure if it should even be a separate table, or if it should be a column in Discipline as not every discipline has sub disciplines.
2. It is currently set up as three columns ID,SD_Surg and SD_Med.
What I am trying to do in my form -
When the admin staff selects a discipline from the first combo box I want this result to
1. See if the Sub Discipline box needs to be populated
2. if the discipline is Medicine or Surgery I want it to display to appropriate sub disciplines in the 2nd drop down box which are currently 2 different columns with blanks in various places.
I have been reading about drop down cascade boxes etc for three days, and nothing seems to work properly. The rest of the form works its just this one sticking point.
Am hoping someone can help.
Thanks
Zelda
I am in the process of setting up a research register for our School. I am attempting to put together a form that our Admin staff at each of our locations can just call up and enter potential projects into which when they hit the ADD RECORD button which will populate a table called Project Info.
Project Info calls on a few other tables - Investigators (which is a list of all the currently employed academic staff), Location, Discipline and Sub Discipline.
Discipline is a straight list of all the different disciplines with a autonumber ID. My problem comes with the sub discipline table.
1. I am not sure if it should even be a separate table, or if it should be a column in Discipline as not every discipline has sub disciplines.
2. It is currently set up as three columns ID,SD_Surg and SD_Med.
What I am trying to do in my form -
When the admin staff selects a discipline from the first combo box I want this result to
1. See if the Sub Discipline box needs to be populated
2. if the discipline is Medicine or Surgery I want it to display to appropriate sub disciplines in the 2nd drop down box which are currently 2 different columns with blanks in various places.
I have been reading about drop down cascade boxes etc for three days, and nothing seems to work properly. The rest of the form works its just this one sticking point.
Am hoping someone can help.
Thanks
Zelda
