God day all,
I had originally posted this question on the excell forum and was directed to use access to achieve my desired outcome. Since I am completley new to access, I am having all sorts of problems. First of all let me explain what it is I am trying to achieve.
The form is to track the amount of hours worked, early outs, lates and sick days my employees take on a daily basis, sounds easy but for a newb it is not so easy, especially since I have a specific format for the form in mind and it is this.
At the top is the date, this can be changed to any date and the data displayed would reflect who worked what on this particular day.
Underneath this would be 20 drop down lists which are all the available work spots to fill although not all are filled each day.
The drop down lists are of all the employees we have and this list is pulled from another table containing personal information such as address, employee ID etc.
next to each drop down list on the right and moving to the right side of the form are input boxes for, Hours worked, Early Outs, Lates, sick and overtime.
Now this is what I can't seem to work out, how do I make the input boxes on line 1 place the inputted data into a table for the selected employee on that line and for the particular date showing, and the same for the employees data that has been selected on line 2. The table would need to have every day of the year as a redord and the fields would be Hours worked, Overtime etc. If that is the case then how do specific employees get this information? Do I need to create a table for each employee?
I apologise for my stupid questions now, I started using Access yesterday and don't know too much yet.
I had originally posted this question on the excell forum and was directed to use access to achieve my desired outcome. Since I am completley new to access, I am having all sorts of problems. First of all let me explain what it is I am trying to achieve.
The form is to track the amount of hours worked, early outs, lates and sick days my employees take on a daily basis, sounds easy but for a newb it is not so easy, especially since I have a specific format for the form in mind and it is this.
At the top is the date, this can be changed to any date and the data displayed would reflect who worked what on this particular day.
Underneath this would be 20 drop down lists which are all the available work spots to fill although not all are filled each day.
The drop down lists are of all the employees we have and this list is pulled from another table containing personal information such as address, employee ID etc.
next to each drop down list on the right and moving to the right side of the form are input boxes for, Hours worked, Early Outs, Lates, sick and overtime.
Now this is what I can't seem to work out, how do I make the input boxes on line 1 place the inputted data into a table for the selected employee on that line and for the particular date showing, and the same for the employees data that has been selected on line 2. The table would need to have every day of the year as a redord and the fields would be Hours worked, Overtime etc. If that is the case then how do specific employees get this information? Do I need to create a table for each employee?
I apologise for my stupid questions now, I started using Access yesterday and don't know too much yet.