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#1: Apr 25 '07
Hi there,

I've got a problem that I'm sure is simple to someone with more experience.

I have three tables: clients, tools and projects. Two of the fields in projects are linked to clients and tools (each project has a client and a tool). I would like one field in the "projects" table to be a combination of some of the info from all three tables.

For example:

client: bob (in the "client" table)
tool: 25 (in the "tools" table)
project#: 72 (in the "projects" table)
I would like one field in the "projects" table to automatically be filled with "bob25-72".

I've seen that I can combine things in a query but the relationships see to fall apart once I try and use this generated number in other tables. is there any way to fill this number directly in a table automatically without getting macros involved?

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#2: Apr 25 '07

re: Combining fields


Can't you just concatenate with &?
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