In a gradebook database, every new semester, several classes will have
identical groups of activities (i.e. "Participation," "Essays," "Exams,
etc.) They will also have the same weights as in other semesters. So when
creating a new class (or course) I have a form with two combo boxes: one
that selects [courses].[courseCode] to copy from and another that selects
[courses].[courseCode] for a newer course to copy to. Now I want to copy
[groups].[groupWeight] and [groups].[groupDescription] from the older course
and add [groups].[courseCode] from the new course and append all these
groups into the new course.
Example:
courseCode: 12345
Participation 25
Essays 50
Exams 25
might be appended to same table as
courseCode: 23456
Participation 25
Essays 50
Exams 25
where 23456 is the courseCode of the new course and 12345 is the course I'm
copying from.
Do I first need to assemble the data into a temporary table then append the
temp table data back into the groups table? Or can I do it directly with a
query?