My wife is school secretary who inherited the job of tracking about
100 keys to about 150 school employees for thee next school year.
Their current system, comprised of 2 non connected spreadsheets, is a
totally useless inaccurate mess.
I thought I might be able to help out by making a simple access
database, but think I bit off just a little more than I can handle.
My idea was to create 2 tables:
TbleKeyInfo
KeyMarking Text field (Primary key) ' contains
markings found on keys
OnHand Number field Quantity on hand
Out Number field Quantity lent out
TblEmployees
FullName Text field (Primary key) 'contains
full name, including 1 digit suffix when required
KeyMarking Text
field ' contains
markings found on keys
The problem is that some employees can have as many as 25 different
keys and some keys can be lent out to almost 100 employees. This sort
of makes it many to many relationship. Maybe I need 3 tables?
I'm hoping to create a select query, which can be used to create a
form with a subform on which I can edit the data and also create new
records as required.
I know that this is a lot of help to ask for, but maybe someone can
help?
Thanks
Dee