Storing Questionnaire Configurations
May 22, 2007
I'm building a questionnaire/survey database for my work. Everything seems pretty straightforward, but I'm a little unsure about how to store the survey configurations.
I'm assuming that the survey will change sometime between now and the end of time so I'm tracking survey configurations (which questions and in what order). Right now my "Configuration" table has two fields: ConfigID (Autonumber), Questions (Memo). The 'Questions' field is a space seperated list of question IDs. The other way I could've done it is to use three fields: ConfigID (Long), OrderNum (Int), QuestionID (Long).
I figure the first way is more memory efficient in the long run and it will take much less time to add a new configuration.
The way I'm doing things now works for me, but I'd like to know if anyone thinks I'm setting myself up for trouble down the road or if my way is actually less memory efficient (I'm not as concerned with processing time).
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Oct 27, 2005
I have a one to many to many relationship; with the "Cascade update related fields", and "Cascade update related records" on the relationship properties checked.
Since I have split the DB to FE and BE, the relationship properties (for the 3 tables on the FE) is grayed out and cannot be changed.
In addition, the "Cascade update related fields", and "Cascade update related records" on the relationship properties is unchecked.
(The relationship properties on the BE is still configured to Cascade update.
Any solution?
Thank you
Joe
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Jun 21, 2006
Hi,
I have the task of creating a new questionaire and associated reporting. Normally I would have done this in Excel, but due to the size I feel it is neccessary to create this in Access.
My question is should I revise my table of completed forms? I initially planned to create a form to populate the completed forms table. Job done?
However I am sure I have read somewhere this is not the best in terms of reporting and I should have a table of answers for each question? Is this correct I have approx 50 questions?
I have the following tables:
1) Staff Details
2) Table Of Questions
3) Table Of Answers (Questions are multiple choice)
4) Table of completed forms
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Jan 4, 2005
Hi
Wondering if anyone can suggest how I might be able to deal with a questionnaire. I thought about doing a straightforward database with all the questions listed as fields in the one table but I think there are too many questions/fields (about 200, definitely not 254 but still raises an error message of "Too Many Fields Defined). The questionnaire will be an on-going process, with users re-submitting their answers every quarter. I do want to be able to analyze the data and create reports, etc. so am hesitant about using Excel. For instance, I did a basic report involving Excel and then adding many columns to calculate various averages - the report was made in Word and I mail-merged in the data from the spreadsheet. Long-winded for just one report and I'm hoping to avoid this.
Any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks and regards.
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Jun 26, 2007
Hi
I have designed a small questionnaire and i want to use Ms Access for data entry and storage.
Here is the brief description.
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A.Heading
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1.Person id
2.date of birth
3.age
4.sex
5.school
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B.Sports Information about individual
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1.do you play any spot ------yes/no
2.what spot do you play -----1.football 2.tennis 3.other
3.is your father still alive-----yes /no
4.what spot does he play------1.football 2.tennis 3.other
5.at what age did you start school
6.what is your political affiliation 1.liberal 2.centre . other
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C.For official use only
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1.Date of interview-------
2.How enthusiastic was the respondent----1.very 2.Average 3. Below average
How can i go about designing a relational database for the above questionnaire.
I need advice on the relational schema
thanks
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Mar 3, 2006
To start: Running Office 20003. I have created a survey with Frontpages wizard. Basically It has a topic and the end user rates that topic on a scale of one to five like so:
1. Work Environment
a. I enjoy my work place. 12345
b. I think my office has a good reputation. 12345
1-5 are radial buttons. It takes the users input and stores it in an access database as im sure you all are aware. Looks kinda like this:
1a 1b 2a etc.
3 5 1
What i would like to do is this: When the users are done submitting i would like to go back and take results. I.e. we had this many users select option 3 for question 1a and we had _ number of users select option 2 for 1a, etc.
The thing is i was wondering if there was a way to create a query for it. I know i could just put =1 or =2 but that would require running 5 queries on each question.... not fun. Anyway, any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Viko
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May 8, 2005
I am doing my comptuer science coursework and one thing I need to include is "how does access stored files" and the basic description of file organisation. After some googlging around though I have found nothing, can anyone hlep me out on this?
Thanks
Chris
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Jul 27, 2005
Hello,
I am designing a query as i have been advised in the following Quote:
Doc ManNow, you write a couple of queries. As a parameter to the queries, choose a date that will be your archiving cutoff or split point. Usually the last day of some month or quarter. Doesn't matter as long as you are consistent about it. The technical cutoff will be, in effect, 23:59:59 of the chosen date. The first record to be KEPT will be 00:00:00 of the next day in sequence.
Query #1 - Compute stock on hand as of your cutoff date. Create a single stock-on-hand transaction with the cutoff date. Put it in a temporary table until you need it. This will be a two-layer query. I.e. a query of a query.
Query #1A - a summation query grouped by item number for all transactions earlier than the archiving date so you can get the "inventory of X at archiving date"
Query #1B - an append query that draws from the summation query and feeds it to the temp table. The stock-on-hand record will have the archiving date
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I am able to get "inventory of X at archiving date" and append the results to a temporary table but I can't see how to append the "archiving Date" data itself to the same table as the "Archiving date" is entered via parameter prompt? Any ideas?
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Nov 4, 2005
Hi guys how do you store secure passwords in the database?
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Mar 10, 2006
Howdy
I know that you shouldn't store totals in Access, but I can't think of a way around what I want to achieve and wondered if anyone had any ideas.
An item on stock will move from one location to another, I will need to list the 'balances' of this stock at each location, easy enough to do, but there are hundreds of item movements per day and the users do not want a history of movements to be kept but do require an ongoing balance.
e.g.
100 of the item moves from A to B, this movement record gets deleted, how would I know that the item stock at A has been reduced by 100 and B raised by 100?
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Mar 31, 2005
Hi all
I have a database that stores customer records and their associated insurance details. I need to be able to track any changes made to that record within a set time period ie if details are changed fine it is reported next time report is run. But if details are changed more than once in between reports then first detail change is lost.
I would like to work out a way that changes can be written to a ??seperate version of the table?? and stored in there to be reported seperately and not just the final change as is the snapshot nature of a report? Is this possible? Could I possible make another version of the main table appended onto it? I feel I 'know' what I need to do but not how to even begin it! Any help would be appreciated.
DDiver
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Jun 7, 2005
Hi everyone,
I've recently begun building a database to keep track of stock at work. Nothing particularly special or difficult. I have a little bit of prior experience with Access and VB, but not heaps.
Basically, I've created a tables for parts, companies etc, and am relating all the data together.
At the moment I've made a form that allows you to enter a new part, with Part Number, Description, Category, Supplier, etc.
The complication comes when I want to create an ASSEMBLY of parts. I'd like to create an assembly (which has a lot of similarities to a part, in that it has a part number, description etc), and that assembly needs to store a list of parts that it includes. A simple assembly might include a few items, ie, a bowl of meatballs includes the bowl, a fork, the spaghetti, and 5 meatballs. A more complex assembly (a complete dinner for 5) might include 5 bowls of meatballs (a sub assembly), pepper and salt, 5 glasses and two bottles of coke.
I'm not sure how to best store this assembly data...
I can't really have a table with a finite number of "part" spots because the assemblies get quite large. I'd rather not use an ugly VB macro that stores the PartID's with quantities either, as that could get thoroughly out of hand pretty quickly.
I'm sure there must be a simple method for doing this, but without having a clue as to what it might be called I can't really look for it in help!
Any clues you guys could give me would be great.
Thanks
Col.
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Jun 24, 2005
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these files then get inserted the scanned object subform (containing the fields scan number, object, and order id).
I'm realizing that because we'll be scanning quite a few orders that this may take up quite a bit of space, i'm wondering if linking the objects rather than saving them within the database will help.
the only problem with this is that if we move the files containing the actual scanned images, that the whole system will get screwed up.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks in advance
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Nov 21, 2004
How do I create a table relationship where a secondary reltated table stores past dates, status code and customer ID. For example: I want to keep track of the past dates that an order was revised and why it was revised. So, if I have a customer who was due for installation on 10/21/04 and status is PEND for pending. THen on 10/18/94 I change the date of PEND to 10/25/04. I want to keep track of the times it changed and the reason why. HOw can I make the program automatically create a record in the revision table storing the past code, reason and date using customer ID as key and teh revision table would allow multiple records for each customer ID. DId I make sense?
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Dear Access Expert.
I have a choice of either calculating a field or storing it.
Specifically, I have two pieces of data ... departure time and arrival time which I have taken from another source. This other source also has the difference between these times. Currently, I am not storing the difference in a field as I have opted to calculate it in my database.
However, I am thinking that maybe it would be better to store it vs. calculating it because I have 35, 000 records and storage space is not going to be an issue.
What do you suggest if I my main concern is speed and effeciency?
Thank you very much.
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Feb 11, 2008
Hi,
Firstly this is my first post so please forgive me if i do not conform to the usual way of asking a question!
I have an access database set up and it is working well, so far!
What I wish to do is the following, I am creating this for a cycling club to store race results...
I wish to store the time that they completed the stage in, how do i do this using the date/time field option when all it wants to do is store a complete time.
for example i wish to store 1 hour 12 minutes 15 seconds in the table as 1:12:15 for stage 1.
Plus they may have received a penalty, so in another field I would like to say store a 10 second penalty...
anyway you get the idea.... please could somebody inform me on the best way to do this, it has to be stored as a time so I can add all the stages up later and create a report!
Thanks in advance...
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Mar 13, 2006
Hi
I have a database which picks up information from my accounts package. It has the following fields
ID,Name,Date,Ref1&Ref2
I need to extract the last ID number and store it in a table or somewhere and then extract the above information after that number into a csv file in the order above. It is used for my invoices and therefore when I do an import from my accounts package it updates all the transactions.
An example would be I say put 5 invoices on with a ID nr's of 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 and output to a csv file. When I run the query/macro? it looks at the table with the last ID nr and starts from 6 and so on
I just need the ones I have done today. It has to be the ID number as each invoice is put on it gives it a sequential number, the dates could be different for each invoice.
I hope I've explained myself:)
Thanks in advance
Cheesey
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Jan 3, 2006
if i have formula in a text box can that calculation be stored in a table???
example
sales total
sales tax
grand total
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if the control is bounded to a field in a table once the formula is entered doesnt it loose the connection with the field???
right now when i enter a formula in a control it will no longer store it in the table but it will only show the result in the actual form..???
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Nov 5, 2004
Hi all, another beginner question here.
I have a table of records which is is basically temp storage, once I'm done inputing information, an append SQL statement is run to move the data to its permament table, then I use a delete statement to remove the values in the temp table.
Now, I have a column called Result, which stores the values of a radio button group (1, 2, or 3). I have a series of queries which count the number of times 1 or 2 appear (3 in this case, doesn't matter since it represents N/A. 1 = True, 2 = False, 0 = Null).
I'm having trouble getting the result of said query to store in a table. The statement is as follows:
SELECT [qryGetFail]![CountFail]+[qryGetPass]![CountPass] AS Total
FROM qryGetFail, qryGetPass;
This returns the sum of both counts, so I know how many questions were answered either Pass or Fail, hence I know how to score record. Here is my Append SQL statement as it currently works:
INSERT INTO tblAuditResults ( Question, Result, Comment, ACAPS, AuditDate, TeamMember, Auditor )
SELECT tblQuestions.Question, tblQuestions.Result, tblQuestions.Comment, [Forms]![frmAuditCreate]![txtACAPS] AS Expr1, [Forms]![frmAuditCreate]![txtAuditDate] AS Expr2, [Forms]![frmAuditCreate]![cmbTeamMember] AS Expr3, [Forms]![frmAuditCreate]![txtAuditor] AS Expr4
FROM tblQuestions
WHERE (((tblQuestions.Product)="4" Or (tblQuestions.Product)=[Forms]![frmAuditSelect]![txtVarProduct]) AND ((tblQuestions.Function)="3" Or (tblQuestions.Function)=[Forms]![frmAuditSelect]![txtVarFunction]));
This stores everything I need it to. But I cannot for the life of me get the statement to accept a value from a qeury and store it. I have tried adding another expression but it always just prompts for the value instead of pulling the value from the qryGetCalc.
Is there a specific way to have an INSERT statement pull a value off an active query?
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Aug 24, 2005
This deals with tables/forms/VBA code.
I have a table (tblData) that stores all information for a couple hundred records.
I have a method that copy/pastes all this information to a webbrowser based on the URL TitleBar. If the titlebar changes I need a way to update what to look for so it can paste it to the browser with the new titlebar. I don't want to have to update it for every record so I created a seperate table with one record with just an ID and the string for the titlebar. I have a seperate form from the main one that allows the user to update this and store it back into the table. The problem I am having is using the information from that second table (tblTitleBar) and puting it where it needs to be in the VBA code to access the correct browser.
I don't think any type of relationship will work because that just requires me to input the titlebar straight into each record for the first table anyways. I don't see any way of storing a changing variable besides puting it in a table. I was wondering if there was a way to code a call to the second table to retrieve the single record's field, but so far I have had no success.
Any help/words/advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks for reading my problem.
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Jan 30, 2006
I am pretty new to access, I will get right to it.
I am scoring rating scales. I want to be able to enter just the responses from a person, say on 80 questions (preferably into a form), where all the answers are 0 to 3 and have Access add the questions into the right groups to calculate all the sub-scores of the rating scale.
For example, Scale A may consist of Questions 1, 6, 15, 29, 35, and 70
I need access to add those up and save them so I can use them in a report.
I also need access to add the frequency of certain questions that were responded to with the answer 3.
I have gotten Access to calculate the scores in a form by adding extra variables to the form, erasing the variable name out of the white box and putting in the syntax =[Q1]+[Q6]+[Q15], etc. in place of a variable name but it just sits there on the form and doesn't store it anywhere.
Thanks
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