My task is to allocate Tasks to People for any/every day of a single week. There are up to 100 different tasks and about 1000 people to choose from but a typical allocation would involve perhaps 200 people. I have successfully used a form that presents a persons Name at the top of the form, and shows, for each Day: whether they are available, a combo box to select Tasks from a predefined list and a Time when they should start the Task. A report easily prints this by Name, without any transposition, and it is great for each person to see Task they have to do on which day and the time they should turn up.
However, when it comes to supervision on each day, the manager wants to see a layout with column headings Task, Time1, Day1, Time2, Day2, . . . Time7,Day7 with a list of Tasks with assiciated Names for each of the days. One of the threads presents a solution that uses Dlookup to fetch the data but I believe that worked because the size of the data was determinate.
A solution to this would be welcome as I have had to create a cludge using a subform/table to store the data as Task, Day1Name, Day1Time etc, using some VB routines, but the user has to take great care, for instance when a person is allocated a different task, the user has first to select a different line on this second table. It is even worse when the allotted task has to change or is deleted. The info is bound to be inconsistent.
To sum up, there are only 7 days, not a perpetual calendar, but tasks and people are many and varied.