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    Industry Regulations Document Database

    First of all, Hello.



    I'm here looking for some assistance with a little project that I'm working on. So here we go:

    I work in the aviation industry, and as you know, the aviation industry is very regulated. One of the requirements is to have a "List of Effective Pages (LEP)" towards the beginning of the document which is a list of every page in the document and the revision level and date for that page - this is a requirement of our regulatory oversight/flight safety so it's not optional. This LEP is one hell of a task when you have over 80 manuals and every single one has about 100 pages which almost weekly a couple dozens of them change and have a new revision date.

    I am looking for an easier solution in Access, if it's possible, and some assistance due to the fact that I've never worked in Access before.

    Now, I'm working with a self made LEP in Excell, which is limited by it's nature and hard to work with. I would really like to have an entire database of pages in which I can modify a page, and all the various LEPs would auto-process the new date/revision/deletion/renaming so the new LEP can be printed easily.

    For example:

    XX airport is in 30 of the 80 manuals. As I modify XX page 1 date in the database, all the correspondent manuals have the LEP updated with the new page.

    The LEP is structured like this:
    1. Name column; 2.Page Number column; 3.Date/revision column.


    Thank you and best regards,

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    Suppose could keep the LEP in an Access db - this is data. But trying to use Access to produce 100 page documents could be very difficult. Access is not a word processor.

    An Access report design is limited to 22 inches in width and length.

    Basically each page would be a single report. Then code could possibly manage printing the reports in whatever sequence you want.
    How to attach file: http://www.accessforums.net/showthread.php?t=70301 To provide db: copy, remove confidential data, run compact & repair, zip w/Windows Compression.

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    intoxiktu is offline Novice
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    Ideea is that access would only supply the reports (LEP) not the whole manual. It would print a report that has only those 3 columns with name/page/date, and i think it can print in 22inches a 100 line report...

    Clarification. The database contains only these 3 things. Name/page/date. Not the whole page. - List of effective pages - List of pages.

    Example:
    GMAD AGADIR,MOR.10-9/10-9A 20-Jul-12
    GMAD AGADIR,MOR.11-1/11-2 10-Dec-10
    GMAD AGADIR,MOR.13-1/13-2 11-Apr-08
    HEAX ALEXANDRIA,EGYPT10-9/BLK 7-Jan-11
    HEAX ALEXANDRIA,EGYPT12-1/12-2 8-Mar-13

    And when acces supplies me with a report - reports only this. If a manual contains only HEAX, it would print me with a report of only HEAX (by name):
    HEAX ALEXANDRIA,EGYPT10-9/BLK 7-Jan-11
    HEAX ALEXANDRIA,EGYPT12-1/12-2 8-Mar-13

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    So, sounds like a one-table db. The table could easily be in Excel but Access does have the better tools for filtering and report design.
    How to attach file: http://www.accessforums.net/showthread.php?t=70301 To provide db: copy, remove confidential data, run compact & repair, zip w/Windows Compression.

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    This is what I thought.

    Any pointers on how can I achieve this? Some guidance would be much appreciated.

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    So far, what you describe is basic Access functionality. Get an introductory book on Access that will teach you the basics. Or on-line tutorials. Here is one: http://www.rogersaccesslibrary.com/
    How to attach file: http://www.accessforums.net/showthread.php?t=70301 To provide db: copy, remove confidential data, run compact & repair, zip w/Windows Compression.

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