New Textbox control won't accept input

[sprtrmp]

Alrighty, here is a "better" description of what I am working on.

what I am actually tracking are "overtime periods" or what we refer to as AFTPs. not every AFTP is going to have a flight attached to it. my thinking was that it is better to break those into separate tables, since there won't be a "flight" every time some does and AFTP. Similarly, there is a separate table for "LeaveTaken" that tracks when someone would need to take leave to do an "overtime period" (long story, its a government thing *rolls eyes*). Also, not every overtime period is going to have a remark attached to it, so again, my thinking was to break those not-necessarily-recurring things into separate tables to avoid a decent degree of "blank space" on the main table.

the reason I have referential integrity enforced is to take advantage of cascading deletes/updates: if an AFTP is deleted from the main table or updated, I would want any information regarding flights/leave/remarks to go with it.

Is this the best way to go? (obviously no, huh?)

and, in the case where an overtime period is input where there IS a flight related to it, what is the best way to handle creating a new record?

[sprtrmp]

Oops - sorry sprtrmp - I posted this before I saw your post above. It's a bit repetitious I guess, but does explain what is happening (I hope). Working with relationships can drive you nuts sometimes. (outside of Access, too - but that's another story )

ZIIIING!!

...I am not very good at either, apparently

[pbaldy]

(are you just messing with me?)

I wouldn't mess with you. Okay, I would, but I wasn't.

Sounds like you and John are getting it all sorted though?

[sprtrmp]

Yes, John G pretty much got me squared away. turns out it was all due to rookie mistakes and silliness. I went back and took a look at the tables and combined two of them, the restructured the relationships as one-to-one after spending a little time reading up on the different types of relationships. things are working much better now.

thanks for the help