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  1. #1
    drvo is offline Novice
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    Subform instead of multivalued lookup

    Hi



    As most of people suggest, multivalued fields introduced in access 2007 should be avoided due to normalisation issues.
    Thus I would like to create subform instead of multivalued field.
    I have tables tblProjects and tblContacts and forms frmProjects and frmContacts. What I want is that on frmProjects I can choose which people (from tblContacts, more than one) worked on project, but without using multivalued fields.

    Any ideas?

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    ssanfu is offline Master of Nothing
    Windows 2K Access 2000
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    Don't know your requirements, but you could start with

    a table ProjEmp

    fields:
    ProjEmp_ID (autonumber) PK
    ProjectID_FK (long) (foreign key to projects table)
    ContactID_FK (long) (foreign key to contacts table)

    In the main form, there would be a sub-form with a combo box to select the employees (contacts).

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