Good afternoon all,
I am fairly new to access and am having trouble with this database design.
Basically I am creating a report management system for a security department. Currently I have one table that I call a face sheet. This information allows me to put information about a crime and also a suspects information. I have created command buttons that allow me to print off the record when it's been completed. This record goes into a paper file.
The problem I am having is sometimes I have multiple suspects. I don't have room to put more than one suspect on the form, in regards to being able to keep everything on one page when printing. Is there a way to associate a new table that can be opened to enter additional suspects, but keep that table associated only with the particular primary key assiged to one record? So if I have a record which uses a case number as a primary key, and I have multiple suspects for that case number, I only want those suspects to be associated with the records primary key. I am not concerned about the additional suspects printing out on the original face sheet, but I just want to make sure they are associated with the case number.
I hope that makes sense. Also, how do I make the database searchable or create a search so that I can search it by any field contained in the database?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.