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    ljs1277 is offline Novice
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    Autofill form fields based on another field

    Please forgive me for being a noob. I have been roped into creating a new database for a courier service and this is not really an area of expertise for me.



    This is a pretty basic database in Access 07. Four tables, customers, price_list, employees, and deliveries.

    Customers:
    CompanyID (primary key)
    Company Name
    Address
    Contact

    Employee:
    Employee ID (primary key)
    Name
    Address

    Price list:
    From (Primary key)
    To
    Price

    Deliveries
    DeliveryID
    Bill To (foreign key to companyID)
    Account#
    Date
    Driver (foreign key to employeeID)
    From (foreign key to "from" in price_list)
    To
    Price

    I have set up a basic form to enter data into the deliveries table, but what I would like is to be able to choose the delivery from a drop down box on the "from" field, and automatically fill the to and price rows with the corresponding rows from the price_list table. I hope that makes sense.

    Again, I apologize if this is a stupid question, or if it has been covered before.

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    If the To and Price values wouldn't change, then you shouldn't store them in the Deliveries table. If they do, use a combo box that includes all three fields and in its after update event:

    Me.PriceTextboxName = Me.ComboName.Column(x)

    where x is the appropriate column (zero based).

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    ljs1277 is offline Novice
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    That worked! Thanks a bunch!

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    No problemo, and welcome to the site by the way!

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