Microsoft Access Relational Combo Box
Using a Combo Box to Select a Customer from Another Table
Q: I have a form that tracks service calls for my
customers. How can I pick the customer from a list instead of having to
type in the customer ID each time I make a new service call entry?
A: For this, you would use a
Combo Box or List Box that is based on your Customer table and bound to
the CustomerID field in your service call table (form). This will allow
you to pick a customer from your customer table and store that ID in
your service call form.
Here's a screen shot from one of my tutorials:
Fortunately, there is a Combo Box Wizard that will walk you
through most of the process, however this is much easier to SHOW you than to explain here, so watch
the following free mini tutorial for step-by-step instructions. This
topic is fundamental to building good relational databases in
Access, so I spend a lot of time in my full classes to it.
Here is a FREE VIDEO TUTORIAL
that will walk you through this topic in detail:
I teach the concepts in this free mini tutorial in my
Access 201 course. These are
full courses - over 60 minutes in length each. I spend a lot more time going
over how to do this, in addition to lots more tips and tricks.
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