[mso] Re: Access again--automated entry of date thank you notes were sent
- From: "Katherine Driskell Felts" <subscriptions@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 15:01:08 -0500
You rock! Ugly bad form no longer corrupting things. You'd think that
as I was tooling around looking for what would do it tools--startup
would have jumped out. Oh well. Thanks!
By the way, I had changed the name of the the bad form to frmbadmain,
then realized that that was a HUGE mistake. I got scared it would
never open again.
Now on my list--make my own darn forms and put together some rockin
reports to knock my board members socks off. Also important and still
needing a white horse: help me fix my autonumber problem so that when I
get new donors I don't have to guess at an unused primary key number.
BTW today's thank you note was similarly easy--all lined up for me
already!
Folks pay thousands of dollars for off the shelf fundraising programs.
(and they spend lots of time figuring out how to use them too!) We
can't afford that, but we also can't afford not to treat our donors
well. Thanks so much those of you who have encouraged on and off list.
Kathie
Katherine Driskell Felts,
Executive Director
Blooming Prairie Center
Deep Roots, Bright Futures, Unlimited Horizons
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From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Cathy.Evans@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 2:36 PM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Re: Access again--automated entry of date thank you notes
were sent
That is fabulous! I've been rejoicing right along with your
inspirational
victories! Try Tools/Startup and change or remove the Display/Form Page
form that is selected to get rid of the offending form. If nothing is
selected, there may be an autoexec macro opening the form, if that's the
case, remove or revise the row with the open form.
"Katherine Driskell
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Access again--automated entry of date thank you notes
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08/06/2004 02:19 PM
Please respond to mso
.....
Woo Hoo! My LYBUNTS SYBUNTS TotalGiving By Donor, and YTD Giving by
donor queries are going great guns!! I didn't really think I'd get it
done today! YAY helpful Microsoft application capable people! James, I
didn't end up using the datepart function but instead I did
Year(Date())-1 and it worked for figuring out what year was last year!
Now my last question. I've screwed up the entry form that is the thing
that opens when the database opens. How do I turn that off--it is so
messed up that it enters the wrong thing in places and forgets people's
names--BAD VERY BAD!
Kathie
Katherine Driskell Felts,
Executive Director
Blooming Prairie Center
Deep Roots, Bright Futures, Unlimited Horizons
-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Jim Pettit
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 11:49 AM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Re: Access again--automated entry of date thank you notes
were sent
Katherine--
Oh, flattery will get you everywhere...
*IF* you were using SQL Server, you could create what's called a
Trigger,
which is a procedure that runs automatically and transparently when
changes
are made to a database table; this trigger would fill the donations
table
with the date a particular 'Thank You' note was sent.
However...you're using Access, so we have to do something different,
don't
we?
I'm not sure how you're calling the query you spoke of (the one which
produced the info you needed to send the thank you notes). But here are
your
options, as I see them:
1) If you're calling your query via a saved macro
a) Create a date field in the donations table.
b) Create an update query that will place the current date
in
that
date field.
c) Add a line to the macro to run the query created in step
'b'
above.
d)
2) If you're calling your query from a form with underlying VBA code:
a) Create a date field in the donations table.
b) Create an update query that will place the current date
in
that
date field.
c) Add a line to the code to run the query created in step
'b'
above.
In either case, you can pop up a dialog box asking the user if they wish
to
have the update query run when everything else runs.
There. Have I helped, or further complicated things for you? ;-)
--Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf
Of Katherine Driskell Felts
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 8:18 AM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Access again--automated entry of date thank you notes
were
sent
Hey guys, I got a query to accurately produce the information I needed
to send thank you notes to donors. Woo Hoo! Two months of off and on
work pays off! Here's my question now for the best and the brightest of
those who face Redmond when they pay homage to the gods of capitalism:
Is there a way to tell access to automatically keep track of the fact
that the thank you note was finally sent on August 2? What would be
really great is if that would go in my donations table right next to the
date received and amount, and THEN the next time I go running a query,
if it would remember that the last set of thank you notes went out on
August 2, so it would automatically know to grab records with dates
between August 2 and the next time I run thank you notes (that date).
Now, it can't just notate that the query was run, cuz I might run it to
get information for a board member, it has to ask me if it should notate
it.
I can see why programmers like their jobs-its cool when it finally
works!
Kathie
Katherine Driskell Felts,
Executive Director
Blooming Prairie Center
Deep Roots, Bright Futures, Unlimited Horizons
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