[mso] Re: Logical properties in Access (am using 2000 and 200 3)
- From: "Dian D. Chapman" <dian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 19:45:30 -0600
Well...to be honest with you, like I said earlier...I'm not sure if you CAN
change the input mask of what info you get.
I know Access well...but not really well from the front door...the user
interface. I enter Access through the backdoor most of the time...via code.
And with code, you can force feed Access most anything you want. There MAY
be a way to do it via the GUI, but I don't know how.
Boolean actually has three states...
Null = no entry
Positive = yes/true/-1
Negative = no/false/0
And if you CAN do it, you'll have to associate one with positive and one
with negative...i.e., M = true, F = False????
To me, that doesn't make much sense, so I wouldn't go that way. I'd just use
a 1 char list with only M/F as possible answers. Much easier to wrap my
brain around and do. And why make it harder if you don't have to????
Dian D. Chapman
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-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Graham Jones
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 9:22 AM
To: 'mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [mso] Re: Logical properties in Access (am using 2000 and 200 3)
Hi Diane
As you may have seen in my earlier reply to Cathy, I'm not too hot on
Boolean matters, so a little request for clarification from an "oracle"!
Does what you say mean that there really is no way of replacing the two
options available, even say "Y" instead of "Yes" in the visualisation of the
selection made?
If that is true, why are Yes/No, On/Off and True/False acceptable and not
1/0? ..... although I think I have seen that it is actually -1/0?
Hope someone is not going to say that I've gone off topic and will at least
please send me a link to read it up!
Many thanks
Graham
-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Dian D. Chapman
Sent: 02 December 2005 12:10
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Re: Logical properties in Access (am using 2000 and 200 3)
Yes/No is a Boolean field so it can only be on/off...yes/no. So it'll always
be No until you flip it to yes.
Rather, create a text field that is 1 character long and set to a Lookup.
Enter your own values of M and F.
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