Firstly, create a new table - tblPhotoRecord as follows:

lngPhotoRecordID        autonumber
RecordID                number (long)
PhotoID         number (long)

Now open relationships and establish one to many relationships (enforce
referenetial integrity) between the Records table and tblPhotoRecord. Third
do the same between the photo table and tblPhotoRecord.

Finally, create sub-forms, based on tblPhotoRecord, in the forms you use to
enter individual record and photo data.

Guy Harley

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of G.W. Olds
Sent: Monday, 13 February 2006 11:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ms_access] Linking...It's killing me

I never felt more like a sack of rocks...struggle as I might, I just
don't get it.
Many will no doubt look at this and think "how elementary"...

I have a table of 3,400+ first names and last names (plus a lot of
other extraneous stuff...addresses, birth dates, etc) (it's a
genealogy database).  Each name has a unique Record #.

I have another table of several hundred photos (fields include
unique photo# for every photo, plus date, place taken).

Finally, I have a third table with photo format (paper, negative,
digital...or any combination).

How do I link the Record # (and names); with the photo # (and date,
and place); and the photo format(s) together?

My goal is to type a Photo # (which would record where/when), a
Record # (which would record who), and check any of three format
blocks (which would record how) to update my file.

Note: A photo may have several Record #s (names) included in the
photo.  Or, it may have no Record #s (names) included in the
photo...which means I would have to add that information.  Also, a
Record # may be in several photos.

On the surface this looked doable.  The deeper I got the less doable
it seemed.

ANY help would be MOST appreciated.
Thanks
Gary 



 
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