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Diego B

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Since: Mar 05, 2008
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 2:31 pm
Post subject: Looking-up certain records only
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Hello everyone,

I have a very easy solution created to fill out forms more
efficiently: 2 tables (A and B)
some of the fields in Table B are "lookup fields" from Table A, and
this works just fine most of the times.
However, sometime I would like to go to a specific record in Table B
from A avoiding to re-lookup ALL fields.
In other words, there are certain situations in which I would like to
lookup the current (i.e. the most recent) record
but not the previous ones (leaving those records as I modified them).
I tried to find just the record I am interested in (in Table A) and go
to Table B from there, but apparently this does not work.
I am sure there is a way to accomplish this, but I cannot find it,
might you kindly help ?

Thanks a lot in advance,

Diego

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Christoph Kaufmann

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 2:26 am
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Diego B wrote:

> I have a very easy solution created to fill out forms more
> efficiently: 2 tables (A and B)
> some of the fields in Table B are "lookup fields" from Table A, and
> this works just fine most of the times.
> However, sometime I would like to go to a specific record in Table B
> from A avoiding to re-lookup ALL fields.
> In other words, there are certain situations in which I would like to
> lookup the current (i.e. the most recent) record
> but not the previous ones (leaving those records as I modified them).
> I tried to find just the record I am interested in (in Table A) and go
> to Table B from there, but apparently this does not work.

Isolate the record in table b and do a re-lookup.


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Diego B

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 7:44 am
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On Aug 30, 1:26 am, c....TakeThisOut@tele2.ch (Christoph Kaufmann) wrote:
> Diego B wrote:
> > I have a very easy solution created  to fill out forms more
> > efficiently: 2 tables (A and B)
> > some of the fields in Table B are "lookup fields" from Table A, and
> > this works just fine most of the times.
> > However, sometime I would like to go to a specific record in Table B
> > from A avoiding to re-lookup ALL fields.
> > In other words, there are certain situations in which I would like to
> > lookup the current (i.e. the most recent) record
> > but not the previous ones (leaving those records as I modified them).
> > I tried to find just the record I am interested in (in Table A) and go
> > to Table B from there, but apparently this does not work.
>
> Isolate the record in table b and do a re-lookup.

In the facts, very simple and effective solution. Thanks a lot !

Diego
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