How do I display averages on a form.

[Steve Goodrich]

How do I display averages on a form.

I have a database that I am setting up for a customer survey with 600
records (Access 97)
1 table, Field Names are - Name, Dept, Question 1 Question 2 etc a few
queries (Question 1 Question 2etc)and 1 form.
There will be questions for the user to answer using 5 option groups that
will be set up as follows, Excellent, Good, Average, Poor and Very Poor.
Excellent will be set to 5 Good 4 Average 3 Poor 2 and Very Poor 1.

A query is set up to display all the users that have completed the survey,
fields - name, question 1

What I would like to do is display the average mark for each question on the
form

I enter the following in a text box =avg([question1])
The average is displayed for the Table using all 600 records.( from the
field name "question 1" on my main table I assume)
I want to display the average for the query, which will only use the records
of the users that have completed the survey. What syntax do I type to point
to the question 1 field on my query and not on my table?
Hope this makes sense.
Any help would be appreciated.

Many thanks

Steve

 

[Guest]

Hi Steve,

I'm not quite sure why you would want to have the average answer viewable by the user entering answers, but here's a suggestion on how to go about it.

Build a query to get the averages, then build a subform that displays the results of the query, then add the subform to your main form. Note that the average will take into account any Nulls in the data and the query's datasheet view of the averages will probably have several digits behind the decimal point. On the form, format the textbox to display a whole integer.

Hope this helps