school library sign in

[Ola Media]

I want to automate the sign-in process when students visit the school
library. What I would like to see is:

1. Student types in his student id number

2. His ID number, name, the date and time are saved to a file from which a
daily and/or weekly report of all students that signed in can be run.

3. In a wonderul world, it would also tag him "in" and as he left the
library, he would type in his ID again and it would tag him "out" with the
time.

I have an existing Access file that contains the students' ID numbers and
names

Is Access the way to go? How do I do it?

 

[Klatuu]

Your one table is not sufficient for this task. You do need a table with
student demographic data, but you also need a table that shows the date/time
in and date/time out. Here is an example of how the tables should be
structured:

tblStudent
StudentID - The student number (Primary Key)
StudentFirstName
StudentLastName
(and any other information you need regarding the student)

tblVisit
VisitID - Autonumber
StudentID - Foreign Key to tblStudent to identify the student making the visit
VisitTimeIn - Date/Time student arrived
VisitTimeOut - Date/Time student departed

You need a form for the student to enter his ID. When the ID is entered,
his name is displayed for confirmation. When the student confirms his
identiy, a new Visit record should be created with the current date/time in
the VisitTimeIn field.

On departure, when the student enters his ID, you need to retrieve the most
recent visit record, get confirmation, and time stamp the departure in the
record.

But, that is just the basic concept. It is really too involved to cover
completely here.

 

[Fred Boer]

Dear Ola:

I have a demo that illustrates how to do this...

http://www3.sympatico.ca/lornarourke/fred5.html

HTH

 

[John... Visio MVP]

Hi Ola,

Yes, Access is perfect for what you want!

I provide help with Access applications for a minimal fee. I could build
your Library SignIn application for you for a very reasonable fee. If you
want my help, contact me.

Steve
(e-mail address removed)

These newsgroups are provided by Microsoft for FREE peer to peer support.
There are many highly qualified individuals who gladly help for free. Stevie
is not one of them, but he is the only one who just does not get the idea of
"FREE" support. He offers questionable results at unreasonable prices. If he
was any good, the "thousands" of people he claims to have helped would be
flooding him with work, but there appears to be a continuous drought and he
needs to constantly grovel for work.

A few gems gleaned from the Word New User newsgroup over the Christmas
holidays to show Stevie's "expertise" in Word.


Dec 17, 2008 7:47 pm

Word 2007 ..........
In older versions of Word you could highlght some text then go to Format -
Change Case and change the case of the hoghloghted text. Is this still
available in Word 2007? Where?
Thanks! Steve


Dec 22, 2008 8:22 pm

I am designing a series of paystubs for a client. I start in landscape and
draw a table then add columns and rows to setup labels and their
corresponding value. This all works fine. After a landscape version is
completed, I next need to design a portrait version. Rather than strating
from scratch, I'd like to be able to cut and paste from the landscape
version and design the portrait version.
Steve


Dec 24, 2008, 1:12 PM

How do you protect the document for filling in forms?
Steve


One of my favourites:
Dec 30, 2008 8:07 PM - a reply to stevie
(The original poster asked how to sort a list and stevie offered to create
the OP an Access database)

Yes, you are right but a database is the correct tool to use not a
spreadsheet.

Not at all. If it's just a simple list then a spreadsheet is perfectly
adequate...



John... Visio MVP

 

[Gina Whipp]

Ola,

Yes Access will do what you want and there are ALOT of qualified volunteers
here in this newsgroup that will help you for FREE. (Steve is NOT one of
those, he thinks he should be paid.) Please hang on for one of them... To
get you started I have provided some links...

http://www.databasedev.co.uk/data_models.html

Jeff Conrad's resources page:
http://www.accessmvp.com/JConrad/accessjunkie/resources.html

The Access Web resources page:
http://www.mvps.org/access/resources/index.html

A free tutorial written by Crystal (MS Access MVP):
http://allenbrowne.com/casu-22.html

MVP Allen Browne's tutorials:
http://allenbrowne.com/links.html#Tutorials

http://www.databasedev.co.uk/table-of-contents.html

--
Gina Whipp

"I feel I have been denied critical, need to know, information!" - Tremors
II

http://www.regina-whipp.com/index_files/TipList.htm

 

[Mark Andrews]

For the next round move to barcodes on the ids and scanning.

If you need any help feel free to call or email me, my wife is a librarian
and I could build your little app
(without the scanning) in my sleep so wouldn't mind helping out for free
(when I'm not working on other client projects).

Contact info on my website if interested.

Mark
RPT Software
http://www.rptsoftware.com