I have a many to many relationship, With many projects and many partners, each partner can work on many projects, each project can have many partners.
The problem I have is that I need to create a subform in the projects form to enter the partners.
I need to create a combo box that allow me to...
i can do that but then I am entering a new partner name in each time.
For each project I want to be able to select a multiple number of partners from drop downlists.
The only way I have found of doing this is by making the partners ID and Project ID fields in the link table a combo box of...
What you are saying makes alot of sense
How do I make the combo table look up the partner name though
If i just called partner name a combo list then there are no names there to select from
any ideas??
I have tried to do that but it seems to set things up as a one to many relationship and not a many to many. As when I enter a partner name it enters a new one everytime.
So i dont so much need to input the partners ( i can do this elsewhere, rather I jsut need to link them to that particular...
Basically how do I make a form that lets me assign a partner to a project? Given that there will be a variable number of partners per project.
I can input the partners names in a seperate form.
This shouldn't be as complicated as all this should it??
thanks for the reply.
How exactly would I do the forms? I am still don't see how the many to many relationship works.
How does the link table get populated?
Sorry for all the questions.
Richard
I am in desperate need of a reality check on a database I am trying to set up.
My company bids for many projects.
On each bid we have many partners.
But each partner can be on many other bids.
( there is much more information that I want to store, such as varying number of contacts for each...
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