{"id":1062,"date":"2008-10-08T16:40:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T16:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2008-10-08T16:40:30","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T16:40:30","slug":"ms-access-advice-on-lookup-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1062","title":{"rendered":"MS Access Advice on Lookup Fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIn Microsoft Access, It is a good practise not to use &quot;Lookup&quot; column at Table Level. Lookup feature is best used with Forms.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis would avoid problems such as unable to call the right field from a lookup column, as it usually returns the primary ID key. It would appear that there is no script that can call Table.Column(2), etc. in Access. But Form.Column(2) is doable.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf damage is done, it is best to convert the table's &quot;lookup&quot; fields back to text or other &quot;normal&quot; fields. Using nested Replace() functions in Update Query should be the last resort.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis comes from my experience creating NYGC Student Database System.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Microsoft Access, It is a good practise not to use &quot;Lookup&quot; column at Table Level. Lookup feature is best used with Forms. This would avoid problems such as unable to call the right field from a lookup column, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1062\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}