[AccessD] VBA Unbound data entry / update form

Uhh... Yep.  I do all of my work by the hour.

I am very good at what I do, and I always advise the client 
of the "right way" to do things.  Mostly they just let me do 
it the way I think it should be done,  and occasionally they 
don't.  Usually when they don't there is a reason, which I 
listen to and see if we can "do it right" and still have 
what they really need.  Very occasionally, I just end up 
doing it the way they demand.

I have been trying very hard not to get up in arms about 
this thread but it was just getting out of hand.  I need 
useful ideas, not "that is just bad design".  I am treading 
in an area that I am not fluent in (unbound data entry 
forms) and what I need is not what I am getting (mostly).

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Jennifer Gross wrote:
> One of my mantra's is "I get paid by the hour".  If I explain the pitfalls
> of something they want to do and they still want me to do it, guess what "I
> get paid by the hour".  In two months when they realize it wasn't such a
> good idea, guess what "I get paid by the hour" to change it again.  I never
> bill by the job.  
> 
> The bottom line is I do this for a living.  I have no desire to be a
> crusader/martyr for perfect database design.  I'm a woman with a California
> mortgage and two kids in college.  I am not a drone following direction
> indiscriminately.  I give them my best advice based on hard won experience.
> Rarely, if not never, has a client dictated data structure to me.  But they
> sure as heck want to dictate program flow.  When they move against my advice
> we usually wind up down the road with them deciding, once again, to tell me
> only what they want as the end result, not how it should work.  In the
> meantime I may need to twist myself into a pretzel to get the darn thing to
> work the way they 'envision' - but all the while the meter's running.
> 
> Jennifer