[AccessD] VBA Unbound data entry / update form

Can't help you with the unbound forms John since I don't use them in the way
you need.  But I completely sympathize with having a problem to solve where,
if you had it your way the problem wouldn't exist in the first place.

Jennifer 

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Subject: Re: [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
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