Susan Harkins
ssharkins at gmail.com
Fri Jul 3 08:45:49 CDT 2009
They said "One stipulation the new > program has to maintain the look and feel of the original worksheet". =====My war story: A client using an old db program needed (really, wanted) sequential id numbers. To accomplish that, he'd been reusing pk values for years -- when he would delete a record, he would write down the number and then enter that number for the next record's id value -- totally insane. He was furious when my Access interface didn't allow him to reuse numbers. I kept explaining that it was totally unnecessary. He just didn't get it, and we never finished the project. Now, I had accommodated him in that each record displayed a sequential id number automatically -- but that wasn't good enough, he wanted control, he wanted the ability to enter deleted id values himself. I refused. He fired me. In retrospect, I should've given him what he wanted, allowed him to go through the process... it wouldn't have mattered, I was already using an AutoNumber pk that he couldn't see, so wouldn't have meant balls... he was insane and I just didn't think fast enough on my feet. Susan H.