List box or another alternative

  • Thread starter Thread starter forest8
  • Start date Start date
F

forest8

Hi

I need to create a form but don't know whether I should use a multi-select
list box or something else. In essence, I want to create a log of all
meetings with students in a case managemnet setting.

What i need to do is create a form in which the responses are based on
multiple criteria.

I have a database which involves case management of students.

For communication methods: I have telephone, cell, email, face to face,
group meetings, facebook.

I am also tracking the following:
Physical Observations which includes threatening postures/gestures,
hostility, argumentative, etc. [12 characteristics overall]
Emotional/Mental Conditions which include speech patterns, incoherent,
confusion, changing subjects, suspicious of others, etc. [16 characteristics
overall]
Physical Appearance such as lack of personal hygiene, malnourished, signs of
drug use, lack of care of appearance, etc. [16 characteristics overall]
Topics discussed: Goals, Addictions, Parenting, Mental Health, Education,
etc. [12 issues overall]

If I chose a Yes/No field, this would result in a table of 50 fields. If I
did a multi-select list box, I've read that making queries with this data
could become problematic.

I would also need to create a report that would provide me with all the
details of all meetings with a particular student by date.

I'm not sure of how I should be setting this up.

Thanks in advance for your help.
 
Hi

I need to create a form but don't know whether I should use a multi-select
list box or something else. In essence, I want to create a log of all
meetings with students in a case managemnet setting.
Click to expand...

The Form is irrelevant to this question. The Form does not control the
relationships between the data. That's the job of the Table, and the table's
relationships. Whether you display that data in a Subform, a Multiselect
listbox, or some other way is a presentation style decision, not a data
modeling decision.
What i need to do is create a form in which the responses are based on
multiple criteria.

I have a database which involves case management of students.

For communication methods: I have telephone, cell, email, face to face,
group meetings, facebook.

I am also tracking the following:
Physical Observations which includes threatening postures/gestures,
hostility, argumentative, etc. [12 characteristics overall]
Emotional/Mental Conditions which include speech patterns, incoherent,
confusion, changing subjects, suspicious of others, etc. [16 characteristics
overall]
Physical Appearance such as lack of personal hygiene, malnourished, signs of
drug use, lack of care of appearance, etc. [16 characteristics overall]
Topics discussed: Goals, Addictions, Parenting, Mental Health, Education,
etc. [12 issues overall]

If I chose a Yes/No field, this would result in a table of 50 fields. If I
did a multi-select list box, I've read that making queries with this data
could become problematic.

I would also need to create a report that would provide me with all the
details of all meetings with a particular student by date.

I'm not sure of how I should be setting this up.
Click to expand...

You have at least two many to many relationships: each Student can be involved
in many instances of Communication; and you'll use (say) face to face
encounters with many Students. So you need an Encounters table with a field
for the StudentID, as a link to a table of Students; and a ModeID, with a link
to a table of communication methods. Similar principles will apply to the
other issues.

Get the table relationships first... and THEN worry about how to display them
on a form! You'll use several subforms, I'm sure!
 
To expand on what John said, consider these tables ......
TblStudent
StudentID
FirstName
LastName
etc

TblCommunicationMethod
CommunicationMethodID
CommunicationMethod

TblTopic
TopicID
Topic

TblMeeting
MeetingID
Meetingdate
CommunicationMethodID

TblTopicsDiscussedAtMeeting
TopicsDiscussedAtMeetingID
MeetingID
TopicID

TblStudentAtMeeting
StudentAtMetingID
MeetingID
StudentID

TblPhysicalObservation
PhysicalObservationID
PhysicalObservation

TblEmotionalMentalCondition
EmotionalMentalConditionID
EmotionalMentalCondition

TblPhysicalAppearance
PhysicalAppearanceID
PhysicalAppearance

TblStudentDispositionAtMeeting
StudentDispositionAtMeetingID
StudentAtMetingID
PhysicalObservationID
EmotionalMentalConditionID
PhysicalAppearanceID

Steve
(e-mail address removed)
 
Back
Top