My boss asked me to do a new Access database from scratch. I’ve never done an Access database on my own before, and would appreciate any advice you guys have. This is to help employees schedule appointments for 46 medical doctors in 14 different medical offices. As for my relationships, I hope I’ve set up everything correctly: As you can see, I’ve set up two junction tables, but am not quite sure how to set up a search query with junction tables. I’ve looked in my two Access 2013 books, and I’ve also looked online but am not having much luck. For example, with the table Junction_Provider_Insurance, I’m not sure how to search the Junction table to pull up the doctor and if the doctor is contracted, not contracted, needs authorization or pending for the insurance. So if a doctor’s name and an insurance name such as Aetna is searched, I want the result to show that the doctor is or is not contracted with Aetna in ReportResults. As for the search, I originally set up a wildcard search for all the search boxes. My original intention was that the user could type in anything they wanted in one or two or three of the boxes (such as doctor’s name, visit type and insurance) and do a search where the results come up. However this is not working at all and time is of the essence as I’ve already missed my deadline to turn in this a week ago. Due to missing the deadline, I decided to change the wildcard text search to a combo box for the Doctor’s Name, Medical Office Name, Visit Type, Specialty and Insurance in the hopes the search will finally work. I’m thinking the best way to handle this is to remove the medical office, and then just have the doctor’s name, then when that comes up, to cascade into a new combo box for the visit type (new patient, follow up, pre-op, post-op, etc.) Or is there a better way to do this? I still need the results to show in the report too. Thank you so much for your time and help. I really appreciate it very much.

trying to create a scheduling doctor appointments in Access 2013

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I will have to send it to you in the morning. I had to log in to the work server from home tonight to try to download it, and it kept booting me out so I will try again in the morning. I really appreciate your time and help very much.

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I am taking tomorrow off but if you want to send to me I'll look at on Sunday. If you do please detail what you want because next week is kind of crowded and I don't want to leave you waiting for answers.

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I ended up bringing in two subforms as the search still is not working. I was also afraid people may be confused with everything the way it used to be - with only one search button. The two sub-forms are called sfrSearchSpecialty and sfrSearchSubSpecialty to the right of the screen. So now I have:

If I do search on the subform Speciality for "Orthopedic Surgery" it comes up, and gives us all the Ortho Surgeons so that's great:

If I do a search on the subform Specialty for Internal Medicine, it gives me three IM providers in two different offices, so I am happy with that, as it is working somewhat. It's not picking up all IM providers in all offices though. The first office actually has five providers, and the second office has two providers.

If I do search on the subform SubSpeciality for "Knee" it comes up, and gives us all the Ortho Surgeons that work on knees, so that's great. Unfortunately it doesn't work on the other subspecialities and I'm not sure why.

Unfortunately the main search, with Provider + Visit + Insurance is returning a ton of duplicates, repeating the one item over and over.

I will be working on this all weekend, trying to fix the main search so it does not repeat 50 times, and also trying to fix the other searches. Thank you so much for your time and help.

Main Search:

Private Sub BtnSearch_Click()

On Error Resume Next

Dim strWhere As String

Dim strSQL As String

Dim lngLen As Long

'Number field example. Do not add the extra quotes.

If Not IsNull(Me.cboProviderName) Then

strWhere = strWhere & "([pProviderID] = " & Me.cboProviderName & ") AND "

End If

If Not IsNull(Me.cboVisitType) Then

strWhere = strWhere & "([vVisitID] = " & Me.cboVisitType & ") AND "

End If

If Not IsNull(Me.cboInsurance) Then

strWhere = strWhere & "([piInsuranceID] = " & Me.cboInsurance & ") AND "

End If

lngLen = Len(strWhere) - 5

If lngLen <= 0 Then

strSQL = strSQL

DoCmd.OpenReport "rptResults", acViewReport

DoCmd.Maximize

Else

strWhere = Left$(strWhere, lngLen)

strSQL = strSQL & " WHERE " & strWhere

DoCmd.OpenReport "rptResults", acViewReport, , strWhere

DoCmd.Maximize

Reports![rptResults].Filter = strWhere

Reports![rptResults].FilterOn = True

End If

End Sub

Private Sub cboProviderName_AfterUpdate()

' set Visit Type and Insurance combo boxes to Null

' and requery controls to show Visit Type in selected Provider

Me.cboVisitType = Null

Me.cboVisitType.Requery

Me.cboInsurance = Null

Me.cboInsurance.Requery

' requery form to show Provider choice

Me.Requery

End Sub

Private Sub cboVisitType_AfterUpdate()

' set Insurance combo box to Null

' and requery control to show Insurance in Visit Type

Me.cboInsurance = Null

Me.cboInsurance.Requery

' requery form to show Visit in selected Visit Type

Me.Requery

End Sub

Private Sub cboInsurance_AfterUpdate()

' requery form to show Insurance name in selected Insurance

Me.Requery

End Sub

Private Sub cboVisitType_Click()

Me.cboVisitType.Requery

End Sub

Private Sub cboInsurance_Click()

Me.cboInsurance.Requery

End Sub

Specialty Search:

Option Compare Database

Option Explicit

Private Sub BtnResetSpecialty_Click()

Dim ctl As Control

For Each ctl In Me.Section("Detail").Controls

Select Case ctl.ControlType

Case acTextBox, acComboBox

ctl.Value = Null

Case acCheckBox

ctl.Value = False

End Select

Private Sub BtnSearchSpecialty_Click()

On Error Resume Next

Dim strWhere As String

Dim strSQL As String

Dim lngLen As Long

'Number field example. Do not add the extra quotes.

If Not IsNull(Me.cboSpecialty) Then

strWhere = strWhere & "([sSpecialtyID] = " & Me.cboSpecialty & ") AND "

End If

lngLen = Len(strWhere) - 5

If lngLen <= 0 Then

strSQL = strSQL

DoCmd.OpenReport "rptResultsSpecialty", acViewReport

DoCmd.Maximize

Else

strWhere = Left$(strWhere, lngLen)

strSQL = strSQL & " WHERE " & strWhere

DoCmd.OpenReport "rptResultsSpecialty", acViewReport, , strWhere

DoCmd.Maximize

Reports![rptResultsSpecialty].Filter = strWhere

Reports![rptResultsSpecialty].FilterOn = True

End If

End Sub

Private Sub cboSpecialty_Click()

Me.cboSpecialty.Requery

End Sub

Sub-Specialty Search:

Option Compare Database

Option Explicit

Private Sub BtnResetSubSpec_Click()

Dim ctl As Control

For Each ctl In Me.Section("Detail").Controls

Select Case ctl.ControlType

Case acTextBox, acComboBox

ctl.Value = Null

Case acCheckBox

ctl.Value = False

End Select

Private Sub BtnSearchSubSpec_Click()

On Error Resume Next

Dim strWhere As String

Dim strSQL As String

Dim lngLen As Long

'Number field example. Do not add the extra quotes.

If Not IsNull(Me.cboSubSpecialty) Then

strWhere = strWhere & "([ssSubSpecialtyID] = " & Me.cboSubSpecialty & ") AND "

End If

lngLen = Len(strWhere) - 5

If lngLen <= 0 Then

strSQL = strSQL

DoCmd.OpenReport "rptResultsSubSpecialty", acViewReport

DoCmd.Maximize

Else

strWhere = Left$(strWhere, lngLen)

strSQL = strSQL & " WHERE " & strWhere

DoCmd.OpenReport "rptResultsSubSpecialty", acViewReport, , strWhere

DoCmd.Maximize

Reports![rptResultsSubSpecialty].Filter = strWhere

Reports![rptResultsSubSpecialty].FilterOn = True

End If

End Sub

Private Sub cboSubSpecialty_Click()

Me.cboSubSpecialty.Requery

End Sub

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Hi Gina,

Thank you for your reply. I just saw this when I came on just now to post an update of my project. I will try this next. Meanwhile, I will post an update. The "drop dead" deadline is Monday morning at 8 a.m. so I have to fix the rest of the issues this weekend.

Thank you again for all your time and help. I really appreciate it very much.

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