I have been adding categories for different types of aircraft, under a subcategory called "aircraft," which is a subcategory of the default root category. At one point, I created a category called "bombers" and saved it. It showed up in the treeview. Then, I created a category called "cargo" and it showed up under treeview, but "bombers" disappeared. When I tried to re-enter "bombers," I got the dreaded "URL key for specified store already exists." The category "bombers" does not show up in the admin treeview, and it does not show up on the front end either.
When I looked in the database, I saw there are entries for "bombers" in the catalog_category_entity_varchar table (see below). Do I/can I just delete these entries and try adding it again via the admin screen, or is it not that simple? I can just delete the category and start over, as I have no products associated with it yet. What should I do? Thank you.
"bombers" show up in this table
* UPDATE *
OK. I think I fixed this issue. First, I moved a copy locally (Windows/XAMPP), in case I screwed something up! I looked and saw two categories were both given entity_id of 60. I think that's what screwed everything up. I deleted any entries in any category tables that were 60. I then had to go into the marketing section of the admin area and delete the two url rewrites it created for 60. I could then add "Bombers" and "Fighters" and any other category I wanted to. Now, I just need to decide if I want to try and export the sql, or just make the changes manually on the server.
Let me know if what I did seems ok, and/of if there's more I need to do. Thanks.
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I'm an intern student at a company that does both wiring and aircon services. The job that they gave me was to make a database for them. I don't have any experience in anything related to databases.
So, I started to look up videos and stuff to at least learn a bit about databases and made something that works and I made it after 1.5 months of learning.
in the database that I created,
I have 1 table (CustomerDetailsT):
CustomerID (pk)
CustomerName
PhoneNumber
Address
Aircond (type and model of ac,ex: WM daikin 1.0HP)
AcDetails (what has been done for the ac.)
Others (yes/no) (Wiring, installing a fan and so on)
WhatHasBeenDone (shows what has been done for others)
Then 3 queries (CustomerOthersDetailsQ, CustomerAcDetailsQ, CustomerDetailsQ).CustomerAcDetailsQ has CustomerName, PhoneNumber, Address, Aircond and AcDetails. CustomerOthersDetailsQ has CustomerName, PhoneNumber, Address, Others, and WhatHasBeenDone.CustomerDetailsQ has CustomerID, CustomerName, PhoneNumber and Address
And 1 form with 3 subforms.
it's a search form, which would search for customers as we're typing in their name/phone number and it will show what has been done for the customer.
With this, I have created what the company wants, but now they want to add dates. Dates which would show when we have done something for a customer. Dates for Aircond and the Others stuff.
I've tried with what I know and it didn't work. tried searching it on youtube and google, but still couldn't find it.
how can I go about doing this?. I have tried having separate tables for each service, but it became a hassle when I wanted to create a new customer. . I hope I could some help, I could send pictures if someone needs them.
[1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/mtrmC.png [The Customer search form] [1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/A3Y9d.png [example of a customer that has ac installation] [1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/dsGL5.png [example of a customer that has both ac and wiring done]
Acknowledging the question is too broad, here is some guidance. One of the nice things about Access is that each database is a single file. First protect your work by finding that file and make two copies. Make a backup and a play around version. Only mess with the play around version.
Your question indicates you are still learning Table Normalization and 1 to many relationships. Both of these topics are general to all databases, so you don't have to restrict yourself to just Access when looking for guides and Youtube videos.
Part of normalization is putting separate entities into their own tables. Also, in Access there is a big payoff for using the Relationship Tool, so here is a rather lame example of normalization:
Make sure to select the checkboxes when setting up relationships.
WhatHasbeenDone should also have WhatHasbeenDoneDate. I've wrapped AC and Other as Unit because later it will be easier than having two WhatHasBeenDone tables(AC)(Other).
Now imagine someone taking the customer request call. They just want to see a form to enter the customer details, request, unit-type, etc. They don't want to see those tables. Even with training entering data in the tables is error prone. The person fulfilling the request just wants to enter what they did and when. That's how you start to figure out what your final Data entry forms will look like.
Since we normalized the tables and used the relationships tool, the payoff is Access can give us an assortment of working starter forms. Select Each Table and then hit Create and then hit Form. Choose your Favorites and start playing around from there. While playing, keep in mind that Access will not let you add an item on the many side of a relationship unless there is an item on the 1 side.
For example I selected the customers table and hit create form:
Access uses a concept of form and subform based on separate but related tables. So, to get a form that shows what has been done for each customer I created a form for the What has been done table, and dragged it onto the customers form:
Unless an ID is also being used as a part number or something there is probably no reason for the person entering data to see it. So I removed the texboxes bound to ID's. Except for UnitTypeID, where I replaced the textbox with a combobox that displays the userfriendly UnitDescription. The ID's are still part of the form recordsources, Access is still adding new IDs and using those IDs to put the appropriate data in the right tables.
Oh, didn't we need dates (went back and added a date to the table, and adjusted the subform accordingly). Also changed the subform format from single record to continuous records to show multiple dates:
In conclusion and in my opinion your final forms will use VBA behind the scenes to insert data from the forms into the tables. This is because either you will want to rapidly insert multiple records or How the end users think about the data will not match the default forms and subforms approach Access depends upon to figure out how to insert the data. However, the default approach is fast and I always use it for version 1 of my Access Databases.
P.S. For simplicity I avoided including any Many to Many relationships
I have a contact database, created on SQL server. An example of its many to many relationships is below:
1- Contact table (ContactID, Fname, Lname, ...)
2-Contact_Skill table (ContactID, SkillID, Score)
3-Skill table (SkillID, Skill_name, Skill_type)
For easier interaction, I linked this databse with MS access file (which will be the interface, used by users). Users mainly use it for insertion, and I have somewhere else a SQL report server to retrieve some data and do some reports.
My issue now is that, I'm trying to find an easier way (without programming) to insert data in the intermediate table (Contact_Skill), other than getting the IDs manually. A thing like a drop down menu, that enables the user to choose the skill and it turns into its ID. Any easier way would be so welcomed as well. Thanks
Ok, you likely don't need code, or at the very least VERY little code, and you certainly don't have to write code to insert the records.
So, I would create the form (bound directly to the linked contact table.
So, you can use ctrl-f, or whatever to search, find, jump to your record you want to edit. (so built in search features will suffice for now).
In that form, you will drop in a sub form. (a continues form - multiple items would work nice here.
So, in that form you have this:
In this example, I have
customers
Invoices
Invoice details
So, really, I have near example the same kind of setup. One master table (customers)
Then a child table of invoices.
And then for each invoice, we have details of the invoice.
So, your main form will have that sub form dropped in that shows the contact skills.
In my case, I have this:
So, for this, you not really written any code.
Now, do note that for each invoice (or your case of contact skills).
Note how I have a edit button in that continues form.
This allows our "drill" down.
The code behind this button is:
if me.Dirty = true, then me.Dirty = False
docmd.OpenForm "frmInvoice",,,"ID = " & me!id
So, clicking on edit will launch a new "main" form based on invoice (or in your case skills) the ONE record.
Now for that skills record, it not clear if you have another drill down (child table), but lets assume you do!
so, In that form, you simply drop in another sub form (again continues items), and you thus are now free to add more skills to that one contact skill.
In my case, it is invoice details, so we have this:
The above screens are rather crude (they are test scenes), but it shows a design in which you dealing with 3 typical related tables.
So the whole system works with about 6 lines of code. Just keep in mind that when you drop in a sub form to relate child items? Access will setup the foreign key value that belongs to the parent table that has the one "main" record, and that sub-form of child records. All that is required is that the link master/child setting is setup correct. Once done, then Access will manage and set the correct values used to relate the tables to each other, and you don't have to write any SQL or even any code for that matter. (you are free to add a sub form record, and then hit Edit button for further details to edit, or as noted add more child records to that form you just launched.
So related tables, and adding of child records is VERY automatic in Access, and you don't write code to add the records - access will do all this work for you if you follow the above design pattern. About the only code you ever had to add is the the "edit" button to launch the next form in the sequence.
I am new to laravel, I have tried a bunch of recommendations but none have worked for what I need. Do to requirements for design I am splitting my registration into two tables artist and the normal user table. The problem is email verification is done through the artist table. After that process has been completed I would simply like to update the last created user in the user table from 0 to 1 in the active column.
I can not figure out how to get this to work.
return $this->users()->where('verified')->first()->verified()- >orderBy('created_at', 'desc')->first();
Then ran update didn't work
User::orderby('created_at', 'desc')->first();
Then tried update didn't work
$user = User::find(1)->verified()- >update(array(
'Verified' => '1'
));
Non of the above have worked. Any suggestions are appreciated.
Given your requirements, and the way you are doing things - you are creating a user during registration (in the users table and setting verified to 0) and then putting some of their information in an artists table until they are verified.
I would add a users_id column to your artists table and set the value of this to the id of the newly created user.
When they verify, you can find their information in your artists table using their user_id and then move it anywhere you need to.
I followed this great guide to help me add a search feature to my Access database:
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/howdoi/how-do-i-populate-an-access-list-control-with-the-results-of-a-dynamic-search/108
At the end it says:
"If you’re building a quote or order, use the list control’s Click or Double Click event to copy record(s) to a temporary table. It’s easy to implement using a fixed query for each search task."
I have managed to display all search results in a list box and I would like to be able to click on a customer to highlight them, and then press a button to add an order to the selected customer. I've been thinking how I could do it and I really can't get my head around it.
Any help would be appreciated.
It depends on how you build your database. My guess is that one easy way would be:
Create a table with customers;
Create an "Order" table with orders where you link the customers through a foreign key
You load the customers in a listbox. While making the name visible, it is actually the ID that you retrieve when clicking the listbox. You can configure this via the wizard in the design view of a table. You can make other forms appear by events on the listbox (eg. on click).
If you managed to retrieve the ID of the customer, and you have the data related to the order (data that can easily be extracted from form objects and loaded into variables ) what you need is an insert statement and insert the values in the "Order" tabel (including the customer ID, which is linked through the foreign key).
This way all order records are linked to the customer and can be queried later.
Due to my limited knowledge on your other requests, I cannot help you any further on the rest of your database design.
I hope that my reply could help you and that I understood your question correctly.
You can access info from a listbox via:
List.Value
Or if it is not the first column then:
List.Column(0,0)
0 being the column and row references.
You may also consider using a listview over a listbox and then you can access the relevant parts of a listview control with the following code:
ListView.SelectedItem
Or if it is not the first column then:
ListView.SelectedItem.SubItems(3)
3 being the column reference
I want to create a multi-select Contact Lookup.
What i want :
When user clicks on a lookup then he should be able to select multiple contacts from that.
What i have done:
I have created an object and a field inside that object using both
"Lookup" and
"MasterDetail Relationship" and
"Junction Object"
When i try to use this Field for any input text/Field then it always provides an option to select only one value from lookup but i want to have an option to select multiple.
Even in the Junction object i have created 2 master-detail relationships still lookup allows only one value to be selected.Moreover it makes the field mandatory which i don't want.
Links that i followed:
http://success.salesforce.com/questionDetail?qId=a1X30000000Hl5dEAC
https://ap1.salesforce.com/help/doc/user_ed.jsp?loc=help§ion=help&hash=topic-title&target=relationships_manytomany.htm
Can anybody suggest me how to do this.
Its same as we use Email CC/BCC under Send Email option for any Lead.
Even you use a junction object a lookup is just that, it references (looks up to) one other record: when you create a record on the junction object you still have to set each lookup individually and you're still creating only one record.
Master Detail relationships are essentially lookups on steroids, one object becomes the child of the other and will be deleted if the parent object is deleted, they're not going to provide an interface to lookup to many records at once.
If you're not a developer then your best bet is to either just create on junction object record at a time, or look into using dataloader. You could prepare your data in Excel or similar and then upload all the records into Salesforce in one go.
If you are a developer, or have developers at your disposal, then what we've done in the past is create a Visualforce page to do the job. So if, for example, you wanted to link a bunch of contacts up to an Account, we'd have a single account lookup field on the page, then some search fields relating to fields on the contact. Using a SOQL query you can then find all contacts matching the search parameters and display them in a list, where you may want to provide checkboxes to allow the user to select the contacts they want. Then it's just a case of looping through the selected contacts, setting their Account field to be the chosen account.
There are areas in Salesforce (such as the send Email functionality you mentioned) where it's clear to see that bespoke work has been done to fulfil a specific task — another instance of what you want is in the area where you can manage campaign members. This is the model I've copied in the past when implementing a Visualforce page as described.
Good luck!
For adding multiple junction objects at one time, the only solution we have found is a custom Visualforce page, as described by LaceySnr.
For a slightly different problem, where we need to assign many of object B to object A, We have trained our users to do this with a view on object B. We are assigning Billing Accounts (B) to Payment Offices (A). The view on Billing Account has check boxes on the left side. The user checks the Billing Accounts to be assigned, then double-clicks on the Payment Office field on any of the checked rows. A pop-up asks if you want to update only the single row or all checked rows. By selecting 'all checked rows', the update is done to all of them.
The view is created by the user, who enters the selection criteria (name, address, state, etc.). All user-created views are visible only to them.