I have a quick question, what is the name of the TFS 2010 database table that contains values for any custom fields.
I did a query against the TFS_Warehouse DB and the dbo.DimWorkItem table. However, I cannot find any of my custom work item fields under this table.
Can someone point me to the correct TFS 2010 table containing the custom field data? When I worked with Quality Center, the tables were pretty well defined so it was easy to do backend DB queries. TFS does not seem that intuitive.
Thanks
you have to add "reportable" to field definition.
Example - FIELD name="Scope" refname="xxx.Scope" type="String" reportable="dimension"
Wait few minutes and you'll see field in warehouse DB
look,
you need to go to your collection database, and to check a table called something like Fields.
there, you will find the new field properties and the type as well.
you can change the type to string and to be reportable.
go to the table of the WORKITEMLATEST, and check the field- you can see the name of the field like what was mentioned in the FIELDS table,.
open your work item normally, edit that field information, click save...
you can see your data updated in the WORKITEMLATEST table
BUT...
the problem is the STRING type is limited... I tried to add more text.. it keep telling me that number of character is over limit !
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I'm trying to think of the easiest way for non-tech users to dump info into a database, without coding my own web application.
Essentially, they are recording subjective phone grading scores for employees.
I linked an Access form to our MS SQL Server database. The only validation I want it -- I want one field, 'employee' - to be validated against a list of employees from say table.employee on SQL Server.
Once the form is submitted it will be written to table.scorecard -- or what have you.
Is this possible in Access? Their standard validation rules don't seem to cover this. Also, is there simply a better way to accomplish this task in general? Thanks
There are two ways to solve this problem.
The simplest is to use a combobox field for your employee information. Use the employee table as the list data source for the combobox and then set the LimitToList property to true. This assumes that you have setup linked table connections for both your employee table and your 'scores' table.
The second solution is to create a foreign key between the employeeId (or whatever the key field is) in the scores table and the employee table on the SQL side. If someone tries to insert an invalid employee, you will get an insert error. Unfortunately, SQL errors tend to be very confusing to most Access users.
If you want to be very through, you could implement both solutions, this would prevent someone going straight to the linked tables and putting in bad data.
I just realized that I am assuming that you are doing proper relational design where the 'scores' table would contain the employeeId rather than a full name. The idea on the form is to have the combobox display the name, but insert the employeeid field.
I have two tables in a database. One is called salesreceipt and the other is salesreceiptlinedetail.
Each row in salesreceiptlinedetail has a field IDKEY that matches a field TxnID in a row in salesreceipt. There can be multiple rows in salesreceiptlinedetail that can match the same row in salesreceipt.
I have third party software that syncs my access database with Salesforce. The software only allows querying one table in the database at a time.
I need to automatically copy some of the fields from the salesreceipt table to new fields in the salesreceiptlinedetail table so I can sync the data correctly.
I'm very new to MS access. After trying many different things I landed on a solution that I think may work but I'm not sure how to do it. It looks like I can set the default value of a field. I'm thinking I need to do a DLookup to find the field I want to copy in the salesreceipt table and somehow use criteria to check the IDKEY matches the TxnID. I think I need to create a module with a function to do this but I'm not sure how and how to call it.
I may be way off on this. I could use some help or ideas. I've been researching for hours and could use a little push in the right direction. Thanks in advance.
Here's some things you can try, though I'm making some assumptions about the tables you've got and the result you're looking for.
So you've got a table called salesreceipt with an ID field TxnID and some other data (e.g. CustomerRef_FullName):
And then you've got a salesreceiptlinedetail table that has a field IDKEY field that matches back to salesreceipt table's TxnID field (i.e. a foreign key) and an empty field (e.g. FullName) that you want data for by matching the record back to the salesreceipt table.
I can think of a few ways of achieving this so that you end up with a table that has the information you want, but I'm not sure which is best for you. All these options shown are using Access 2013.
1) Get the data using a SELECT query and export those results across to your third-party software:
In Access, go to Create / Query Design:
Add your salesreceipt and salesreceiptlinedetail tables to your query and then close the Show Table window:
Click and drag on the TxnID field to the IDKEY field to create a join (represented by a line in Access):
Double-click on the IDKEY from your salesreceiptlinedetail and CustomerRef_FullName from your salesreceipt table; they should show as fields in the area at the bottom (if you have other fields you need then add those too, I'm just going on 1 field for illustrative purposes):
Click run to see the result of this query:
Hopefully this is showing a table that's starting to fill-in the blanks you want:
You can then save the query (right-click on the query table and chose "save" and name it whatever you want):
And export the results to a spreadsheet (assuming spreadsheet is the format your third-party software takes). Go to External Data / and then click "Excel" from the export group:
The query with the name you saved it as will be there in the Access Objects side-bar so that you can run it and export the results again (double-click on it to run it again):
The good thing about this method is that it's faster than using DLOOKUPs (these can be resource-heavy if you have a lot of records) and if there is new data/records in your salesreceipt and salesreceiptlinedetail tables, the query will run on that new data and include it in its results without you having to modify the query.
For your question though, it sounded like you might want to populate your salesreceiptlinedetail table with the data you need... this SELECT query will not do that. If you want to populate the actual salesreceiptlinedetail table you will need an UPDATE query...
2) Populate empty fields in salesreceiptlinedetail using an UPDATE query matched to records from salesreceipt
In this example, we're going to populate an empty field in salesreceiptlinedetail, namely the FullName field. We're going to do this by matching records in salesreceiptlinedetail to salesreceipt using the IDKEY and TxnID fields and then bring across the corresponding data in the CustomerRef_FullName field to the FullName field.
To do this, setup a new query the same way we did in (1) above and stop after you complete this stage:
Change the Query Type to an "Update" query:
Double-click the empty field you want to populate, e.g. FullName from the salesreceiptlinedetail table:
In the "Update To" box, type the name of the corresponding table and field you want to use to populate your empty field. Enclose the table and field each by a pair of square brackets and separate each by dot. So it should look something like this:
[salesreceipt].[CustomerRef_FullName]
In the criteria box, match your IDKEY and TxnID fields, like this:
[salesreceiptlinedetail].[IDKEY]=[salesreceipt].[TxnID]
Click "Run" and Access should show a warning that it is about to update some records in a table. Click Yes to allow it to do this:
If you go back to your salesreceiptlinedetail table, you should see that the once empty FullName field is now populated:
You can then save your UPDATE query for use again later - be aware that double-clicking on the query will open it AND run the UPDATE again (i.e. it will attempt to populate your salesreceiptlinedetail table with new data), so if you don't want that to happen you can right-click on it and open it Design View before opting to run it.
This method is good if you want to populate data in an already existing table, rather than essentially building a new table of results out of existing tables as described in (1) when we used a SELECT query.
If there's new data in salesreceiptlinedetail or salesreceipt, you'll want to run this UPDATE query again.
This is to add to Matt's answer. We have similar situations for a miniature reporting database, where we need to update the database several times through out the day. We wrap the query in a function and schedule a task in Windows to run every 4 hours that executes the Access function and updates the data.
I have to add a table for database in Light-switch server, when i click the add table, i can able to add only the fields name and its property in the table. How can i add values for the field? I have to add values for the Name and Order fields of a table. Can any one help me.
Thanks in advance
Click to highlight the field you want to edit, and look for the Properties window. In properties, you should see Choice List, as long as you are looking at the Server perspective, and you are not looking at a Primary Key.
i want to work on a form, here i will enter the data into text fields and this will be updated into a table as a new entry. Now out of the fields available iwant few of them to be stored into another table. so its like saving form data into multiple tables. I searched in many places but cudnt find any solution.
The best solution is to use a form and a subform. Table1 is bound to form and Table2 is bound to subform.
Thanks for the solution...i dont want to go for another form though...but i figured out a way..for the 2nd table i introduced a button and on click of the event wrote a vb code such that it will look for ID field of type autonumber(introduced for the sake of searching row) and used dlookup with a criteria expression to find out the row in 2nd table n used a insert statement...this worked...thanks for the response, appreciate it...
Wow, I'm having a bit of a headache with Access 2007. I have two tables, main_table and ref_table. when I store an int id in main_table corresponding to some record in ref_table, I get the looked up value of the record that I'm storing and not the int id. This isn't what I expected and I'd like access to behave like every other database on the face of the planet and show me the information how I stored it and not how it thinks I want to see it. Anyone know how to turn this 'feature' off?
Got it.
1-Go to design view of your table.
2-select the look-up tab bellow the field list.
3-Change row source type to "values".