I think your underlying flow is part of the problem. Why not just have a field on the ALLrecs form such as the Status that can have only two values of "New" and "Processed"? Even if you have a real need to push the records to the ProcessedRecs table, you could have a filter on the ProcessedRecs table push back the "Processed" value to the Allrecs table, at which point your query in the Allrecs table can be where 'Status' = 0 (e.g. New)?
I think rather than trying to make what you are doing work, you may want to take a step back and look at your design and make sure you are proceeding down the right path. Shawn Pierson From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Mark Seiler Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 8:35 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Query against two forms ** Hi Listers, I'm looking for some guidance on doing the following: I have 2 regular forms called ALLrecs and PROCESSEDrecs, each having fields like F1, F2 and F3 I'm looking to populate a third form to contain the results of a query such that the user can select from a list of AVAILABLE records (everything in ALLrecs less all the records in PROCESSEDrecs). A working SQL statement to do this is: SELECT F1, F2, F3 FROM ALLrecs WHERE (F1 NOT IN (SELECT F1, F2, F3 FROM PROCESSEDrecs)) Making this new AVAILABLE form a join form (inner or outer) doesn't seem to be giving me the results I want. Perhaps a Direct SQL or table walk on ALLrecs? arrgh. This AVAILABLE data has to be updated or recreated each time the user performs this activity. Ultimately the users selections from AVAILABLE will be further processed, then will update the PROCESSEDrecs form etc etc (I've got that part). Thanks for any thoughts. -Mark Win Server 2003/MS SQL 2000 ARS 7.1 patch 6 ITSM 7.0.03 patch 006 _Platinum Sponsor: rmisoluti...@verizon.net ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ Private and confidential as detailed here: http://www.sug.com/disclaimers/default.htm#Mail . If you cannot access the link, please e-mail sender. _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor:rmisoluti...@verizon.net ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
