Views and Reviews

8. What Do You See? Programmers have two different roles. You need to see the Form as a User would. You also need to determine if the Form is saving the right data.

 

The Computer Mama Sez: When you are proofing a Form, it helps to see the Key data and compare what you see in the Form to what is stored in the Table.

 

Do they match? Is number matched to number? Text matched to Text?

 

In the example on this page:

Who: CustomerID 2 (Deeter Poohbah)

Bought: ReceiptID 1

What: MovieID 160, 156 and 159.

 

A Form is just a pretty, programmable face on a Table. The Table holds the data, the data, the data. The data is everything.

Comparison of the Key data in tblMovieRented and the MovieRentedSubform