Seat reservations

[janmd]

I have created an Event Management database but now want to add to
this to assign seats to people attending an event. The event will run
through several days, and I want to be able to assign people their
required number of seats, where the better seats are assigned first.
If someone has asked for 5 seats, I need to search for where there are
five seats next to each other, not two together, then an aisle, then
three together, etc.

Is this at all possible?

I am not a VBA programmer, so need to be able to set up the relevant
extra table for seats which should be reasonable straight forward, but
then not sure how to go about a query for assigning the seats.

 

[Larry Daugherty]

Your posted issue has nothing to do with Access. You need to work
out the algorithm for seat assignments with all trade offs and
considerations. Only when you have that done should you turn to
Access or any other platform to implement your solution.

HTH

 

[John W. Vinson]

I have created an Event Management database but now want to add to
this to assign seats to people attending an event. The event will run
through several days, and I want to be able to assign people their
required number of seats, where the better seats are assigned first.
If someone has asked for 5 seats, I need to search for where there are
five seats next to each other, not two together, then an aisle, then
three together, etc.

Is this at all possible?

I am not a VBA programmer, so need to be able to set up the relevant
extra table for seats which should be reasonable straight forward, but
then not sure how to go about a query for assigning the seats.

As Larry says, this goes way beyond Access; and it's likely to be a
monstrously complicated algorithm. "Better" is a rubber ruler in any case -
some customers will consider "good" seats to be those next to an aisle, others
will want seats at the front of the balcony; some may consider three+two
across an aisle to be totally out of the question, others may consider it an
excellent choice; all sorts of difficult-to-measure variations.

Access can help with the "how do I do this" - but you may have more work than
you expect deciding what the "this" is!

 

[John... Visio MVP]

I have developed something similar to your assigning seats for assigning
vendor tables at a large conference. I could implement the same scenario
for your seat reservations in your database for a reasonable fee. Contact
me if you want my help. I have been providing help with Access, Excel and
Word applications for over ten years. My fees are very reasonable.

Steve

Steve you need medical help. You have been told many times that these
newsgroups are not your a forum for grovelling for work, but you persist.
You are also suffering under the delusion that you are a competent person
who can help. You have proven many times in the newsgroups that you do not
know what you are talking about and do not have even basic skills in Access,
Word or Excel.


These newsgroups are provided by Microsoft for FREE peer to peer support.
There are many highly qualified individuals who gladly help for free. Stevie
is not one of them, but he is the only one who just does not get the idea of
"FREE" support. He offers questionable results at unreasonable prices. If he
was any good, the "thousands" of people he claims to have helped would be
flooding him with work, but there appears to be a continuous drought and he
needs to constantly grovel for work.

A few gems gleaned from the Word New User newsgroup over the Christmas
holidays to show Stevie's "expertise" in Word.


Dec 17, 2008 7:47 pm

Word 2007 ..........
In older versions of Word you could highlght some text then go to Format -
Change Case and change the case of the hoghloghted text. Is this still
available in Word 2007? Where?
Thanks! Steve


Dec 22, 2008 8:22 pm

I am designing a series of paystubs for a client. I start in landscape and
draw a table then add columns and rows to setup labels and their
corresponding value. This all works fine. After a landscape version is
completed, I next need to design a portrait version. Rather than strating
from scratch, I'd like to be able to cut and paste from the landscape
version and design the portrait version.
Steve


Dec 24, 2008, 1:12 PM

How do you protect the document for filling in forms?
Steve


One of my favourites:
Dec 30, 2008 8:07 PM - a reply to stevie
(The original poster asked how to sort a list and stevie offered to create
the OP an Access database)

Yes, you are right but a database is the correct tool to use not a
spreadsheet.

Not at all. If it's just a simple list then a spreadsheet is perfectly
adequate...




John... Visio MVP

 

[janmd]

Steve you need medical help. You have been told many times that these
newsgroups are not your a forum for grovelling for work, but you persist.
You are also suffering under the delusion that you are a competent person
who can help. You have proven many times in the newsgroups that you do not
know what you are talking about and do not have even basic skills in Access,
Word or Excel.

These newsgroups are provided by Microsoft for FREE peer to peer support.
There are many highly qualified individuals who gladly help for free. Stevie
is not one of them, but he is the only one who just does not get the idea of
"FREE" support. He offers questionable results at unreasonable prices. If he
was any good, the "thousands" of people he claims to have helped would be
flooding him with work, but there appears to be a continuous drought and he
needs to constantly grovel for work.

A few gems gleaned from the Word New User newsgroup over the Christmas
holidays to show Stevie's "expertise" in Word.

Dec 17, 2008 7:47 pm

Word 2007 ..........
In older versions of Word you could highlght some text then go to Format -
Change Case and change the case of the hoghloghted text. Is this still
available in Word 2007? Where?
Thanks! Steve

Dec 22, 2008 8:22 pm

I am designing a series of paystubs for a client. I start in landscape and
draw a table then add columns and rows to setup labels and their
corresponding value. This all works fine. After a landscape version is
completed, I next need to design a portrait version. Rather than strating
from scratch, I'd like to be able to cut and paste from the landscape
version and design the portrait version.
Steve

Dec 24, 2008, 1:12 PM

How do you protect the document for filling in forms?
Steve

One of my favourites:
Dec 30, 2008 8:07 PM - a reply to stevie
(The original poster asked how to sort a list and stevie offered to create
the OP an Access database)


Not at all. If it's just a simple list then a spreadsheet is perfectly
adequate...

John... Visio MVP

Many thanks to all for their advice - I will go back to first
principles, before trying this in Access.