Create a form for orders through which you can make

sales the form needs to include the following

1. Customer ID (preferably chosen from a combo box)
2. Order ID ( invoice number)
3. Pickup date (should choose the current date as the
default)
4. Notes (any additional information entered when the
sale is made)
5. Information about all the products included in the
sale
a. Product id
b. Product name (should be automatically selected
based on the id)
c. Product price
d. Quantity
e. Description
6. Total price (sum of all products costs (quantity*price))
7. Make the form modal ( opened in maximized mode)
8. The form should open first thing when the database
is opened
9. Include three buttons
a. Add new record
b. Save the record
c. Close the form
Solution steps
1.Creating the form
a. We need to create this form using the form wizard
i. Include all the fields from orders table
ii. Include products id ,quantity, price from order
Details table
iii. Include name and description from products
table

b. View the form by orders

c. Name the form and click finish
2.Adding a combo box for customer names
a. In layout view select design and click on the
combo box then click on the form
b. A dialogue box opens select the first ( taking
values from a table)
c. Select the customer table
d. Then select ID, First Name, Last name
e. Choose define now and relate the combo box to
the customer id field on the form
f. Click finish
NOTE/ whenever an object is added to a form access will
ask how you want to relate this object to the form. For
example when you insert a combo box to a form it will
ask where the selected value should be stored.
3.To make the form default
a. Go to file->options->current database
b. Select this forms name in the display form field
4.To make the form open in maximized view
a. Select the form in design view
b. Open the property sheet
c. On others tab change modal to yes
5.To calculate total price on the form
a. Create a query to find the total price grouped by
each ID
b. Drag the query into the form
c. In the dialogue box relate the query to the form by
order id