Posted by Ed Murphy on 01/23/07 04:56

thomanjl wrote:

> I have an access program that tracks the location of certain items.
> When the items are moved their record will be added with transfer
> information.
>
> So, there are two tables: tblContents and tblTransfer
>
> tblContents holds all the relevant information about each item as well
> as a flag for transferred items and tblTransfer holds all the
> transferred item information.
>
> My problem is: How do I update tblTransfer when an item in tblContents
> gets flagged true?
>
> btw, this is using a .asp front end to interact with the database.

Define a trigger on tblContents, something like this:

create trigger trgTransfer on tblContents for insert, update as
insert into tblTriggers
select <list of fields>
from inserted
go

Since this is at the database level, it is completely independent
of the Access and .ASP layers.

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