Lookup List of Values depending on a previous lookup list (1 Viewer)

ds3010

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Hello, I'm completely new to Access so this might sound a little too newbee for you. Well, here it goes. I'm creating a simple database for a competition. Participants are awarded points every time they do a certain volunteer job. My fields are the ID primary key, Last Name, First Name, Volunteer Job, Participation, Date and Points Earned. The Volunteer Job Field is a list of look-up values that I just created.

The issue is that "participation" should be a list of values but they directly depend on the volunteer job. This is that for example if I scroll down the Volunteer Job option and I choose let's say: "Newspaper", I want the "Participation" field to automatically show another look-up list with "Wrote an article; provided a tip for an article; volunteered for one hour". And every time I choose a different Volunteer Job from the drop-down list I created, the "Participation" field should show the appropriate list of options depending on the Job I chose.

Any ideas would be very appreciated thanks.
P.D: I'm not that much into SQL, so if the solution is typing commands in the row source property please help me out.

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jdraw

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You shouldn't use lookups at the table level.
http://www.mvps.org/access/lookupfields.htm

If that isn't what you're doing, you may want to search for Cascading Comboboxes which is what I think you're asking about.
 

ds3010

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Cascading Combo Boxes!!! that's exactly what I'm looking for!!! thank you that's a great start. Now I will start looking up through the internet and learn how to do it. If you could please send me good links about that so I can understand how to do it that'd be awesome. Thanks again.
 

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Did my link not work?
 

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Happy to help.
 

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