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Community Tute 16 - Participant Tracker

1. Start Access then select 'New' from the 'File' menu.


2. Select blank database and press 'OK'.


3. Access is now creating a new database file (.mdb), set the file name to 'ParticipantTracker.mdb'.


4. Blank database view, no tables created yet. To create a new table, hit the 'New' button while the 'Tables' tab is selected.


5. Select 'Design View' form the list to go straight into design mode of the table.


6. Create the following field names by typing the names in the table as shown in the view below. Choose the data types by using the drop list in the 'Data Type' column (default type is Text).


7. Save the table as 'Participants' and press 'OK'.


8. Microsoft Access will prompt you to choose a primary key, select 'Yes' as this will be the id that we will track the participants of the questionnaire through the different tables.


9. Create a new table (as above) and save the table as the 'Mailing List'. Close the table.


10. Choose no as we are using this table to enter the tracking id that we created in the 'Participants' table.


11. Create a new table, this one is used to hold the responses from the questionnaire.


12. Save the table as 'Progress Phase 1'.


13. Switch off the default values in the number field (delete that highlighted '0'), close and save changes.


14. No we will use the same table design for each of the different questionnaire phases, so save this table as 'Progress Phase 2'.


15. As above.


16. Save as 'baseline' this time.


17. The contacts table will be similar in design to the 'Mailing List' so open the 'Mailing List' table in design mode and save the table as Contacts.


18. As above.


19. Save the 'Progress Phase 2' table as 'Progress Phase 3'


20. Save the 'Progress Phase 3' table as 'Progress Phase 4'.






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