How Do I Ask A Question?

You may notice that some folks get their questions answered almost immediately while others will languish for days before receiving their first reply. Contrary to popular belief, this rarely has anything to do with us playing favorites (sometimes it does, but that's only if the poster is exceptionally awesome). In general, the reason one question gets a plethora of support while another gets squat is because of how the question was asked.


Some of our members are quite skilled in a variety of disciplines, some are outright experts, none are cairvoyant. When posting your question, please include:

• POST YOUR ACTUAL QUESTION IN THE THREAD TITLE. The fact that you are posting here in the first place is a good indicator that you "NEED HELP PLZ!11!". You are more likely to receive timely assistance if there is something meaningful in your thread title that will allow someone scanning the forums to identify your post as an area of their expertise.
• What version of Access you're using
• The business logic or problem you are trying to solve with your application
• The SPECIFIC behavior or lack thereof that describes your problem
• If you're posting regarding an error, please, post the error. C'mon, seriously folks.
• Post your current solution, what it's doing that you don't like AND an example of your desired results
  For general SQL/table design/query issues, this would include a full description of the tables involved; Sample data; and sample result records.

Also, we do not know anything about your project or application unless you explicitly tell us about it. That means a question such as, "The client button doesn't populate the third insurance claim selector with the code!!!" will go unanswered. We don't know what you're talking about, sorry.

In short, give us half a chance at actually being able to answer your question. Make it as easy as possible, and you're FAR more likely to get a response.

When you have arrived at a solution to your problem, please report back to the thread to let us know what did the trick. I know it cuts into your time a bit and isn't necessary once you solved your issue, but gee golly it gives us the warm fuzzies and helps out the next poor schmoe who comes along with the same question. As a bonus, we'll take a shine to ya'