01 November 2011

Modifying the Journal Entry Form

In the previous posting, you have known already, how to create journal entry form using Form Wizard. But the result is a rough form of Journal Entry. We should reformat and add additional function in it. Now open form frmOpenTransactionJournalParent in design view, as depicted below:

Why We Should Use Parent and Child Table to Make a Journal Entry Form

There are several ways to create a table for recording transaction journal. Several software developers like to make a table that contains all the required fields in a single table of the journal, some other divide the table in 2 parts: the parent table and the child table. In essence, these two types of tables will give the same results. But in the process they are different.