WILD CARE

Firstly what I did for my database was I named my database as ‘wild care’ as this is the project title. Then I used a

‘fields for the database’ sheet from the dida website to fill in all the field names and data types so that my database

will work when I import the data at the end.

FIELD NAMES AND DATA TYPES

The field names and data type collected from a fields for the database sheet.

The first field was ‘name of species’ for this data I left it under just ‘text’ this Is because the data sheet shows that it

is just unique data with no duplicates.

DATA TYPES: NAME OF SPECIES

For the second field ‘group’ I first went to ‘look up wizard’ and then I chose I will type in the values I want like this:

I then picked one column as all I will have to do now is list the species. These are bird/insect, mammal, fish or reptile/amphibian. After I listed

these in the column I got to pick what field name I wanted to place it in so I put it underneath ‘group’.

DATA TYPES: GROUP

The third field listed was ‘location’. It said it was just ‘in the world’ therefore for the data type I listed it as just ‘text’, as I don’t need to add any groups as there are no ‘locations’

listed.

DATA TYPES: LOCATION

For the fourth field ‘status’ I arranged it into a lookup wizard as the data type ‘status’ was coded with three

colours: red, orange and blue, I also arranged these into columns like I did for the data type ‘groups’ however I used

two columns as there are two columns for both the code and status which is: red - critically endangered, orange -

endangered and blue - at risk.

DATA TYPES: STATUS

For the fifth field ‘threat’ I arranged it into a lookup wizard as the data type ‘threat’ was coded with four codes: c, l, h or p. I also arranged these into columns like I did for the data type ‘status’. I used two columns as there are two

columns for both the code and threat which is: c – climate change, l – loss of habitat, h – hunting and p – predator. I

also had to change the validation rule so at the end when I insert the data it will all work and be put into the correct

columns. I changed the validation rule to: “C” Or “L” Or “H” Or “P”

DATA TYPES: THREAT

For the sixth field ‘web link’ I put it under the data type ‘hyperlink’ as this is the only one that will work because to access a web link you need a hyperlink. It has no validation

rule but I changed some of the general information. Required – No, Allow zero length – Yes, Indexed – No,

Unicode Compression – Yes.

DATA TYPES:

For the seventh and final field ‘adoption cost’ I put the data type as ‘currency’ as it is to do with money (£) and there

will be figures, In this column and data. I also changed the ‘general data’ to 2 decimal places.

DATA TYPES: ADOPTION COST

The last thing I had to do after filling out all the field names and data types was to import the data that I collected from

the dida wild care website, I then saved this file to my home drive and uploaded it into ‘access’.

IMPORTING DATA

DATA

For my data entry form I started off by including a: logo and a title, I made sure it had all the fields needed, features to

enter data and a key for coded fields. For my data entry form below, I have included: drop down boxes for validation

and a key for the status and threat codes.

DATA ENTRY FORM

To create a button for my data entry form I put it into design view, and clicked the button tab which opened these

boxes.

DATA ENTRY FORM

When I created my codes, I used the two tables for status and threat from the data fields sheet.

DATA ENTRY FORM

FINAL FORM

QUERY 1

RESULTS

QUERY 2

RESULTS

QUERY 3

RESULTS