Display Customer's Last Contact & Order Dates

In this Microsoft Access tutorial, I will show you how to display a customer's last contact date and last order date directly in the customer form and customer list form. We'll cover using the DMAX function for single forms and creating aggregate queries for continuous forms to efficiently display these dates.

Jake from Dayton, Ohio (a Platinum Member) asks: I'd like to be able to open a customer record and see their last contact date without having to open the contact form. The same goes for their last order date. And if I could see both of those on the customer list form as well, that would be fantastic. What's the best way to do this in Microsoft Access?

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Prerequisites

• DMax
• Aggregate Query
• Outer Joins

Links

• NZ Function
• Alias
• Not Updateable
• ISO Date Format

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