Having trouble with Relationships in Microsoft Access

Question

In the picture below, I'm wanting the relationship(s) between 'Employee', 'Emp_Proj' and 'Project' to be like those between 'Employee', 'Emp_Skill' and 'Skill'.

As it is currently, from the 'Employee' table I can view (by clicking the little '+' that appears in the 'Employee' record) any instances of 'Emp_Skill' associated with that 'Employee' and the description of the corresponding 'Skill'.

But, when trying to do the same thing with 'Employee', 'Emp_Proj' and 'Project', when I click on the '+' in the 'Employee' record, a dialogue box appears asking me to choose which 'subdatasheet' to insert.

Choosing any of the possible options means I can only ever view that one.

Is this a common, easily fixed, issue born of my inexperience with databases, or can it not be done?

Any help is very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance, AUS_Doug.

Answer 1

To show related data in table view was designed as a helper method to explore relationships. But is designed to show only one 'child' relation each time.

In my databases, I tend to disable the master/detail navegation, preciselly because Access ask the user what relation show. Instead of automatic relations in table views, I recomend you to use master/detail forms.