Hi,
No not a table with 3 rows and '400' columns, but a table with 1 row and '1201' columns. The three first column would be dedicated to the Id, the remaining rows would be filled in with the test scores.
My original posting here might need more explicating; the data are currently being collected using a table underlying a data entry form and the table is designed to collect the data with the following structure.
Id Cycle Day Test_Date Test_A Test_B Test_C
A 1 1 mm/dd/yy # # #
A 1 2 mm/dd/yy # # #
A 1 3 mm/dd/yy # # #
B 1 1 mm/dd/yy # # #
C 1 1 mm/dd/yy # # #
C 1 2 mm/dd/yy # # #
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As you see above we have some fixed (in this case three lab tests: A, B and C - their exact names and number of lab tests in the real application would be quite different, butlways the same). We have Patient Id as another col in the table along with Cycle and Day. About these last two: Cycle and Day have maxima in any one database; so as a max the number of Cycles per Id might be 4 and the number of Days per combo of Id and Cyle (i.e. within each Cycle) might be maxed out at 28. Thing is not every Id can be counted on to give the max number of visits (each unique pairing of Cycle and Day comprises a visit). This is probably 'obvious', but 'mm/dd/yy' is a standin for some real calendar date which is entered into the table to reflect when the laboratory specimen was collected (i.e. the date the Id showed up at a clinic).
One way of getting what I want would probably involve creating an MS A2K Table which had Col 1 allocated to the Id parameter. The 2nd through whatever columns would be appear in logical clusters of 3 (because in this example there are 3 'Tests') and the column headers would be a paring of the Visit Date and Test name, e.g. '01/01/02-Test_A', etc. When viewing these data, the user would 'freeze' the leftmost column and use the horizontal scroll bar to view the lab data overtime.
I started out wanting to generate a form which could display the reorganized data structure by having a single form per Id which would allow the user to scroll across the page in order to view each Id's lab test scores on any given visit date. The form would be custom designed....using the design view, the form would be specific to a single Id (which would appear just once upon it). As I envisaged it, it would look like a matrix/table. The titles/labels of each column after the first one would be filled in with the Visit Date. Below each column having a isit Date would be a column of lab test scores collected on that Date. The left most column on the form would be titled 'Lab Test Name' and have below it (to use the names in my current example): 'Test A' followed by 'Test B' and lastly below the two above you'd have 'Test C'.
This design is after giving some more thought to the way the viewer probably wants to see those lab scores.
Hope this helps clear the air a bit.
Apologies for any typos.