Activity 4 Evaluation
Stall holders email list
It’s fitness for audience and purpose:
The stallholders E-mail list was created on Microsoft Access which allows you to create and process data in a database. This email list would help organise the event due to fields present in the data base which gave pertinent information so that the organiser could depict which businesses were useful at the event. The database created had six most useful fields required to aid in the process of organising and making it significantly easy to use. The first field out of the six was the ID this was created using Auto number this essentially automatically generated a number and guaranteed that each business would have their own ID number this reduced confusion and mistakes occurring with businesses.
The second field was the name of the business was important for contact for example if the organiser wanted to contact a business it would be required to use the businesses name to allow the receiver to quickly understand the context of the email which in this case would have been if they were able to attend the event. The third field was the email address this for quick contact with the business and was the most important of all fields without it no contact would be made.
The fourth field was for the type of item that was going to be sold by the stall or the theme of the stall for this field I used the validation rule to insure specific and required data was entered for that subject and I revised the validation text to an apposite message which could be without difficulty read with the data validation it prevented erroneous data from arising and gave a quick notification to allow amends to be made; the items for validation were “upcycle recycle both”. The fifth field was weather the business was interested or not for this field I applied a combo box for which the only way of knowing which business was able to attend was by clicking and a tick would