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Re: need table help

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From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Jan 19, 2005 8:53AM

> Axes. Given that each employee always has two employers, is there
> anything wrong with:
>
> Employee Name | Employee Status | Employer 1 Name | Employer 1 Status
> | Employer 2 Name | Employer 2 Status

The visual layout doesn't work as well with that much data on the y-axis.

For now, this is what I presently have:

employee | employer | employer
----------------------------------------------------
Employee Name | Employer 1 Name | Employer 2 Name
Status | Status | Status
----------------------------------------------------
(3 columns)

And I may leave it at that, since the status, when read out loud, will make
sense. (ie, "Bob Smith, inactive")

> That would be the most usable solution, given that you want person to
> be unique. I know that's not visibly what you were after, though to
> me your original sketch didn't make sense semantically unless you
> gave each record its own table and repeated the headers

Well, that's what I was trying to accomplish...a semantic structure based on
a particular visual layout. ;o)

> Incidentally, what kind of weird corporate structure is this? :)

Specifically, these are independant contractors who work for independant
companies.

-Darrel