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    Resolved [RESOLVED] Calculate total number of tickets

    Hi,

    I wrote this code based off a school assignment I had last year which, was in Oracle. However, I can't figure out how to calculate the total number of tickets regardless of whether a ticket is added or subtracted.

    vb Code:
    1. Dim person_table As person_type
    2. Dim staff_table As staff_type
    3. Dim customer_table As customer_type
    4. Dim address_table As address_type
    5. Dim resavation_table As resavation_type
    6. Dim station_table As station_type
    7. Dim ticket_table(2) As ticket_type
    8. Dim ticket() As Variant
    9.  
    10. Private Type person_type
    11. personID As Integer
    12. firstName As String
    13. lastName As String
    14. dob As Date
    15. email As String
    16. phone As String
    17. End Type
    18.  
    19. Private Type staff_type
    20. PTID As person_type
    21. staffID As Long
    22. password As String
    23. End Type
    24.  
    25. Private Type customer_type
    26. PTID As person_type
    27. gender As String
    28. title As String
    29. End Type
    30.  
    31. Private Type address_type
    32. addressID As Integer
    33. street As String
    34. suburb As String
    35. postcode As String
    36. cState As String
    37. addressType As String
    38. personREF As person_type
    39. End Type
    40.  
    41. Private Type resavation_type
    42. resavationID As Integer
    43. customerID As String
    44. resavataionDate  As Date
    45. resavationStatus As String
    46. carriageID As Integer
    47. serviceID As Integer
    48. addressType As String
    49. dateofService As Date
    50. customerREF As customer_type
    51. End Type
    52.  
    53. Private Type station_type
    54. stationID As Integer
    55. stationName As String
    56. ResavationRef As resavation_type
    57. End Type
    58.  
    59. Private Type ticket_type
    60. ticketID As Integer
    61. travellerName As String
    62. resavationID As Integer
    63. stationStart As Integer
    64. stationEnd As Integer
    65. discountID As Integer
    66. carriageID As Integer
    67. seatID As Integer
    68. carriageID1 As Integer
    69. serviceID As Integer
    70. dateofService As Date
    71. stationRef As station_type
    72. End Type
    73.  
    74. Private Sub Form_Load()
    75. Dim tickets As String
    76. person_table.personID = 1
    77. person_table.firstName = "Bob"
    78. person_table.lastName = "Smith"
    79. person_table.dob = 12 - April - 1971
    80. person_table.email = "bobsmith@optus.com"
    81. person_table.phone = "86754345"
    82. MsgBox (person_table.firstName & ", " & person_table.lastName & ", " & person_table.dob & ", " & person_table.email & ", " & person_table.phone)
    83. staff_table.PTID.firstName = "Thomas"
    84. staff_table.PTID.lastName = "Travis"
    85. staff_table.PTID.dob = 22 - Feb - 1982
    86. staff_table.PTID.phone = "22278889"
    87. staff_table.staffID = 78656
    88. staff_table.password = "tfrsewrd"
    89. address_table.addressID = 1
    90. address_table.street = "Wilson St"
    91. address_table.suburb = "Prospect"
    92. address_table.postcode = "5082"
    93. address_table.cState = "SA"
    94. address_table.addressType = "Unit"
    95. address_table.personREF.personID = 1
    96. resavation_table.resavationID = 1
    97. resavation_table.customerID = 1
    98. resavation_table.resavataionDate = 1 - Jan - 2000
    99. resavation_table.resavationStatus = "T"
    100. resavation_table.carriageID = 965
    101. resavation_table.serviceID = 276
    102. resavation_table.dateofService = 27 - July - 2011
    103. resavation_table.customerREF.PTID.personID = 1
    104. station_table.stationID = 1
    105. station_table.stationName = "Adelaide"
    106. station_table.ResavationRef.resavationID = 1
    107.  
    108. ticket = Array("0", "1", "2")
    109. For i = LBound(ticket) To UBound(ticket)
    110. ticket_table(ticket(0)).travellerName = "Bob Smith"
    111. ticket_table(ticket(0)).resavationID = 297
    112. ticket_table(ticket(0)).stationStart = 1
    113. ticket_table(ticket(0)).stationEnd = 3
    114. ticket_table(ticket(0)).discountID = 5
    115. ticket_table(ticket(0)).carriageID = 27
    116. ticket_table(ticket(0)).seatID = 1
    117. ticket_table(ticket(0)).carriageID1 = 7
    118. ticket_table(ticket(0)).dateofService = 5 - Dec - 2000
    119. ticket_table(ticket(0)).stationRef.stationID = 1
    120. ticket_table(0).ticketID = 1
    121. ticket_table(ticket(1)).ticketID = 2
    122. ticket_table(ticket(2)).ticketID = 3
    123. tickets = (ticket_table(i).ticketID)
    124. Next i
    125. MsgBox ("Total number of tickets = " + tickets)
    126. End Sub

    This is the first time I have tried to use types in Visual Basic too.

    Thanks,


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    Re: Calculate total number of tickets

    What exactly "total number of tickets" means? Isn't UBound(ticket) return the "total number of tickets"?

    You should declare tickets as integer not as string and replace the line
    vb Code:
    1. tickets = (ticket_table(i).ticketID)
    with
    vb Code:
    1. tickets += (ticket_table(i).ticketID)



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    Re: Calculate total number of tickets

    The total number of tickets are suppose to represent the number sold.

    I tried putting type ticket_type into an array but I didn't have much success. That is what those two lines,

    vb Code:
    1. Dim ticket_table(2) As ticket_type
    2. Dim ticket() As Variant

    are suppose to do.

    If I change "tickets" datatype from string to integer I receive a typemismatch error on this line,

    vb Code:
    1. MsgBox ("Total number of tickets = " + tickets)
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    Re: Calculate total number of tickets

    Quote Originally Posted by Nightwalker83 View Post
    The total number of tickets are suppose to represent the number sold.
    Declare a module level variable to keep track of sold tickets.

    Quote Originally Posted by Nightwalker83 View Post
    If I change "tickets" datatype from string to integer I receive a typemismatch error on this line,

    vb Code:
    1. MsgBox ("Total number of tickets = " + tickets)
    I don't talk about tickets data type but about the variable declared at the beginning of Form_Load



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    Re: Calculate total number of tickets

    Yeah, I used this

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    1. MsgBox ("Total number of tickets = " + CStr(tickets))

    instead of casting tickets to string. That is casting to integer like you said.
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    Re: Calculate total number of tickets

    The type mismatch is likely caused by you using the arithmetic plus (+) instead of the string operator concatenate (&). Just replace + with &.
    Last edited by Lenggries; Apr 24th, 2012 at 11:33 AM. Reason: typo

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    Re: Calculate total number of tickets

    Code:
        Dim person_table As person_type
        Dim staff_table As staff_type
        Dim customer_table As customer_type
        Dim address_table As address_type
        Dim resavation_table As resavation_type
        Dim station_table As station_type
        Dim ticket_table(2) As ticket_type
        Dim ticket() As Variant
         
        Private Type person_type
            personID As Integer
            firstName As String
            lastName As String
            dob As Date
            email As String
            phone As String
        End Type
         
        Private Type staff_type
            PTID As person_type
            staffID As Long
            password As String
        End Type
         
        Private Type customer_type
            PTID As person_type
            gender As String
            title As String
        End Type
         
        Private Type address_type
            addressID As Integer
            street As String
            suburb As String
            postcode As String
            cState As String
            addressType As String
            personREF As person_type
        End Type
         
        Private Type resavation_type
            resavationID As Integer
            customerID As String
            resavataionDate  As Date
            resavationStatus As String
            carriageID As Integer
            serviceID As Integer
            addressType As String
            dateofService As Date
            customerREF As customer_type
        End Type
         
        Private Type station_type
            stationID As Integer
            stationName As String
            ResavationRef As resavation_type
        End Type
         
        Private Type ticket_type
            ticketID As Integer
            travellerName As String
            resavationID As Integer
            stationStart As Integer
            stationEnd As Integer
            discountID As Integer
            carriageID As Integer
            seatID As Integer
            carriageID1 As Integer
            serviceID As Integer
            dateofService As Date
            stationRef As station_type
        End Type
        
        Private Tickets() As ticket_type
         
        Private Sub Form_Load()
        
        With person_table
            .personID = 1
            .firstName = "Bob"
            .lastName = "Smith"
            .dob = 12 - April - 1971
            .email = "bobsmith@optus.com"
            .phone = "86754345"
        
            MsgBox (.firstName & ", " & .lastName & ", " & .dob & ", " & .email & ", " & .phone)
        End With
        
        With staff_table
            .PTID.firstName = "Thomas"
            .PTID.lastName = "Travis"
            .PTID.dob = 22 - Feb - 1982
            .PTID.phone = "22278889"
            .staffID = 78656
            .password = "tfrsewrd"
        End With
        
        With address_table
            .addressID = 1
            .street = "Wilson St"
            .suburb = "Prospect"
            .postcode = "5082"
            .cState = "SA"
            .addressType = "Unit"
            .personREF.personID = 1
        End With
        
        With resavation_table
            .resavationID = 1
            .customerID = 1
            .resavataionDate = 1 - Jan - 2000
            .resavationStatus = "T"
            .carriageID = 965
            .serviceID = 276
            .dateofService = 27 - July - 2011
            .customerREF.PTID.personID = 1
        End With
            
        With station_table
            .stationID = 1
            .stationName = "Adelaide"
            .ResavationRef.resavationID = 1
        End With
         
        ReDim Preserve Tickets(3)
        
           With Tickets(1)
                .ticketID = 1
                .travellerName = "Bob Smith"
                .resavationID = 297
                .stationStart = 1
                .stationEnd = 3
                .discountID = 5
                .carriageID = 27
                .seatID = 1
                .carriageID1 = 7
                .dateofService = 5 - Dec - 2000
                .stationRef.stationID = 1
            End With
            
            With Tickets(2)
                .ticketID = 2
                'other data here
            End With
            
            With Tickets(3)
                .ticketID = 3
                'other data here
            End With
            
         
        MsgBox ("Total number of tickets = " & UBound(Tickets))
        
        End Sub
    Assuming that the code you posted was intended to be illustrative, it should look more like the above. i.e. I have shown how to use an array of type 'ticket_type'. Of course, you wouldn't populate that array as I have illustrated. Rather, you would use a procedure or a function called 'create_ticket' or 'issue_ticket' and add each element there...

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    Re: Calculate total number of tickets

    Thanks Colin! That looks like what I want to do although, there is still the problem of if a ticket hasn't been bought (set) the code would still return the size of the defined array rather than the count of the objects in the array.

    For example:

    Say ticket 1 had been bought and also ticket 3 but ticket 2 was left unsold at the moment

    vb Code:
    1. MsgBox ("Total number of tickets = " & UBound(Tickets))

    the message box would display 3 instead of 2 because that what the size of the array was defined as rather than the number of objects actually in the array which is 2.
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    Re: Calculate total number of tickets

    Night

    I'm jumping in for the ride. Like you, I have not worked
    with Types before either.

    Let me focus on 2 segments of your code .. which I
    excerpted from Colin's post.

    Declarations
    Code:
    Dim station_table As station_type
    Dim ticket_table(2) As ticket_type
    Dim ticket() As Variant
    '
    Private Type station_type
        stationID As Integer
        stationName As String
        ResavationRef As resavation_type
    End Type
    Sub ... from Colin
    Code:
    Private Sub Form_Load()
        With station_table
            .stationID = 1
            .stationName = "Adelaide"
            .ResavationRef.resavationID = 1
        End With
        ReDim Preserve Tickets(3)
        With Tickets(1)
             .ticketID = 1
             .travellerName = "Bob Smith"
             .resavationID = 297
             .stationStart = 1
             .stationEnd = 3
             .discountID = 5
             .carriageID = 27
             ' ..... other data here
         End With       
         With Tickets(2)
             .ticketID = 2
             ' ..... other data here
         End With        
         With Tickets(3)
             .ticketID = 3
             ' ..... other data here
         End With      
         MsgBox ("Total number of tickets = " & UBound(Tickets))
    End Sub
    A few observations .. mainly questions as I'm new at this too
    1. why is ticket_table(2) dim'd as an array? .. the other Types aren't.
    2. why isn't there a Private Type ticket_table declaration?
    3. where do Tickets(1), ..(2), ..(3) come from? .. not declared anywhere
    4. to deal with your "unsold ticket 2" issue, you might need a loop


    EDIT:

    I thought I'd give your OP another look-see ...

    Sub ... excerpted from your OP
    Code:
    Private Sub Form_Load()
        Dim tickets As String
        ticket = Array("0", "1", "2")
        For i = LBound(ticket) To UBound(ticket)
            ticket_table(ticket(0)).travellerName = "Bob Smith"
            ticket_table(ticket(0)).resavationID = 297
            ticket_table(ticket(0)).stationStart = 1
            ticket_table(ticket(0)).stationEnd = 3
            ticket_table(ticket(0)).discountID = 5
            ticket_table(ticket(0)).carriageID = 27
            ticket_table(ticket(0)).seatID = 1
            ticket_table(ticket(0)).carriageID1 = 7
            ticket_table(ticket(0)).dateofService = 5 - Dec - 2000
            ticket_table(ticket(0)).stationRef.stationID = 1
            ticket_table(0).ticketID = 1
            ticket_table(ticket(1)).ticketID = 2
            ticket_table(ticket(2)).ticketID = 3
            tickets = (ticket_table(i).ticketID)
        Next i
        MsgBox ("Total number of tickets = " + tickets)
    End Sub
    Most of my earlier questions remain.

    Spoo
    Last edited by Spoo; Apr 24th, 2012 at 08:55 PM.

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    Re: Calculate total number of tickets

    OK, my misunderstanding, there. I see from your earlier code that you will only populate traveller_name, reservation_id, etc once a ticket is sold, correct?

    If so, you will need to loop through the tickets array identifying for yourself where that is the case and determine the total sold by via code. Obviously, if your data types were physically held in a database, you would do this via a query.

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    Re: Calculate total number of tickets

    Quote Originally Posted by Spoo View Post
    Night


    A few observations .. mainly questions as I'm new at this too
    1. why is ticket_table(2) dim'd as an array? .. the other Types aren't.
    2. why isn't there a Private Type ticket_table declaration?
    3. where do Tickets(1), ..(2), ..(3) come from? .. not declared anywhere
    4. to deal with your "unsold ticket 2" issue, you might need a loop

    Spoo

    Spoo, seems our posts crossed! To answer your quesions:

    1- that code is not needed any more. I mistakenly forgot to delete that line and the one below, i.e.

    Dim ticket_table(2) As ticket_type
    Dim ticket() As Variant

    2 The ticket_type 'table' is a data structure that holds information about a ticket. It is just a definition, nothing more. In code, we declare an array (in my example 'tickets', declared further down) that will hold a collection of tickets; i.e. each element of the array 'ticket' is of the type 'ticket_type'

    3 They are declared (in my code example) in Form_Load. i.e. ReDim Preserve Tickets(3)

    4 Yes, he'll need a loop as per his design

    Cheers!

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    Re: Calculate total number of tickets

    Colin

    OK, thanks.

    Yes, in the interim I took a look at Type statement in MSDN,
    and now sort of get it .. they are "more detailed" kinds of variable names,
    grouped per definition, and may also be arrays. Cool.

    Spoo

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    Re: Calculate total number of tickets

    Yeah, kinda like how a database table looks, in many ways. In fact you could read a record-set into an array (or collection, if memory serves) of a given data-type and then close the database if that were your desire...

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    Re: Calculate total number of tickets

    Spoo,

    The array is meant to hold the data for the ticket_type although, I can't figure out how to put ticket_type into an array. The lines of code I posted in post #3 can be removed from the code since they only have to do with finding the total number of tickets and not the types themselves.

    Colin,

    Yes, I know they need to go in a loop but I don't which object to put in?
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    Re: Calculate total number of tickets

    Nightwalker,

    Continuing with the database analogy, you could avoid using a loop if you have a 'Booking' data type that cross-references tickets to Customers.

    i.e.

    Code:
    Private Type Booking
        CustomerID as Long
        TicketID as Long
    End Type
    Then you could use an array of Bookings, the Ubound of which would be tickets sold...

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    Re: Calculate total number of tickets

    Night

    The array is meant to hold the data for the ticket_type although, I can't figure out how to put ticket_type into an array.
    Maybe something like this ..

    Declarations
    Code:
    Private Type ticket_table
        travellerName As String    ' "Bob Smith"
        resavationID As Integer    ' 297
        stationStart As Integer    ' 1
        stationEnd As Integer      ' 3
        discountID As Integer      ' 5
        carriageID As Integer      ' 27
        seatID As Integer          ' 1
        carriageID1 As Integer     ' 7
        dateofService As String    ' 5 - Dec - 2000
        stationRef As String       ' 1
    End Type
    Sub
    Code:
    ' declare an array of user-defined Type
    Dim Tickets(100) As ticket_table
    ' populate (1)
    Tickets(1).travellerName =  "Bob Smith"
    Tickets(1).resavationID = 297
    Tickets(1).stationStart = 1
    Tickets(1).stationEnd = 3
        < .. more .. >
    ' populate (2)
        < .. none .. >
    ' populate (3)
    Tickets(3).travellerName =  "Nob Smith"
    Tickets(3).resavationID = 299
    Tickets(3).stationStart = 1
    Tickets(3).stationEnd = 3
        < .. more .. >
    ' count tickets issued
    nn = 0
    For ii = 1 to 100
        If Tickets(ii).travellerName <> Empty Then
            nn = nn + 1
        End If
    Next ii
    Kind of crudely crafted, but I think it conveys the concept.

    EDIT:

    The key here the first line in the Sub .. declaring the array Tickets
    as an array of a user-defined Type, namely, ticket_table. That then
    facilitates counting via the loop.

    Spoo
    Last edited by Spoo; Apr 26th, 2012 at 09:42 PM.

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    Re: Calculate total number of tickets

    Yup, Spoo, that will do it. But having empty array elements causes unnecessary redundancy, hence the suggestion to have a bookings structure instead as per my earlier post...

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    Re: Calculate total number of tickets

    Well, the image in the first post here shows all the tables that are in the whole system (although, not all of them were required for the assignment originally).

    @ Colin,

    See as a ticket would normally only be on a one to one basis I guess I would populate the booking type fields with the data that is already in the required fields from the other two types?
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    Re: Calculate total number of tickets

    My example of a booking structure was only an illustration. If your data contains other inforamtion that relates one-to-one to a given booking then it should also be added to the booking type and removed from any other data-type


    i.e.

    Private Type Booking
    Customer_Id as long
    TicketID as Long
    BookingDate as Long
    CarriageID as Long/String/whatever
    SeatNo as Long/String/whatever
    Paid as Boolean
    etc.
    etc.
    End Type

    i.e. a Booking 'entry' only contains the information about that single relationship between a customer and the ticket he has purchased; no more, no less.

    Forgive me if I have not bothered to check whether these are all valid as per your design, I'm just trying to equip you with the necessary knowledge to complete your task...

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    Re: Calculate total number of tickets

    What? That stuff has nothing to do with I am trying to do. Besides I already have most of that in Ticket type. As far as I can tell all I need is say 1 person holds 1 ticket and calculate the total. I think it is assumed that the ticket has already been purchased. Although, I can't remember since it based off an assignment I did last year.

    This is what the query would be if it were an Oracle database:

    Code:
    create or replace type body resavation_type is
       member function num_of_tickets return 
       number is N number;
       begin
           select count(T.TicketID) into N from table_ticket T where
    	   deref(T.resavationID) = self;
           return N;
       end num_of_tickets;
    end;
    /
    My question is instead of using a database to hold the information, could I use a variable and calculate the total from that, if so, how?
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    Re: Calculate total number of tickets

    Doesn't Post #16 answer that ?

    In Spoo's example you would, for instance, populate the 'Tickets' variable from your Tickets Table and run through a loop counting the entries where the ReservationID matches whatever you're looking for
    Code:
    For ii = 1 to 100
        If Tickets(ii).ReservationID = strSelf Then
            nn = nn + 1
        End If
    Next ii
    MsgBox "Number of Tickets with ReservationID = " & strSelf & " is " & CStr(nn)

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    Re: Calculate total number of tickets

    @ Doogle,

    Yes, that is exactly what I want! I forgot to test the code and mark this thread "Resolved" as now it has been.
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    Re: [RESOLVED] Calculate total number of tickets

    Sorry, thought you were trying to design a system too. Hence my suggestion...

    I mean, seriously, your database design seems very odd! What is a ticket? According to your design it looks like it's the availability of a seat on a given train from a Start Station to a Destination Station. But how can you say that a ticket is unsold for a Start-Station to End-Station journey when a customer may not want to start and end at your pre-defined points? Only the SOLD tickets would have start and end points, surely!!!! In other words, you cannot infer unsold tickets from that design. This is because a given seat can yield several tickets...

    Never mind, you seem happy now anyway...

    EDIT:

    I just looked in detail at the database design in your link above. The ticket table in the database looks like it was intended to work exactly as I describe above. Because of that, you have no requirement that I can see to create data of type ticket_type where the traveller is not known and, therefore, the count of tickets sold should be the upper bound of the tickets array.

    In other words, your database table called ticket is ONLY intended to store SOLD tickets, it seems. My suggestion for a Booking data type arose from an understanding that you needed to link data about available tickets to customers...
    Last edited by ColinE66; Apr 26th, 2012 at 12:05 PM.

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    Re: [RESOLVED] Calculate total number of tickets

    Well, I might have missed a table or two off that diagram I posted! I will ask my lecturer on Monday and see if he still has the solution to the assignment so I can find out whether there was a booking type or not.
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    Re: [RESOLVED] Calculate total number of tickets

    No probs. The solution posted by Spoo will work if you intend to populate your ticket array with both sold and unsold tickets, although un-sold tickets is, as I say, a bit of a misnomer since a seat can be sold several times from the start to finish of a train's journey. At least, in real-life that is the case ;-)

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