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Putting something on the switchboard
I have created my switchboard, but how do I get the information to show up on
it?? Do I do that in the design view? |
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On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 07:55:09 -0800, Jenn Connors wrote:
I have created my switchboard, but how do I get the information to show up on it?? Do I do that in the design view? What switchboard? The one created by the built-in Switchboard Manager? One you created yourself? What information do you want to show up? Why on a Switchboard and not on a regular data form? Regardless, Yes! you would do it in Design View. -- Fred Please only reply to this newsgroup. I do not reply to personal email. |
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It's the one created by the built-in Switchboard Manager. How do I get the
buttons to work? "fredg" wrote: On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 07:55:09 -0800, Jenn Connors wrote: I have created my switchboard, but how do I get the information to show up on it?? Do I do that in the design view? What switchboard? The one created by the built-in Switchboard Manager? One you created yourself? What information do you want to show up? Why on a Switchboard and not on a regular data form? Regardless, Yes! you would do it in Design View. -- Fred Please only reply to this newsgroup. I do not reply to personal email. |
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On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 10:15:11 -0800, Jenn Connors wrote:
It's the one created by the built-in Switchboard Manager. How do I get the buttons to work? "fredg" wrote: On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 07:55:09 -0800, Jenn Connors wrote: I have created my switchboard, but how do I get the information to show up on it?? Do I do that in the design view? What switchboard? The one created by the built-in Switchboard Manager? One you created yourself? What information do you want to show up? Why on a Switchboard and not on a regular data form? Regardless, Yes! you would do it in Design View. -- Fred Please only reply to this newsgroup. I do not reply to personal email. Jenn, You and I are not on the same page with this. Your original post asked about getting information to show up on a switchboard. Now you're asking how to get the buttons to work. I have no idea where to go with this. Why not sit down and be more specific as to what you are trying to do, as my crystal ball is off on Monday's (and Tuesday through Sunday as well). -- Fred Please only reply to this newsgroup. I do not reply to personal email. |
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-----Original Message----- I have created my switchboard, but how do I get the information to show up on it?? Do I do that in the design view? . Hello Jean, I'm currently working on this very thing. I'll make myself a note to email you by the end of the week with a answer. Hold tight. |
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On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 07:55:09 -0800, Jenn Connors
wrote: I have created my switchboard, but how do I get the information to show up on it?? Do I do that in the design view? Jenn, you haven't given us much to work on but it sounds as if you haven't added any pages to your switchboard. Have you found the Tools-Addins (Database Utilities)-Switchboard Manager? That's where you add stuff. Read this and see if it helps ------------ Switchboard Manager ------------------------------- SwitchBoards - People either love them or hate them. we love them here and here's why. Don't dismiss them out of hand just because they're unfamiliar ... take a little time, it's a new trick you might like. If not, no problem. Switchboard IS just a bunch of Forms with command buttons, except that all the coding has already been done for you - and when you look behind the form, you'll see just how much! What the Switchboard Manager does is allow you to quickly and easily add, delete or modify the buttons on your Form(s). It produces a user interface that is intuitive to the user. It can be modified in 30 seconds if it's not intuitive. Lastly, it is difficult to mess it up. The Switchboard Manager allows you to build an unlimited number of related Menu Forms (some of ours go 7 levels deep). The interface is clear and understandable and all the hard coding (and there is a LOT of it) has been done for you. The key to it is understanding the way the Switchboard Manager works ... and I have to say, it takes a couple of hours to nut it out if you haven't been there. We have, so I happily pass on what we found in "about Switchboard". In addition, we have discovered an undocumented feature that transforms the clarity of the menus for users, see "Switchboard Menu Naming" below. --------- about Switchboard ------------------ Switchboards will only take a maximum of 8 entries on each page. We consider this too many options to present a user with and so we try to limit the options on any one page to 4 or 5 for clarity of understanding and use. This means that on each switchboard the buttons are most likely to take you to another sub-switchboard. Some of our systems go 7 deep like this in a logical progression. As soon as you get the mental picture of how it all works, it becomes incredibly useful and incredibly easy to develop with. One of the keys to understanding how switchboard interface works is realising that when you go into Switchboard Manager the first pane that you see contains ALL the switchboard forms of your menu system. They are listed alphabetically but show none of the relationships about which one belongs to which other one. From the opening pane in Switchboard Manager you have to do two things- create all of the new Switchboards you think you'll need right there in the main pane of Switchboard Manager and THEN - edit each Switchboard Form that your new switchboards are going to be called from and add them as button items Then there are a couple of design niceties that work well ... - We have found that our designs work because the last button(s) on every switchboard menu page is a "- Back to {previous switchboard}". So once switchboard is open you can go forward and back just clicking buttons - Make the Switchboard Form properties so that the form can't be closed (Form-Design-Properties-Format-Close Button = No) Switchboard gets some bad press in this group and I suspect that it's mainly because some people have struggled to understand it - as did I. But now we can make it dance to our tune, we would use nothing else. ------------ Switchboard Menu Naming ------------------------------- There is an undocumented trick with Menu Page Naming that suddenly transforms the visual referencing of all Switchboard Menus One of the frustrating things about the standard Switchboard Form is that no matter what menu in the tree you are in, the Caption on every single page reads the same, like "My Company Menu System". This is just nuts when you happen to be in the "Employee Records" menu. We've found a way around it where the title of the menu page you are in is displayed at the top. All of a sudden, the system makes sense. You only have to do this once after the Form has been created and then it works on every existing menu page and every new one you create. - Open the Switchboard Form in design view - Delete the big Label control at the top "[Label1]" and its shadow "[Label2]" - Replace it with a TextBox and set the font's & colours you want - make the ControlSource = ItemText Done. This will insert the title of that page at the top of each menu as you migrate through. The ItemText value is that which you see in the first pane of the Switchboard Manager. It is the name you gave that page when you created it. You can see and modify that name in the Switchboard table. This is so simple, I just think that its something MS overlooked and haven't been made aware of since. Brett Cheers, Brett ---------------------------------------------- Be adventurous, be bold, be careful, be a star ---------------------------------------------- Brett Collings Business & Systems Analyst Management Information Systems Developer |
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