Forms Default View When Opened from Switchboard

[Steve]

I have my switch board open up a form but the form is not
opening up into the default view that i defined in the
properties. How can I get the form to open up into a
different view other than single form view when using
switchboard to open the form?

 

[Jeff Conrad]

Hi Steve,

Are you trying to open up a form in Datasheet View from the
bulit-in Access Switchboard Manager?

If so, you have three options (at least) available to you.

1. You could make your form into a Continuous Form and
design it so it *looks* just like a datasheet. Then open
it in Edit mode from the Switchboard.

2. You could design your own "Switchboard-type" form and
launch all your procedures from there. Most, if not all, experts
prefer to build their own unbound forms for this purpose and
avoid using the Switchboard Manager.

3. You can change the Switchboard code a little bit to
achieve your desired result. The Switchboard automatically
will open a form in Single view. If you change the code to
datasheet view then ALL forms will open in Datasheet view
launched from the Switchboard which is probably not a good thing.
If you would like to have the best of both worlds, follow these
instructions on a BACK-UP COPY.

Open the Switchboard code. Find the area that has this:

' Constants for the commands that can be executed.
Const conCmdGotoSwitchboard = 1
Const conCmdOpenFormAdd = 2
Const conCmdOpenFormBrowse = 3
Const conCmdOpenReport = 4
Const conCmdCustomizeSwitchboard = 5
Const conCmdExitApplication = 6
Const conCmdRunMacro = 7
Const conCmdRunCode = 8

Add one more line to the list like this:

Const conCmdOpenFormDatasheet = 9

Now go a little further down the code until you come to
this area:

' Run code.
Case conCmdRunCode
Application.Run rst![Argument]

' Any other command is unrecognized.
Case Else
MsgBox "Unknown option."

In between these two areas we want to add another one for
datasheet view. Add in this new code in the middle so it
looks like this:

' Run code.
Case conCmdRunCode
Application.Run rst![Argument]

' Open a form in Datasheet Mode.
Case conCmdOpenFormDatasheet
DoCmd.OpenForm rst![Argument], acFormDS

' Any other command is unrecognized.
Case Else
MsgBox "Unknown option."

Compile and save the form.

Now you will NOT be able to use the Switchboard Wizard to
use this option. The Wizard will only use the 8 pre-
defined options. To open a form in Datasheet View you will
need to go directly to the Switchboard Items TABLE and add
it yourself. If you study the records you will figure out
what is going on. Just use the number 9 in the Command
field to open a form in datasheet view and showing all
records.

 

[fredg]

I have my switch board open up a form but the form is not
opening up into the default view that i defined in the
properties. How can I get the form to open up into a
different view other than single form view when using
switchboard to open the form?

What view do you want to open it in?

 

[Guest]

Do you know the switchboard manager tool
The tool is easy to make the switchboard and you can try it
Go to (tool/Database Utilities/Switchboard manager)

And you want to pop up a switchboard
go to (Tool/Start Up/ Display form/page)
Then, you can change the pop up form page.