Merging two switchboards

[Helentang04]

Hello Everyone,

I'm needing alittle help on my project. I am creating a retail shop
database with ACCESS where I have 12 tables, 11 forms, 14 queries and
6 Reports. Currently, I am having a problem with putting more than 8
items on the switchboard manager and pages becuase the max it is
giving me is just 8 slots including the exit application item.
Therefore, I have now created them on two switchboard forms however, I
could only make one default for one of them to work but I can not link
the other one. ( EX.. Switchboard 1 has button View form, "Go to
switchboard 2, Exit Application etc) However, I dont really know how
to make the link where I will be able to switch from one switchboard
to the other. Can anyone please help me out ?
Thanks very much

Sincerely,

Helen

 

[Fred's]

Hello Everyone,

I'm needing alittle help on my project. I am creating a retail shop
database with ACCESS where I have 12 tables, 11 forms, 14 queries and
6 Reports. Currently, I am having a problem with putting more than 8
items on the switchboard manager and pages becuase the max it is
giving me is just 8 slots including the exit application item.
Therefore, I have now created them on two switchboard forms however, I
could only make one default for one of them to work but I can not link
the other one. ( EX.. Switchboard 1 has button View form, "Go to
switchboard 2, Exit Application etc) However, I dont really know how
to make the link where I will be able to switch from one switchboard
to the other. Can anyone please help me out ?
Thanks very much

Sincerely,

Helen

Hi, The only option, I see will be to make a simple form and to add
set you own action buttons without the switchboard manager. Access
Switchboards have limits, but if you do like I say, you will not have
any limits.

Fred's

 

[Larry Linson]

Hi, The only option, I see will be to make
a simple form and to add set you own action
buttons without the switchboard manager.
Access Switchboards have limits, but if you
do like I say, you will not have any limits.

I'd have said it in stronger terms: "Lose the Switchboard Manager. Create
your own Switchboard Forms with unbound Forms using Command Buttons and
other Controls. The Switchboard Manager is a complex solution to a simple
problem, with built-in limitations, and little flexibility."

Just reading the newsgroups about Switchboards generated with the
Switchboard Manager seems to me to indicate that it caused more problems
than it solved.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP

 

[Guest]

You can have a button on your switchboard that opens the next layer down.
Post your contents of your Switchboard Items table and someone can help you
set up the layers.