Switchboard manager

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Lars Brownies

For my apps I've always made my own switchboards. Is there any benefit in
creating a switchboard using the built in switchboard manager? From articles
on the internet I don's see any.
Thanks
Lars
 
No. I rarely use the switchboard manager. Menus are just too easily made
without dealing with it.
 
For my apps I've always made my own switchboards. Is there any benefit in
creating a switchboard using the built in switchboard manager? From articles
on the internet I don's see any.
Thanks
Lars
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Nope, I avoid the switchboard manager. It's designed for people who
don't have the knowledge or skills to design their own menus/forms.

Keven Denen
 
Lars Brownies said:
For my apps I've always made my own switchboards. Is there any benefit in
creating a switchboard using the built in switchboard manager? From articles
on the internet I don's see any.
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I've always thought the Switchboard Manager was a complex solution to a
simple problem and the only times I have worked with it were when it had
been used to create the switchboard on a database that I inherited, and once
or twice as a demo for my user group. If I was going to be taking over
ongoing maintenance of an inherited database, one of the first things I
usually did was to create my own switchboards with forms and command
buttons. Every time I did, whoever took it over after me had a far easier
time following the logic and figuring out the navigation than if I'd left
the Switchboard Manager file and form-templates.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Office Access MVP
 
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