Object Folders in Access

[Guest]

Hello,

It would be great if Access allowed you to make folders in the database
window. In other words, when looking at the 'tables' view in the main
database window of an MDB file, you see a list of all the tables that the
database holds or is linked to. It would be nice to be able to put folders
in that view, so that you could group the tables by relevance.

Suppose you have a bunch of reports that involve managing the database, and
a bunch of other ones that are intended for general users - then you could
have a folder called 'Management' and another called 'Users'. Or if you have
one for products and another for sales - so on and so forth.

Regards,
aoeusnth

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[G. Vaught]

That is why you come up with a convention in naming. For example if you have
Sales Reports for Users you name the report to imply it is a Sales report
for Users: rptUserSalesReport vs. rptMgtSalesReport.

qryUser... qryMgt.
If you keep this naming convention then all your queries, reports etc will
be grouped and would not need Folders.

I really doubt Access will ever be able to create folders because its a
database program not a Windows browser program.

 

[Guest]

I agree 100%!! If you have a large database it would be very helpful to be
able to assign tables, queries or reports to folders. I always name my
queries and reports with the descriptive name, but there can be a lot of them
and with a complex database with several data entry screens, it is an awful
lot to wade through. Initially when I started using Access I thought the
folders under "Groups" would do this, but was dissappointed when I realized
it just made a copy....

Thanks.