Passwords for Switchboard Buttons?

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Nigel

Is there a simple way of setting a password option for a switchboard button?
All I find in this respect is user groups/accounts and I don't want to go
there because I am designing a system to be run on another network and do
not know which users will/won't use it.

Thanks
 
ULS is the best way to handle this, and it really doesn't matter if the
system will be run on another network - you can implement ULS on your
machine and ship the database and workgroup file to your other network (with
users, groups, group memberships, object permissions, etc already in place).
Be warned that ULS is quite tricky to learn and implement, and can add
several weeks to development time if you're learning from the ground up.

Perhaps this MS knowledgebase article will be helpful; it's geared towards
forms, but you can certainly adapt it to a button:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=209871
 
I like this reply but I am a noob and am struggling. I have worked through
it and have got it to a stage where the frmpassword looks and works fine but
seems to activate "2" on the switchboard which - if I have changed to
activate my frm password must surely be creating a feedback loop? I.e.
option 2 fires up frmpassword which in turn fires up frmpassword!!!

Therefore nothing is actually executing the original report that option 2
did without the password. I think I need to replace the switchboard option
2 in the VB code for frm password but I am new to code.

Any ideas?
 
Hi Nigel,

The instructions I have on my site work like this:
Say you have a main menu of options and another
Admin-type menu of options on a second sub-menu.
You would like to pop up a password form before
showing the sub-menu of Admin options. This exact
setup may not be exactly what you are looking for.

You might consider using these KB articles that Scott
pointed out:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=209871
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=179371

--
Jeff Conrad
Access Junkie - MVP
http://home.bendbroadband.com/conradsystems/accessjunkie.html
http://www.access.qbuilt.com/html/articles.html


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