Switchboard manager

[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

 

[Arvin Meyer [MVP]]

No. I rarely use the switchboard manager. Menus are just too easily made
without dealing with it.

 

[Keven Denen]

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

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]

Thanks guys for confirmation.
Lars

No. I rarely use the switchboard manager. Menus are just too easily made
without dealing with it.
--
Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
http://www.datastrat.com
http://www.mvps.org/access
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[Larry Linson]

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.

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