What is a switchboard and what does it do in Access 2007?

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MellieM

I'm trying to figure out what a switchboard is and what it does. I've looked
in the tutorials, and online, and all I can find is how to build, edit, or
delete a switchboard, not what it is or does. I'm a fairly new Access user,
and I am so helplessly tech challenged it's kinda sad. Any help y'all could
provide would be extremely helpful and appreciated. Thanks!
 
MellieM said:
I'm trying to figure out what a switchboard is and what it does. I've
looked
in the tutorials, and online, and all I can find is how to build, edit, or
delete a switchboard, not what it is or does. I'm a fairly new Access
user,
and I am so helplessly tech challenged it's kinda sad. Any help y'all
could
provide would be extremely helpful and appreciated. Thanks!
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A switchboard is just a form used as menu of functions, where each function
is activated by a button. The switchboard form is opened automatically when
the database is opened, and normally either left open all the time or
automatically reopened when the user finished working with the selected
function.

Access's built-in Switchboard Manager helps to set up such a form, tying it
to a table of "switchboard items" that provides selections from a set of
standard, commonly used functions. However, there's nothing stopping you
from creating your own form, putting some command buttons on it, and
programming the Click events of those buttons to make your own menu of
functions, without needing any Switchboard Items table. That's what most
professional developers do, when they want to make a menu form.
 
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