lophp.blogg.se - october 2022

Now when you close your application and re-open it, your switchboard will open automatically. Under the OpenForm section change Form Name from Asset List to Switchboard (Figure 6). To change it, right click on AutoExec in the navigation pane under Macros and select Design. Since we are using a template from Microsoft it uses an “AutoExec” macro to open a form on startup. Click Current Database on the left side and under Display Form, select our switchboard (Figure 5). If we want Access to automatically open our switchboard when the application is opened, we can do this through a few different ways.įor a custom built application, you’ll want to go through Access options. Testing the Switchboard and Wrapping Upīack in the main application we can test the switchboard by navigating to Forms and opening the Switchboard form. Once you are happy with the results, click Close. If you need to rearrange the order in which the buttons appear, you can highlight an item and use the Move Up and Move Down buttons. Your switchboard page should look like Figure 4.ġ3. This time for the Command, we’ll choose Exit Application.ġ2. For the Exit button we’ll add another item. Repeat the steps to add the second report.ġ1. Under Report, select the report we want to display.ġ0. This time for the Command, we’ll choose report. Back at the Edit Switchboard page, click New and repeat the process to add our reports. Under Form we’ll choose the Asset List.ĩ. For the Command drop down, we’ll pick Open Form in Add mode.ħ. In this example we’ll call it “Asset List.”Ħ.

In the Edit Switchboard item page, give your switchboard button a label. On the Edit Switchboard page, click New.ĥ. The Switchboard Manager will open with a new default switchboard highlighted. Access will inform you that no switchboard was found – do we want to create a new one? Click Yes.ģ. Click the Switchboard Manager button we added to the quick access toolbar.Ģ.

Here’s how we create and add items to our switchboard:ġ.

A button that opens the Contact Address List report.

A button that opens the All Assets report.

A button that opens the Asset List form in Edit mode.

For this example we’ll add several switchboard buttons: The button will appear on the quick access toolbar next to the Undo\Redo buttons. Under “Choose commands from” select “Commands Note in the Ribbon.”īrowse the left list for Switchboard Manager and click Add (Figure 2). Click the small down arrow next to the Undo\Redo buttons. Next, we need to add a button to the ribbon to give us access to the Switchboard Manager. Click on Desktop Asset Tracking and click Create after first picking a location to save the database (Figure 1). Since we won’t have the time to build a database from scratch, we’ll use one of the Microsoft Access sample databases and modify it to have a switchboard. The first step will be to create a new database.