L lead 27 Registered User. Local time Today, 03:46 Joined Mar 24, 2007 Messages 147 Feb 26, 2008 #1 Hi Can anyone tell me what the advantage (or difference) is in using a switchboard rather than just creating your own form and using command buttons etc? Thanks
Hi Can anyone tell me what the advantage (or difference) is in using a switchboard rather than just creating your own form and using command buttons etc? Thanks
RuralGuy AWF VIP Local time Today, 04:46 Joined Jul 2, 2005 Messages 13,819 Feb 26, 2008 #2 lead 27 said: Hi Can anyone tell me what the advantage (or difference) is in using a switchboard rather than just creating your own form and using command buttons etc? Thanks Click to expand... IMHO the only advantage is it gets a novice developer off and running with a switchboard. I've always found it better to create my own navigation system for the application.
lead 27 said: Hi Can anyone tell me what the advantage (or difference) is in using a switchboard rather than just creating your own form and using command buttons etc? Thanks Click to expand... IMHO the only advantage is it gets a novice developer off and running with a switchboard. I've always found it better to create my own navigation system for the application.
gemma-the-husky Super Moderator Staff member Local time Today, 11:46 Joined Sep 12, 2006 Messages 16,075 Feb 26, 2008 #3 the switchboard provided ofers some pleasant means to launch forms and reports in various modes. a single form switchboard is quite easily made, but the hierarchical menu structure of the MS switchboard menu would be quite hard to program directly.
the switchboard provided ofers some pleasant means to launch forms and reports in various modes. a single form switchboard is quite easily made, but the hierarchical menu structure of the MS switchboard menu would be quite hard to program directly.