As it seems, many people have gone through this problem that I am going through also..
You have to grab the end of an existing database and climb your way through it, learning how the programmer wrote it all!!
Heres my question, there is a switchboard at startup, it has various subforms connected to it, so I went into design view to add a new commandbutton and text box! so it seems the others are there with their respective command buttons, but no text... so i did further invesigating, and found a form called "switchboard items" contained in this are
Switchboard id, itemnumber, itemtext, command, arguement and heading, each has various data in it, each switchboard ID pertains to the buttons on the form.
this is quite a quirky form to me, i have never seen one like this before.. so i added a new switchboard id of 5.
I am now on my form trying to add this so called swichboard id, ive tried naming the text box in the next sequence of numbers (being 9) and they all seem to point to an onclick function "=HandleButtonClick(8)".
i am completely baffled as to how this works on the switchboard and table!!! i have tried adding it onto the form by itself, and it will work, but when i go into an option (e.g. enquries, and it will display a further 3 options, the command button i created is displayed!!!)
if you would like a sample of this db let me know, but i would love to figure out what this convention of "using a table with a switchboard" means!!!
thanks for reading my post,
brendan
You have to grab the end of an existing database and climb your way through it, learning how the programmer wrote it all!!
Heres my question, there is a switchboard at startup, it has various subforms connected to it, so I went into design view to add a new commandbutton and text box! so it seems the others are there with their respective command buttons, but no text... so i did further invesigating, and found a form called "switchboard items" contained in this are
Switchboard id, itemnumber, itemtext, command, arguement and heading, each has various data in it, each switchboard ID pertains to the buttons on the form.
this is quite a quirky form to me, i have never seen one like this before.. so i added a new switchboard id of 5.
I am now on my form trying to add this so called swichboard id, ive tried naming the text box in the next sequence of numbers (being 9) and they all seem to point to an onclick function "=HandleButtonClick(8)".
i am completely baffled as to how this works on the switchboard and table!!! i have tried adding it onto the form by itself, and it will work, but when i go into an option (e.g. enquries, and it will display a further 3 options, the command button i created is displayed!!!)
if you would like a sample of this db let me know, but i would love to figure out what this convention of "using a table with a switchboard" means!!!
thanks for reading my post,
brendan
