Switchboards within main switchboard

[Amman]

I'd like to have some switchboards buttons that goto new switchboard pages
within my main default switchboard. However, when I try to do it, I get the
same headers titles and text boxes as my main board. If I try to edit the
headers or boxes then it changes on my main board, and I don't want that to
happen. I want the switchboards to be independent. How do I do that?

 

[Pat Hartman\(MVP\)]

The switchboard form never changes no matter how many separate "menus" you
define. Each "menu" may have up to 8 items because that is the number of
physical buttons on the switchboard form. When the form opens, it reads the
top level switchboard and populates and unhides the necessary buttons. If
one of the buttons, is an option to open another switchboard, it gets the
necessary data from the switchboard items tables, populates the buttons, and
unhides all the ones it populated.
Examining the values in the Switchboard Items table may help you understand
how the form works.

 

[Van T. Dinh]

I think Jeff Conrad's tip:

http://home.bendbroadband.com/conradsystems/accessjunkie/switchboardfaq.html#caption

is what you want.

 

[Bob Miller]

If you want to have different headings and design for multiple
Switchbaords in an application you can build your own forms and add
buttons that perform like switchboard buttons. As a matter of fact,
you can roll-your-own single "switchboard" form with as many choices on
it as you want. Another alternative is to build a menubar and get rid
of the switchboards (which I have found to be cumbersome) altogether.
I make a splash screen form with the database name/purpose (e.g.
"Employee Management System") and keep it on the screen and use the
menubar for navigation.