Sub-Switchboard design

[sendahook]

Hello,
I have created a main switchboard in Access 2002 that contains links to
sub-switchboards. My question is how do I change the layout design of
the main switchboard without affecting the design of the
sub-switchboards? I assume this can be done, just can't figure out
how. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Jeff Conrad]

Hello,
I have created a main switchboard in Access 2002 that contains links to
sub-switchboards. My question is how do I change the layout design of
the main switchboard without affecting the design of the
sub-switchboards? I assume this can be done, just can't figure out
how. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

If you are using the built-in Switchboard Manager then this would
be exceedingly difficult to do. The SBM uses ONE form for
everything. Through code it changes the options on the form
based on the menus you have created through the wizard. In
Design View, if you add/change something, the changes will
show on all sub-menus. You could show/hide various controls
through code based on the currently shown sub-menu, but
this would become very cumbersome. You might be better off
creating your own Switchboard-type main form and other forms
for the sub menus.