Switchboards, Navigation Forms, Menu Forms

In this video, I will show you how to create a Switchboard, a Navigation Form, and my personal favorite method of navigating around a database which is to create custom Menu Forms. Plus, I'll show you a cool special trick for your Menu Form navigation.

Charlotte from Auckland, New Zealand (a Platinum Member) asks: What is the best way to create an interface for my users to navigate the different forms and reports in my database? Switchboard? Navigation Forms? Something else?

Members

Members will learn how to open forms directly to the right, or underneath the parent form. This is handy for creating menus where the forms may move around the screen. You can control the form's exact positioning from the calling form.

•  Extended Cut Video - Silver
•  Gold Member Template Download - Gold
• OpenFormRight in Code Vault - Gold

Member Update

• My OpenFormRight function will not work if the form is set to Popup. I almost never use Popup forms to begin with, so I would never have tested with this. 

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Links

• Blank Template: https://599cd.com/Blank
• Report Listbox: https://599cd.com/ReportListbox
• Dashboards: https://599cd.com/Dashboards
• Splash Screens: https://599cd.com/SplashScreen
• Favorite Customers: https://599cd.com/FavoriteCustomers
• Simple Security: https://599cd.com/SimpleSecurity
• Form Aesthetics: https://599cd.com/Aesthetics
• Alt Keys Navigate Ribbon: https://599cd.com/ShortcutRibbon
• Microsoft's Switchboard Article: https://tinyurl.com/yzarcgb4
• Microsoft's Navigation Form Video: https://tinyurl.com/yfu9lwkd

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