[AccessD] ...building, managing, and using a page favorites list

Drew Wutka DWUTKA at Marlow.com
Mon Mar 9 21:07:52 CDT 2009


You're quite welcome.  

I would like to add about treeviews, that one of my wishlist items for
Access would be to let it's forms act a little more like VB forms.
Specifically the menu capabilities.  The popup menu ability of VB is way
cool when implemented with a treeview.  A good example would be this
particular example.  Instead of building an 'interface' to mark a menu
item as a favorite, you could just allow the right click of the node to
bring up a menu with 'Add as favorite' as an option (or 'Remove as
favorite' for nodes in the favorites list....).  Then again, VB doesn't
allow for the dynamic 'calling' of it's objects, like Access does
(docmd.OpenForm....), so this menu process would be difficult to
implement in VB.

Drew

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...tks Drew ...I'll take a look at it tomorrow.

William

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From: "Drew Wutka" <DWUTKA at marlow.com>
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 3:58 PM
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" 
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] ...building, managing, and using a page favorites

list

> Ok William, I put a really quick and dirty...and I mean REALLY quick
and
> dirty example together: http://www.marlow.com/menu.zip
>
> It uses two classes, MenuItems (the collection class) and MenuItem.
> MenuItems builds the menus, an AllItem collection gets a list of all
the
> menu items, and then there is a collection for favorites, recent
items,
> and a mix of favorites and recent.  If you want to 'age check' the
> favorites, it would be a simple criteria in the WHERE statement for
the
> timestamp field.
>
> I rarely build Access interfaces, and most of the ones I've built only
> have a handful of forms or reports.  So I just put in 5 forms and 5
> reports, with 3 macros.  None of them have or do anything, other then
> display what they are.  But when you click on an item in the menu, it
> runs that item by using the MenuItem class and it's Execute method.
The
> execute method runs the menu item, and also records who ran it and
when
> it was run (for the recent items list).
>
> The recent items list only grabs the last 10 items (TOP 10,
distinctrow
> (so you don't get duplicate items) ordered descending).  The
fav/recent
> group only puts the last 5 most recent into the mix.
>
> Like I said though, this was down and dirty.  The menu doesn't update
> automatically, you have to close and open it.  It wouldn't be too hard
> to make it update automatically though, I just don't have the time to
> code that.  With a treeview, you can count, add and remove nodes (and
> their children).  So from a coding aspect, it would simply be a matter
> of after executing the item, to run a check, that determines the count
> of the recent/favorites and adding any items (and removing ones that
go
> over the limits you want).
>
> Drew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of William
> Hindman
> Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 12:59 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] ...building, managing, and using a page
favorites
> list
>
> Drew
>
> ...that's closer to what I'm looking for ...not an MRU per se but TopX
> unioned w/a favorites table possibly ...however I'd also want to age
the
>
> TopX to ensure the user wasn't seeing year old data.
>
> ...I do use a highly modified switchboard table to drive a treeview
menu
>
> that is always visible ...I was thinking of adding an outlook type
> accordion
> below the treeview for personalized favorites ...was hoping someone
had
> already done something similar ...looks like I'm going to have to
build
> this
> from scratch.
>
> William
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