jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Fri Jun 10 14:00:50 CDT 2011
This is precisely what I have in mind. I am building a smallish database for checking prisoners out of a local minimum security facility. It is working well for me and I am working with another volunteer to teach it to him. He is very computer literate but Access illiterate. Obviously help is the next step. My user is already talking about taking this to the AA state convention to show to volunteers in other parts of the state. I can't be tech support for long, it has to have help files. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com On 6/10/2011 2:33 PM, Charlotte Foust wrote: > You know, John, I did this many years ago, but the code and such is lurking > somewhere on old dead laptops. I created an interface to allow specific > users (members of the Admin group, I think) to add items to the help table. > It's probably been 10 or 12 years since I built that, but I wanted something > that didn't have to be run through a compiler and could be built into the > database itself so it couldn't get lost. The big issue was context > sensitivity, and I think I addressed that by assigning a help query to each > page of the form that required specific information. Sorry not to be more > helpful. > > Charlotte Foust > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:58 AM, jwcolby<jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>wrote: > >> Table driven would allow a savy user (with permission) to document things >> without my participation. >> >> >> John W. Colby >> www.ColbyConsulting.com >> >> >> >> On 6/10/2011 10:19 AM, Stuart McLachlan wrote: >> >>> Not me. I use WinCHM to build Help files. I find it very easy to use >>> with a good WYSIWG >>> editor. >>> >>> -- >> AccessD mailing list >> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >> >> >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> >> >>