Charlotte Foust
charlotte.foust at gmail.com
Fri Jun 10 16:17:25 CDT 2011
I used a popup form designed with a tab control to look a lot like the old help file dialogs, complete with index and search features. The table had a field that was used for the index but I can't recall whether I had a keyword field for search or not. Charlotte Foust On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:00 PM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>wrote: > 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > >