[AccessD] Ribbon customization failing to show my tab

Oh, I could generate the  ribbon but I didn't like the errors. And I could
make some things, like icons, work.

Charlotte

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Bill Benson <bensonforums at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Charlotte,
>
> Problem in the sense that you couldn't generate a ribbon at all? Or just
> that you could not get the look and feel of the Ac2010 and later controls,
> and were stuck with that of the 2006-7 variety? Because as I said, I pasted
> in XML referring to the exact same (2006 year) schema and I could generate
> tabs and groups and controls.
>
> Bill
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust
> Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2015 2:58 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Ribbon customization failing to show my tab
>
> I just ran into the same problem.  The namespace error occurs because 2007
> and 2010 (and I assume 2013) have different namespace addresses.  I finally
> ordered Gunter Avenius's WYSIWYG ribbon generators to make it easier.
>
> Charlotte
>
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 7:39 AM, Bill Benson <bensonforums at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I am sure you are right. I have used some different xml now, but I
> > detected some kind of breaking space in the sample I posted in my
> > email and that assures me you must be right. I will follow your
> > cleanup suggestion when using Web resources. Thank you.
> > On Jan 17, 2015 10:37 AM, "Susan Harkins" <ssharkins at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Bill, I can't answer the question about compatibility, but seems
> > reasonable
> > > to expect the xml to work in a later version -- but I can't say that
> > > with any certainty. You mention cut and paste and that got my
> > > attention. It's been my experience that the VBE modules hate cut and
> paste from the web.
> > > Try dumping it in Word and replacing all the single and double
> > > quotations with straight characters and see if it runs. That's what
> > > I would do
> > first.
> > >
> > > Susan H.
> > >
> > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Bill Benson
> > > <bensonforums at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Access ribbon customization.
> > > >
> > > > The instructions are pretty straightforward here, so I thought I
> > > > would
> > > get
> > > > a
> > > > ribbon at the end of the attempt. I created a USysRibbons table,
> > > > the columns are
> > > > ID              RibbonName              RibbonXml
> > > >
> > > > The XLM was pasted exactly as shown here:
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > https://support.office.com/en-ie/article/Customize-the-Ribbon-45e110b9
> > -531c-
> > > > 46ed-ab3a-4e25bc9413de#bm2
> > > >
> > > > In the database options I have selected MyRibbon from the list of
> > > > customizations.
> > > >
> > > > Result:  Nada.
> > > >
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