Professional Access 2013 Programming

17

Creating Intuitive Forms

WHAT'S IN THIS CHAPTER?

• Creating intuitive and professional forms
• Built-in functionality you can leverage
• Managing images, attachments and MVFs
• Report Runner tool

WROX.COM CODE DOWNLOADS FOR THIS CHAPTER

The code and file downloads for this chapter are found at www.wiley.com/go/proaccess2013prog.com on the Download Code tab. The code is in the Chapter 17 download folder in the files named:

• 850832_ch17_Team_CodeSnippets.txt
• 850832_ch17_ReportRunner_CodeSnippets.txt
• 850832_ch17_MVF_CodeSnippets.txt

The files include the code snippets from their respective database examples, sequentially from throughout this chapter. The download folder also contains the associated databases 2013Team.accdb and MVFDemo.accdb and their support files so that you can easily follow the discussion and expand on the examples.

NOTE As with most downloaded files, you may need to specifically trust and enable these files and their locations for them to function properly. To display some of the images, you will also need to store the image folder as directed or update the links to their location on your computer. For more information, please read the “What you Need” section in the book's Introduction.

Forms will make or break your user's experience with the database and it's important they are not only functional but that they also look great. You can have the best program in the world but if it looks like it was written by an amateur, that's the level of respect that it will ...