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Applications under one Windows Menu

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I have a number of (small) Access applications using different tables located differently.

Now I would like to hear any advice on how to create a desktop menu under windows so that end-users may select which Access application to run at that appropriate moment.

Thanks.
Nov 24 '12 #1
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Rabbit
12,516 Expert Mod 8TB
Put them in the same folder.
Nov 24 '12 #2
NeoPa
32,556 Expert Mod 16PB
There are 101 different ways to handle this. Rabbit has suggested one. Another obvious one would be to use an Access database to act as a menu. How dynamically you want to set up the menu is your call. It relies heavily on exactly what you're looking for, and that isn't clear in your question.

It's posted in Access, but unless you're looking for the suggestion I just gave, it's really a Windows question.
Nov 24 '12 #3
Taaner
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At our company they made a Application menu application in Access. Users have to install this, during installation an entry in the Windows Menu is created.

The applications are in separate networkmaps with separate security groups. When starting the application menu application, the userrights are checked to know what applications this user is allowed to start.

In each application folder there is an .ini-file that contains the description for the menu, and the name of the access-file to start.

When the user start an application from this menu, the application is copied to his local drive (for perfomance, avoid problems with multi-use and assure the enduser always have the latest version). Then Access is started with the local access-application.
Nov 28 '12 #4

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