How Form 8655 Navigation 2024

Hello and welcome to Access 2013 tutorials. In this video, I'm going to be talking you through navigation forms. So, if you want to play along, follow the link below the video to download access 2013 DB 11 and then open it up. Okay, so in the last couple of videos, we were making a datasheet. Now, what we're going to do is make a navigation form to house the datasheet. So, what is a navigation form? If you go to the create tab and go to forms, you'll find a little drop-down called navigation forms. This lists all the different types of navigation forms. I'll just click on the first one, horizontal. The idea of a navigation form is that you have buttons that go along here in this particular style of navigation form. As you click on them, you open up different forms below. The reason Microsoft decided to include navigation forms is because they were moving to a web-based design. So, they now create this thing where you've got your client copy of access which links to SharePoint tables, and you also have web forms that can open up in a web browser. For whatever reason, they decided that the navigation form style, which is similar-ish to a browser, was the most appropriate. As it happens, it was a happy accident because I quite like the functionality of the navigation form. Even though I don't make many web databases, I do use navigation forms a lot. They are almost becoming the only form I actually use. So, how do they work in terms of creating one? Well, there are some issues with navigation forms in terms of how you get the buttons to open up the forms you want. But I'll be explaining that in the next couple of videos. The first...