User Interface Tutorial

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User Interface Tutorial

• Using the Switchboard Manager

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What is the Switchboard Manager?

• Simple form-based mechanism for creating user
  interface
• Two purposes
• provides menu-based access to all of a database's
  tables, forms, queries, and reports
• prevents user from changing the database
  structures and objects you have created in the
  application

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Switchboard for Valle Coffee Database
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Step 1. Run Switchboard Manager
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Step 2. Create Default Switchboard
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Step 3. Create Additional Switchboards
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Step 4. Add Menus to Each Switchboard
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Step 5. Select Command for Each Item
Ampersand identifies Alt shortcut key (Alt-C).
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Step 6. Include Return to Main Menu