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Web databases introduced a few ribbon design challenges, particularly how to present client and web create options? We wanted to make sure that people creating client objects are just as successful as web objects. When you create a new database from scratch,
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Today’s guest blogger is Edwin Blancovitch. Edwin is president of Advanced Developers.net , creators of Easy Payroll , a software package to manage your human resources, payroll, scheduling, time and attendance needs. I have been using the ribbon for
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Access MVP Albert Kallal has developed a Ribbon class object that you can use to simplify modifying Ribbon commands at runtime. The office ribbon is an amazing new interface. The problem with the ribbon is that takes a lot of code to change the ribbon
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Access MVP Garry Robinson and editor of vb123.com recently wrote a nice review article on IBDE Ribbon Creator . You all should find it enlightening. http://www.databasejournal.com/features/msaccess/article.php/3803996/Making-Your-Own-Access-2007-Ribbon.ht
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If you've tried to create a Ribbon customization that included one of the built-in controls in Access you've probably seen that you can use the Customize page in the Access Options dialog to get the names of groups and controls. You can also download
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I'm thinking about putting together a blog post that shows what the community has done with ribbon extensibility. From my conversations with lots of developers people are still trying to wrap their heads around the new user model It seems that having
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Avenius Gunter's Ribbon Creator just got better. Earlier this month he released version 1.1016 with a number of changes: New Features: Callback "getVisible" integrated in Ribbon XML. Callback "getEnabled" integrated in Ribbon XML.
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Some of you may have already seen this posted in Jensen’s blog. Jensen is the GPM of the Office User Experience team and was the lead for the implementation of the Ribbon in Office 2007. Last week at the MIX conference in Las Vegas,
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Those of you out there building custom Ribbon UI for Access/Office might be interested to know that the Dummies folks have recently released a guide for building Ribbon UI titled (as you might expect) " RibbonX for Dummies ". The book
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One of our Access support leads, Claton Hendricks, has put together a tool he calls Access Ribbon Customizer for Access developers who need to build custom ribbons. This tool is slightly reminiscent of (though not exactly the same as) the built-in command
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Sue and I were talking the other day about Ribbon customizations with regard to some training materials that she is preparing for our support engineers. Along the way I mentioned command repurposing and how you could do some pretty cool stuff with it
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The Access help team has just finished up our new interactive guide for users moving from 2003 to 2007. The guide is a flash based tutorial which allows you to select a command from the 2003 Access UI, and then see where it has moved to in the 2007 ribbon
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This is the third post in my short three-part series on ribbon customizations in Access. In the previous post, I showed how you could fill a dropdown with a list of the open forms in the database. This time, we'll fill a dynamicMenu control in a ribbon
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In the previous post, I showed you how to create a simple customization to close the currently open object. Continuing along the lines of adding object helpers to an application, we'll add two dropdown lists to a customization to work with forms. The
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In a previous post, I talked about how much I enjoy developing solutions that use the new Office Fluent Ribbon UI. Along those lines, this post is the first of three upcoming posts on some specific customizations I've used in some applications recently.
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