Idbe Ribbon Creator 2010 Serial Number
Daiana Parthemore
I suggest now that you try a couple of other controls such as labels and then proceed to adding your new ribbon to an Access database. To avoid messing up an existing database, you should now create a brand new ACCDB format database using Access 2007.
You can now open your new Access database and have a look at what has happened. If you look a Figure 5 you will see that the database has opened with a ribbon. Choose the Reports tab and you will see the button and other controls that you set up in the first exercise. Pretty neat, but now comes the tricky bit, building a full system of menus.
As you are more than likely going to be firing your own custom VBA code, if you look carefully at Figure 9, you will be able to see what function runs when you press buttons and menus in your Ribbon. I suggest that you now take a look at the code in the module basRibbonCallbacks and you will see some of these functions.
At this stage, you will want to further edit your menu and here is My No. 1 tip for ribbon editing. Make regular one-hour backups of your database. My No. 2 tip is if something works, back up the database again. Why? If you get any of the XML code wrong, the database will open and the ribbon will not display. It is almost impossible to debug ribbon errors and the best way to fix it is to return to your backup to diagnose what went wrong. Okay I have made my point on backups; if you want to start editing your ribbon, you have three choices.
1) Edit the XML in the database manually. This sounds simple but because of the problems with debugging, is generally not a great idea when starting out. Once you head down this route, there are many XML editors around that might help you do this less erroneously.
2) Work out the VBA code to produce your ribbon XML, this is the approach that I have taken because we have 200 menus to convert. I did find in this exercise that the XML code produced by the Ribbon Creator can be a bit long-winded and I found it easier to understand by removing quite a number of the tags in the menu XML.
3) The third option is returning to the IDBE Ribbon Creator to edit the menus. This approach is really good when you want to add new controls and need some new ribbon XML samples to help you build your ribbons. To edit a ribbon, you choose the round Application button and Open the database (see Figure 10). The Ribbon Creator then reads your current ribbon XML and displays the ribbons inside its own interface fairly accurately.
As for Ribbons, Access 2007 is now getting a bit of traction and learning how ribbons work is just one of those tasks that you need to be able to grasp if you want to call yourself a Microsoft Access specialist. Good luck because now is a great time to impress your boss.
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