Object Folders in Access aoeusnth 24.02.2006 02:27:26 Hello, It would be great if Access allowed you to make folders in the database window. In other words, when looking at the 'tables' view in the main database window of an MDB file, you see a list of all the tables that the database holds or is linked to. It would be nice to be able to put folders in that view, so that you could group the tables by relevance. Suppose you have a bunch of reports that involve managing the database, and a bunch of other ones that are intended for general users - then you could have a folder called 'Management' and another called 'Users'. Or if you have one for products and another for sales - so on and so forth. Regards, aoeusnth ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=81d9bea7-807d-44a2-819f-36a911981284&dg=microsoft.public.access

Re: Object Folders in Access "G. Vaught" <glvaught[ at ]hotmail.com> 24.02.2006 03:43:32 That is why you come up with a convention in naming. For example if you have Sales Reports for Users you name the report to imply it is a Sales report for Users: rptUserSalesReport vs. rptMgtSalesReport. qryUser... qryMgt. If you keep this naming convention then all your queries, reports etc will be grouped and would not need Folders. I really doubt Access will ever be able to create folders because its a database program not a Windows browser program. "aoeusnth" <aoeusnth[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:81D9BEA7-807D-44A2-819F-36A911981284[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Hello, > > It would be great if Access allowed you to make folders in the database > window. In other words, when looking at the 'tables' view in the main > database window of an MDB file, you see a list of all the tables that the > database holds or is linked to. It would be nice to be able to put > folders > in that view, so that you could group the tables by relevance. > > Suppose you have a bunch of reports that involve managing the database, > and > a bunch of other ones that are intended for general users - then you could > have a folder called 'Management' and another called 'Users'. Or if you > have > one for products and another for sales - so on and so forth. > > Regards, > aoeusnth > > ---------------- > This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the > suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I > Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow > this > link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then > click "I Agree" in the message pane. > > http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=81d9bea7-807d-44a2-819f-36a911981284&dg=microsoft.public.access

RE: Object Folders in Access MT_dma 29.09.2006 20:05:01 I agree 100%!! If you have a large database it would be very helpful to be able to assign tables, queries or reports to folders. I always name my queries and reports with the descriptive name, but there can be a lot of them and with a complex database with several data entry screens, it is an awful lot to wade through. Initially when I started using Access I thought the folders under "Groups" would do this, but was dissappointed when I realized it just made a copy.... Thanks. "aoeusnth" wrote: [Quoted Text] > Hello, > > It would be great if Access allowed you to make folders in the database > window. In other words, when looking at the 'tables' view in the main > database window of an MDB file, you see a list of all the tables that the > database holds or is linked to. It would be nice to be able to put folders > in that view, so that you could group the tables by relevance. > > Suppose you have a bunch of reports that involve managing the database, and > a bunch of other ones that are intended for general users - then you could > have a folder called 'Management' and another called 'Users'. Or if you have > one for products and another for sales - so on and so forth. > > Regards, > aoeusnth > > ---------------- > This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the > suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I > Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this > link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then > click "I Agree" in the message pane. > > http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=81d9bea7-807d-44a2-819f-36a911981284&dg=microsoft.public.access