Protecting Your Database with Menus and Toolbars

Abstract

Tholbars and menus allow Access users and developers flexible access to all the built-in menu items and, indirectly, to any objects in your database. Though this flexibility is good for a developer’s productivity, it is not necessarily so good when it is available to the users of your database. In my experience, most users are interested in software that makes their job easier. Toolbars and menus bulging with developer options (such as the Design View and Database Window commands) probably do not assist in that aim. In addition, if users are technologically competent, they may be tempted to alter the programming objects of your database. Therefore, it is important that you learn how to use both toolbars and menus to set up a good user interface and to protect your database at the same time.