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Custom recordset navigation bars



You can create your own recordset navigation bar that uses more complex layout and formatting styles than the simple table created by the Recordset Navigation Bar server object.

To create your own recordset navigation bar, you must:

  • Create navigation links in text or images

  • Place the links in the page in Design view

  • Assign individual server behaviors to each navigation link

This section describes how to assign individual server behaviors to the navigation links.

Create and assign server behaviors to a navigation link

  1. In Design view, select the text string or image on the page you want to use as a record navigation link.
  2. Open the Server Behaviors panel (Window > Server Behaviors), and click the Plus (+) button.
  3. Select Recordset Paging from the pop‑up menu; then select a server behavior appropriate to that link from the listed server behaviors.

    If the recordset contains a large number of records, the Move To Last Record server behavior can take a long time to run when the user clicks the link.

  4. In the Recordset pop‑up menu, select the recordset that contains the records, and click OK.

    The server behavior is assigned to the navigation link.

Set the Move To (server behavior) dialog box options

Add links that let the user navigate through records in a recordset.

  1. If you didn’t select anything on the page, select a link from the pop‑up menu.
  2. Select the recordset that contains the records to page through, and click OK.
    Note: If the recordset contains a large number of records, the Move To Last Record server behavior can take a long time to run when the user clicks the link.