Redundancy in Forums?

SerranoG · #1 (**permalink**) July 9th, 2003, 10:01 AM

You have Access VBA under "Databases" into two places (Access and Access VBA) and also in "Visual Basic" in one place (Access VBA). Isn't that a bit redundant? Shouldn't it be in one forum? If anything, the one in "Visual Basic" should just point to the one in "Databases".

Greg Serrano
Michigan Dept. of Environmental Quality, Air Quality Division

Ben · #2 (**permalink**) July 11th, 2003, 09:33 AM

I've just been looking at the Access_VBA in the VBA section, I didn't see the Access Forums in the Database section, I thought the forum had been a bit quiet! :)
Is this going to be addressed? Can we also look at renaming the Excel_VBA forum to General VBA or something as people have been posting Powerpoint/Outlook/Word VBA Q's there because they have no where else to post them.

Ben · #3 (**permalink**) July 14th, 2003, 06:16 AM

Is there any update?

Hal Levy · #4 (**permalink**) July 14th, 2003, 07:03 AM

Ben-

In the database group there are many Access forums: Access, Access ASP and Access VBA
I am not sure what you want "addressed".

As was pointed out by Serrano, there are two Access VBA groups- One under Databases and the other under "Visual Basic and VBA". I hope one of the administrators take a look at that and correct it by removing one of them. I don't know SNITZ well- do they permit pointers to forums in multiple groups- or can you assign a forum to multiple groups? I think that might be the best solution.

I do think we need either an additional VBA group for general questions or more VBA groups should be made for things like WOrd/Powerpoint/Outlook. Personally I'd rather see one VBA group - I don't use VBA so I don't know if VBA for Excell is very different than VBA for Outlook...

Hal Levy
NOT a Wiley/Wrox Employee- Got a job for me?

Ben · #5 (**permalink**) July 14th, 2003, 10:43 AM

I was asking for the duplication of the Access_VBA forum to be addressed - I was caught out by the duplication (I was only using the Access_VBA under VB & VBA).
I don't know that much about Snitz either, however I do know you can add a weblink in Snitz so maybe this could be used in the VB & VBA to point to the Access_VBA under Databases?
VBA is basically VB with the application object models built in, VBA for one application is not that different to the other. I would like to see one VBA group for Access and one VBA group for all other applications (ie VBA_Access & VBA_Other). This is due to the nature of the Access VBA questions being slightly more technical in nature to the other applications.