Re: [libreoffice-users] LO base: text field problem in master-slave form

Just found the answer. I may be misleading myself at times due to [a] 
prior experience of several years duration with MS Access, and [b] my 
being very new to LO base.

What doesn't work is to add text box control to a form and specify their 
data, in their properties, as a field in the main table. Do that and you 
get the problem I outlined below.

What does work is, in design mode, to select the grid control, then 
click the "add field" icon in the toolbar at page bottom, THEN select 
from this list desired fields.

NOW I have data showing up in ALL text boxes on the form. Lovely!

Tom

On 06/17/2011 01:06 AM, Tom Cloyd wrote:
> I'm new to LO base (I'm using the default HSQLDB), and having a pretty 
> good time with it so far, but have run into something I don't 
> understand, and cannot find documentation about.
>
> I have a form with a main db displayed in a grid control. Linked to it 
> is a detail db displayed in a subform. So far, so good.
>
> I want to pull out some fields from each db for display in text boxes.
>
> With the subform, this is a necessity, if I am to have full access to 
> the data in a memo field.
>
> With the main form, pulling out data into a text field (two of them, 
> actually) is more a matter of giving visual emphasis to the contents 
> of the fields involved.
>
> So...two dbs, two forms, and I want data from each db shown in text 
> boxes.
>
> The problem: When I specify the record data to be shown in one db's 
> text boxes, then do the same with the other, the settings in the first 
> disappear. Either, alone, work fine. When both are specified, only the 
> last one I specify "sticks" and actually shows up in the displayed 
> form. The problem is entirely consistent. After many tried to get 
> things to work, the problem remains.
>
> This seems nuts to me, but it occurs to me that it may be a limitation 
> of LO or HSQLDB.
>
> Can anyone shed some light on my problem, or perhaps suggest a solution.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can give!
>
> Tom Cloyd


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