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

WooooHoooo :)

So, you have fixed your own problem!?  How did you find the answer?  
Documentation or experimentation?  


Do you have time to join the Documentation Team and perhaps help them for maybe 
a few hours a week or something?  Base documentation needs a lot of work and 
there are not many people that understand relational database programs.  There 
are various 3rd party documents in copy-left agreements that could be used or 
reffered to to help.  If you don't have time right now then don't worry.  There 
are a couple of people already but help is always appreciated :)

Congrats and regards from
Tom :)




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From: Tom Cloyd <tc@tomcloyd.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Fri, 17 June, 2011 9:22:12
Subject: 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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