Re: [libreoffice-users] fields added to table do not show up in form grid

Just found the solution to this one, too. Another piece of obscurity 
which, once seen, just works.

1. Place focus on grid form.
2. Click the "add field" icon in the toolbar at the bottom of the 
window; it's the blue/green thingie that's 6 icons in from the left (why 
the hell don't these things have names in their tooltips? arrrrrgh!) The 
fields in the table attached to the grid form should appear in the "add 
field" modal window.
3. Do NOT click on a field in the window, unless you want the field to 
appear as a text box control on the form itself, outside of the grid 
(which IS useful). To get the field that is NOT in the grid to appear 
there, click and drag it to the top of the grid where the other table 
column field names are to be seen.

The field names in the top border of the grid form behave like the field 
names in a query/view construction window: You can move them around with 
your mouse. Slick.

So...all's well for me with this db...at least for a while.

T.


On 06/17/2011 02:14 AM, Tom Cloyd wrote:
> Am deeply puzzled by this one:
>
> I have a master-slave form. The master db is shown in a grid control.
>
> I just added several fields to the table which supplied data to the 
> grid control, then relaunched the form. No changes are visible. Where 
> are the new table fields? The appear in several views which employ the 
> updated table, but I cannot get them to appear in the form.
>
> I would expect them to appear automatically, but if not, then there 
> should be a way to add them manually. But I cannot see where this is. 
> I MUST have these fields in the form.
>
> Can anyone suggest what the problem might be, and how I can fix it?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Tom Cloyd


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