Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: List box not updating field with bound value

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From: Tom Cloyd <tc@tomcloyd.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Mon, 20 June, 2011 17:02:46
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: List box not updating field with bound 
value

On 06/20/2011 02:22 AM, Alexander Thurgood wrote:
> Le 20/06/11 09:05, Tom Cloyd a écrit :
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> > Um. Where in the world is this documented. I don't quite get it - and
> > example would help, and the only one I've found looks inappropriate. It
> > uses a list box simply to fill a field, not to insert a key which points
> > to the field, and THAT's what I want. NOT to do this would de-normalize
> > the database, would it not? So why would I EVER do that?
>
> You really need to browse through the openoffice.org forums in the Base
> section. Your problem has almost certainly been expressed there in the past.
>
> http://www.oooforum.org/
>
> and
>
> http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/
>
>
> Alex
Totally in agreement. I got up this morning feeling a bit guilty. I 
finished an 87 hour work week yesterday, and wasn't exactly at my best 
last night. Searching the forums is a most sensible thing to do - I'm on it.

Thanks.

t.


Hi :)
Don't worry,  we all blow our stack occasionally.  My keyboard suddenly stopped 
working in mid-sentence and then my internet went down for a day so i wasn't 
around respond.  Sorry about that!

If you were looking for setting up relationships between tables then hopefully 
that is in the "Getting Started with Base" guide, page 14 i think
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/

People are currently working on the Base Documentation but could use more help.  
Only Writer and Calc have been fully completed so far but the old OpenOffice 
guides should be useful as not much has really changed in Base.  


As i understand it the list boxes can use a proper table which could be quite 
tiny and gives you greater control and more finesse.  The list-box would show 
the data field NOT the id/key and might allow new entries if set-up right.  

Regards from
Tom :)

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