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Hi All

I can REALLY use some help!!

I'm using LO 3.40 on Linux Mint 9 KDE.

I'm trying to re-set-up my Members Database on this platform with a SubForm to record eMails and Photographs. I had this working, (without the SubForm), in OO Base but it will not open in LO so am trying to re-create it.

Will the SubForm be a part of the main Form or will it come up over the top of the Main Form with a button? If the latter how do you do this Button?

The main question however is 'How do you do SubForms?' I have gone through all the Forums and Googled for details and the more I dig the more confused I get!! AND nothing seems to work and different "answers" seem to contradict each other.

Can anyone give me straight forward step-by-step instructions please? I have my main 'Contacts Table' and an 'eMail Table' and a Main Form called 'Contacts'. I have set the Master Key called "ID" to be the link. But that's as far as I get.

Photographic question - I have read that LO keeps all it's records in memory when you open it so if you have large records this slows the whole thing down (just what is happening to me!!). Each of my records has three graphics, a 'Status Marker' and two thumbnail Photos. Then I came across an article to "LINK" to the photos on the Database rather than to include them, (which is the default).

This seems like a good direction to go in because it will cut down the size of each record and would give me the added benefit of automatically being able to update the photos on-the-fly by just over-writing the photo in the folder with a new one which the DB will fetch next time you open it!!

But again same situation as above. All the answers I find on the net seem contradictery.

Again has anyone got clear step-by-step instructions for this.

Also are there any downsides to doing this?

Thanks in advance

Ian Whitfield
South Africa.////

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