Re: [libreoffice-users] Base - Relationship issues

On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 05:55 -0800, HRdesigner wrote:
> I am creating a database to track employee information I have a 1:n
> relationship and I always get a "generate foreign key" error no mater how I
> go about creating it.  How do I create a Foreign Key?  Thanks.
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     I suggest you get Chapter 8 of the Getting Started Guide available
at http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/. Getting Started
with Base is the chapter's name. It describes how to create
relationships between tables using a primary-foreign key pairs.
     Briefly, The field that is at the "1" end of the 1:n relationship
must be the primary key of its table. The second table must have a field
with the same attributes as the primary key with the except that this
field does not have AutoValue set to Yes. This field in the second table
is the foreign key. Once the tables have been created, Use Tools>
Relationships to create the relationship between the two fields.

--Dan


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