Hi Philip, > I am creating a form using a field from a BASE table with OpenOffice > 1.9.90.0. I want to use a 'Formatted Field' to display the contents of > this field. After selecting the table from the 'Form Properties' window > one would expect that the next action would be the selection of the > data field from the same window. However, after some investigation I > found that a 'Properties' window had to be opened before the required > field could be selected. This is a very cumbersome procedure for such a > simple task and surely the complete process would be better combined > into the 'Form Properties' window.
well, perhaps OOo isn't explaining it's concept very well here :-\. A "form" as in "form properties" is a collection of controls. While a form can be bound to a table/query, all belonging controls are bound to columns in this table/query. So, if you're displaying and changing properties of the form, you decide for all controls which belong to this form. How could you set a data field in the form properties then, when the data field is something which applies only to *one* of the *many* controls of that form? Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://www.sun.com/staroffice - - OpenOffice.org Database Access http://dba.openoffice.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
