Hi Barbara, >> Are you (or is anybody else lurking here) aware of an issue for this? If >> not - Barbara or Marc, care to submit one? I mean, there should be a >> direct way, shouldn't it? >> > I'd be glad to submit an issue if there isn't one. My idea of how it > should work would extend the kind of data movement that can be done in > Writer (and I guess Calc) where you can select and copy a rectangular > portion of a cell grid, select the top left corner of the destination > cell grid, and paste. That would extend the current capability to use > copy to create/append. (It could even include generating new data base > records as needed if there is an auto-increment value for the key > field.) It would work in queries as well as tables. I love the way paste > works in Writer, it's very intuitive and makes short work of things > I've often had trouble with in MS Word (haven't tried any particularly > recent versions of that, so I don't know if you still have to select an > exactly equivalent area in the destination to be able to paste, but that > was necessary in all the versions I've worked with). > > Do you folks agree that this would be a reasonable request? I obviously > haven't thought it through all the way, but I could provide examples of > the kinds of things I'd like to see. Basically, I'd like anything that > looks like a table in Writer, Calc, and Base to allow data interchange. > I've written a lot of User Guide type documentation, I could even work > up some kind of draft of one for this.
I admit my original RFI (request for issue :) was more about the inability to fill in a PK field (that is: copy a data range to a new table, let Base create a PK, then copy a homogenous range to the same table -> Base should fill in the PK values, as good as possible. If I understood it right (I cross-read this thread only :-\), this was the original problem.) Your idea sounds somewhat unusual for a database (in which situations, for instance, would you want to copy a rectangular portion to a location starting at another column? How often, really, does one have data where this makes sense?). Or is this just me? > While I'm at it, I might look for something about the > much-less-than-helpful error messages when the current create/append > logic hits a snag. May have been fixed since 2.0.4, but if not .... Ah, please do. I *know* our error messages are terrible way too often, and I'd like to correct this wherever possible (Unfortunately, translating low level error conditions into human-readable, high-level error messages is one of the higher arts of programming :). Thanks & Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/staroffice - - OpenOffice.org Base http://dba.openoffice.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
