[libreoffice-users] Re: CURRENT_DATE or TODAY default date in Base
Alexander Thurgood wrote: The command Andreas gave you updates the table definition so that the next time you enter a set of data into the table, whether by editing the table view directly or via a form, it should input the current date automatically. If this is what you have already tried, and it is not working, then I would surmise that it may possibly be linked to this bug : https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38337 for which there is currently no remedy... Alex All those bugs and incomplete implementations relate to Base. I was using a completely different software which is very mature and really free of obvious bugs. When we call ToolsSQL... in a native database, we leave this office suite and send a command to the underlying database software. This will allways work correctly as far as we use correct SQL syntax. What I forgot to mention: menu:ViewRefresh Tables lets Base re-read all table definitions so the relations and table designs take notice of the changes we applied to the underlying database software. Nevertheless, the Base GUI will not show any dynamic default values CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_TIME, nor CURRENT_TIMESTAMP simply because these expressions are no valid dates, times, time stamps. Default CURRENT_USER, set in the stupid Base GUI for a VARCHAR field, will put the literal word 'CURRENT_USER'. All works well when you leave behind that broken GUI sometimes and default CURRENT_USER will put the name of the logged-in database user which is the system administrator 'SA' in all embedded HSQLDB. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/CURRENT-DATE-or-TODAY-default-date-in-Base-tp3292686p3306409.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: CURRENT_DATE or TODAY default date in Base
Thanks Andreas, I had not realised that the Base GUI would not show the changes applied to the underlying database. Your solution works fine. How do I mark the Topic as SOLVED? Best regards John On 3 September 2011 12:36, Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de wrote: Alexander Thurgood wrote: The command Andreas gave you updates the table definition so that the next time you enter a set of data into the table, whether by editing the table view directly or via a form, it should input the current date automatically. If this is what you have already tried, and it is not working, then I would surmise that it may possibly be linked to this bug : https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38337 for which there is currently no remedy... Alex All those bugs and incomplete implementations relate to Base. I was using a completely different software which is very mature and really free of obvious bugs. When we call ToolsSQL... in a native database, we leave this office suite and send a command to the underlying database software. This will allways work correctly as far as we use correct SQL syntax. What I forgot to mention: menu:ViewRefresh Tables lets Base re-read all table definitions so the relations and table designs take notice of the changes we applied to the underlying database software. Nevertheless, the Base GUI will not show any dynamic default values CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_TIME, nor CURRENT_TIMESTAMP simply because these expressions are no valid dates, times, time stamps. Default CURRENT_USER, set in the stupid Base GUI for a VARCHAR field, will put the literal word 'CURRENT_USER'. All works well when you leave behind that broken GUI sometimes and default CURRENT_USER will put the name of the logged-in database user which is the system administrator 'SA' in all embedded HSQLDB. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/CURRENT-DATE-or-TODAY-default-date-in-Base-tp3292686p3306409.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Cheapest mobile tariffs - GUARANTEED http://www.discoverhow.co.uk/ I train people to make money http://www.makemoney.discoverhow.co.uk/ Action always beats inaction - Robert T. Kiyosaki -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: CURRENT_DATE or TODAY default date in Base
DiscoverHow.Co.Uk wrote: Your solution works fine. How do I mark the Topic as SOLVED? Since this is a mailing list, there are hundreds mail copies distributed already. There is no way to add/update/delete anything that has been posted already. This is a huge advantage for collaborating groups, but it is a nightmare for online help desks. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/CURRENT-DATE-or-TODAY-default-date-in-Base-tp3292686p3306544.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[Solved] Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: CURRENT_DATE or TODAY default date in Base
Hi :) +1 It's all good now that you have said it is solved. The best we can do is put [Solved] in the Subject-line as i have done or/and just to say that the problem is solved, as you have done. Then people who view the threads thro Nabble or something can see the problem is solved. http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/CURRENT-DATE-or-TODAY-default-date-in-Base-td3292686.html#a3306544 Regards from Tom :) From: Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 3 September, 2011 14:32:18 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: CURRENT_DATE or TODAY default date in Base DiscoverHow.Co.Uk wrote: Your solution works fine. How do I mark the Topic as SOLVED? Since this is a mailing list, there are hundreds mail copies distributed already. There is no way to add/update/delete anything that has been posted already. This is a huge advantage for collaborating groups, but it is a nightmare for online help desks. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/CURRENT-DATE-or-TODAY-default-date-in-Base-tp3292686p3306544.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: CURRENT_DATE or TODAY default date in Base
Hi Andreas, have tried this but although the Status window in the Execute SQL Statement Dialog Box reports 1: Command successfully executed. there has been no change to the table. BTW I am using latest version of LO with Ubuntu 11.04 LibreOffice 3.3.3 OOO330m19 (Build:301) tag libreoffice-3.3.3.1, Ubuntu package 1:3.3.3-1ubuntu2 Is there an error log that I can check out to see why the SQL request failed? Best regards John On 29 August 2011 14:44, Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de wrote: The Base GUI is too stupid to do that trick. It all depends on the database you are actually using. For the embedded HSQLDB type of database that is: menu:ToolsSQL... ALTER TABLE My Table ALTER COLUMN My Date DATE DEFAULT CURRENT_DATE NOT NULL You may leave out NOT NULL or you may unckeck EditDatabaseAdvanced: Form checks for required fields. Otherwise you get a form errors about missing data. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/CURRENT-DATE-or-TODAY-default-date-in-Base-tp3292686p3292724.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Cheapest mobile tariffs - GUARANTEED http://www.discoverhow.co.uk/ I train people to make money http://www.makemoney.discoverhow.co.uk/ Action always beats inaction - Robert T. Kiyosaki -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: CURRENT_DATE or TODAY default date in Base
Le 30/08/11 11:18, John Mullen a écrit : Hi John, have tried this but although the Status window in the Execute SQL Statement Dialog Box reports 1: Command successfully executed. there has been no change to the table. The command Andreas gave you updates the table definition so that the next time you enter a set of data into the table, whether by editing the table view directly or via a form, it should input the current date automatically. If this is what you have already tried, and it is not working, then I would surmise that it may possibly be linked to this bug : https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38337 for which there is currently no remedy... Alex -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: CURRENT_DATE or TODAY default date in Base
Thanks Alex, at least the dropdown in the form Date field has a TODAY option saving the user a little time Regards John On 30 August 2011 10:31, Alexander Thurgood alex.thurg...@gmail.com wrote: Le 30/08/11 11:18, John Mullen a écrit : Hi John, have tried this but although the Status window in the Execute SQL Statement Dialog Box reports 1: Command successfully executed. there has been no change to the table. The command Andreas gave you updates the table definition so that the next time you enter a set of data into the table, whether by editing the table view directly or via a form, it should input the current date automatically. If this is what you have already tried, and it is not working, then I would surmise that it may possibly be linked to this bug : https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38337 for which there is currently no remedy... Alex -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Cheapest mobile tariffs - GUARANTEED http://www.discoverhow.co.uk/ I train people to make money http://www.makemoney.discoverhow.co.uk/ Action always beats inaction - Robert T. Kiyosaki -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: CURRENT_DATE or TODAY default date in Base
Hi, When I created my forms about 8 years ago, the OpenOffice Base tutorial then recommended the use of the drop down date field. It isn't as nice as having a date automatically entered, but it is relatively convenient. On 08/30/2011 05:55 AM, John Mullen wrote: Thanks Alex, at least the dropdown in the form Date field has a TODAY option saving the user a little time Regards John On 30 August 2011 10:31, Alexander Thurgoodalex.thurg...@gmail.com wrote: Le 30/08/11 11:18, John Mullen a écrit : Hi John, have tried this but although the Status window in the Execute SQL Statement Dialog Box reports 1: Command successfully executed. there has been no change to the table. The command Andreas gave you updates the table definition so that the next time you enter a set of data into the table, whether by editing the table view directly or via a form, it should input the current date automatically. If this is what you have already tried, and it is not working, then I would surmise that it may possibly be linked to this bug : https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38337 for which there is currently no remedy... Alex -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- *** * -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: CURRENT_DATE or TODAY default date in Base
Tractor wrote: Hi, When I created my forms about 8 years ago, the OpenOffice Base tutorial then recommended the use of the drop down date field. It isn't as nice as having a date automatically entered, but it is relatively convenient. On 08/30/2011 05:55 AM, John Mullen wrote: Others learn a dead horse of a programming language in order to avoid the one click too many. http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/download/file.php?id=5762 Example DB with 2 forms for user-defined default values (organically grown, no trace of Basic or other script pollutant) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/CURRENT-DATE-or-TODAY-default-date-in-Base-tp3292686p3295341.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: CURRENT_DATE or TODAY default date in Base
The Base GUI is too stupid to do that trick. It all depends on the database you are actually using. For the embedded HSQLDB type of database that is: menu:ToolsSQL... ALTER TABLE My Table ALTER COLUMN My Date DATE DEFAULT CURRENT_DATE NOT NULL You may leave out NOT NULL or you may unckeck EditDatabaseAdvanced: Form checks for required fields. Otherwise you get a form errors about missing data. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/CURRENT-DATE-or-TODAY-default-date-in-Base-tp3292686p3292724.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
