That's pretty comprehensive, thanks! I will work through those. Regards
john On 18 October 2012 08:22, Alex Thurgood <alex.thurg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/18/2012 08:02 AM, John Clegg wrote: > > Hi John, > > > > I am accessing the remote MySQL database using com.mysql.jdbc.Driver. > > When I access the data by opening the table or using the form it is > > read-only. Any ideas again? > > > > Several possible reasons : > > - no primary key field defined in your table, but I guess you would have > noticed that before, with your previous attempts to edit the data from > within LO Base ; > > - a field in your table that LO can not parse - unfortunately, some data > types, whilst in theory recognised by the driver in other circumstances, > i.e. with other software, are not recognised by LO's data type parser, > for the lack of them being defined in the handling code. One such > example are certain binary objects. At present CLOB support is limited > to images in LO ; > > - a corrupt or misconfigured ODB file : it may be that changing your > table source has confused LO's database registration code and caused it > mark the table as read only, or alternatively, if it points to a > separated database, then the ODB configuration needs to be reset to > correspond to the new database in addition to the new table (this is > just speculation on my part) ; > > - a bug in the version of LO you are using. > > > > 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
