On 6/19/05, G. Roderick Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 13:24 +0200, Roman Hausner wrote:
> > Base is continuing to puzzle me. Maybe somebody can
> > help me with this or point out where I could find
> > information?
> 
> This doesn't suprize me. Base, as a part of OOo2.0, is only at the beta
> candidate stage and is not recommended for production use.
> 
> Perhaps http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/ will have some docs
> from which you can work.
> 
> >
> > I am desperately trying to get an application running
> > where the front-end maintainence of mysql tables should be
> > done in OpenOffice. The deadline is approaching and
> > it does not seen that this can get solved in OO, while
> > it seems to work without problems in MS Access  :(
> >
> 
> Hmm, are you certain that you have a good working driver for MySQL?
> Check http://dba.openoffice.org/ to see if there are recommended
> drivers.
> 
> > The main issue is still a way to edit many-to-many
> > relationships. I want the user to be able to
> > have several subforms in a main form. The main
> > form shows the main table information and the sub
> > forms are supposed to show the items that relate
> > to that row in the main table through a many-to-many
> > relationship.
> >
> > Some of the difficulties that arose are these:
> >
> > *) there is no direct support for many-to-many relations.
> > I wanted to solve this by having the subform edit the
> > many-to-many table and using a listbox to show the information
> > from the third table.
> > This worked as long as I had only one subform, but
> > when I added another (by copy-paste and changing the form
> > information), neither of the two forms worked any more.
> > The original form did not show any data any longer and
> > was totally unresponsive to clicks.
> >
> > *) How do I add a subform to an existing form? I was unable
> > to find any function that does this. Adding a subform
> > in the form navigator did not show anything in the main form?
> >
> > *) in the listbox control, what is the difference between
> > SQL and SQL (native)
> >
> > *) in the listbox control, what is the "bound field" number
> > supposed to mean?
> >
> > *) What is the menu option tools->Relationships supposed to do
> > and why does clicking it tell me that my DB does not support relations??
> >
> > Is there any documentation out there about how to get this done?
> > Do you think it is at all possible to get this done with OO?
> > I would really want to implement this in OO, but if it is not
> > possible I will have to deliver it for MS Access :/
> 
> I cannot offer any more than what I recommended above. Again I caution
> you to reconsider using any beta candidate in production.
> 
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MyODBC is an excellent choice of drivers for Base/MySQL.  However,
g-roddy is probably right to suggest Base not be used for production
just yet.
-- 
Douglas Hernandez
(612) 229-9684

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