Re: [libreoffice-users] Copying data from Calc to Base...

2020-07-22 Thread Robert Großkopf
Hi Zed, > > Warning.  Wrong data type:java.lang.IllegalArgumentException. This only says: You will input, for example, a text in a field for dates. Are there field-descriptions in the first row you wanted to import? Then you have to chose "First row with fieldnames". I see the fields in the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Copying data from Calc to Base...

2020-07-22 Thread Gabriele Ponzo
But in that case, I think it won't let you fill (or paste) ID field anymore. I'm not sure, just memory recall, hope to be wrong. Il gio 23 lug 2020, 05:59 Alan B ha scritto: > Hello Zed, > > I haven't used 6.4 much yet except with already existing databases. With > 6.0 (on Ubuntu) it was

Re: [libreoffice-users] Copying data from Calc to Base...

2020-07-22 Thread Alan B
Hello Zed, I haven't used 6.4 much yet except with already existing databases. With 6.0 (on Ubuntu) it was required that there be an auto incrementing index field or the import would fail with messages like you describe. If your ID field is not set to auto increment modify the field property so

[libreoffice-users] Copying data from Calc to Base...

2020-07-22 Thread zed
Using LibreOffice Base v6..4.2.2 on Linux Mint v20.0 Mate I am trying to copy and paste a LibreOffice Calc file from that program to Base.  Here is what I have done so far. Calc - created spreadsheet A = ID (Default format) B = Name (Default format) C = Location (Default format) D = Date -

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: version control of sorts: it is gone?

2020-07-22 Thread Joshua Kramer
> Ah thanks but it is only for odt format, not for docx. Which makes sense Back in the oldey-timey days of Office 97, MS-Office also supported versions within the .doc files. They stopped doing this because they wanted to push the MUCH more expensive Sharepoint which also stores versions. But

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: version control of sorts: it is gone?

2020-07-22 Thread Michael Tiernan
The thing I've noticed is that even of the checkbox for "always save new version" is set it doesn't do, as I supposed, save a new version when you hit "Save", you actually have to go into the versions box and force it. -- << MCT >> Michael C Tiernan.http://www.linkedin.com/in/mtiernan

[libreoffice-users] Re: version control of sorts: it is gone?

2020-07-22 Thread Uwe Brauer
>>> "AB" == Alan B writes: > Hello Uwe, > I'm using LibreOffice version 6.0.7.3. > "Version..." is the ninth item on the "File" menu. Ah thanks but it is only for odt format, not for docx. Which makes sense Uwe -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] version control of sorts: it is gone?

2020-07-22 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 09:25:23 +0200 Uwe Brauer wrote: Hello Uwe, >I cannot find this feature anymore. Is it gone? As Alan says, under the File menu. Still there in v7. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" Drums

Re: [libreoffice-users] version control of sorts: it is gone?

2020-07-22 Thread Alan B
Hello Uwe, I'm using LibreOffice version 6.0.7.3. "Version..." is the ninth item on the "File" menu. I've done no menu customizations. On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 3:27 AM Uwe Brauer wrote: > > > Hi > > I swear I have seen a version control of sorts[1], maybe back in the old > days of

[libreoffice-users] version control of sorts: it is gone?

2020-07-22 Thread Uwe Brauer
Hi I swear I have seen a version control of sorts[1], maybe back in the old days of openoffice. You could manually set versions which tend increased the size of the file quite a bit because new versions were saved on top of old ones. I cannot find this feature anymore. Is it gone? Regards

Re: [libreoffice-users] Multiple newlines

2020-07-22 Thread Brian Barker
At 01:16 21/07/2020 -0400, John Kaufmann wrote: You sent me to do something I should have done before asking the question: examine a hex dump of an ODT content.xml file. I see what you mean about "no codes": A paragraph is just a text string between XML bounds and , and a line break (inside