Software: Libreoffice base Version: 3.5.4.2 (Debian Wheezy) Subject: Cannot add auto-increment field as 4th field.
Goal: Add 4th field as unique ID / record counter. 1. Table with 3 fields as primary key. 2. Added 4th field as integer 3. Set 4th field as auto-increment. 4. Saved table which completes without errors or warnings. 5. Opened table and 4th field is not set as auto-increment. This is very frustrating because I need the 4th field to be auto-incrementing so that I can set it as the primary key for the table. This table has evolved to the point where it needs a unique ID field for performance reasons. I've tried opening the table up and manually enumerating the 4th field before turning on the "auto-increment" and it still doesn't save the field as "auto-increment". I've been able to do this kind of operation with a large number of other database software (MS Access, MS SQL, MySQL, etc.) but it's my first time using Libreoffice. Am I doing something obviously wrong here? It seems Libreoffice base only supports the first field in every table as an auto-increment field. Is this true? And if that's the case do I need to completely recreate the whole table to add an auto-increment field? Is this a bug? Or a feature limitation? Thanks. -- 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
