Hi Peter, > I am working through the documentation for the forms. To do this > properly I needed a data base.
I thought there had been added the example-databases to the Base-Handbook. But when I had a look at http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/ I don't fin the translated examples. So I have uploaded them to the following folder: http://robert.familiegrosskopf.de/lo_hb_en/ There arae many more examples on http://de.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/ Some of the content of other chapters will link to this examples - which aren't translated yet. > As I have an access data base which I > want to convert to Librebase I used this. I exported the tables from > Access as Excel files, opened them in Librecalc, saved them in native > librecalc format. I made sure the column definitions were correct for dates. > > I copied the data cells and imported them into a Base table. I found a > problem with all fields which were created as text. If I change the > date columns to date format I cannot save the new version of the base > table without losing the date data. Is there any way of importing data > and preserving the data format? You have to change the format before you import the data. If it is a date in Calc it would be a date in Base, too. Could be the import-wizard doesn't recognize this automatically. > > Many years ago using Oracle SQL I believe you could import text data > into an already created table if your text data had been properly > formatted. Is this possible with LibreBase? If the field contains strings it isn't possible to create a date with this content. You could send me some rows of such a table (in *.ods-format) so I will have a look. Regards Robert -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@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/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
