[libreoffice-users] Re: Tutorial for Base Design Forms

2011-06-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 20/06/11 12:19, John B a écrit : Hi John, > I am hopeless. I tried the wizard in 3.3.3, sure enough the fields were > added but displayed as a spreadsheet (as is data) instead of a > re-designable format for just one record, AND the design /edit button is > greyed out (as are most of the other

[libreoffice-users] Re: Error saving LibreOffice Documents under MacOSX 10.7

2011-06-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 22/06/11 23:52, planas a écrit : Hi all, Known bug, now reported by two different users : https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38290 Unfortunately, as far as I know, none of the Mac developers or QA testers has access to the Lion Developer Preview, so the problem can not be pinned d

[libreoffice-users] Re: [windows] list boxes not stable

2011-06-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 23/06/11 10:48, Tom Cloyd a écrit : Hi Tom, > Thanks for your involvement. Do see my recent success about success with > this effort. I will post in a second with a link to the database that > works, it that would be of any use. I am, nevertheless, very interested > in any thing your learn, gi

[libreoffice-users] Re: [windows] list boxes not stable

2011-06-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 23/06/11 02:29, Tom Cloyd a écrit : Guys, Could you separate out the individual problems into separate threads please, so that it makes it easier for everyone to follow ? It also makes it easier to try and reproduce a given behaviour, so that I, or someone else, can file a bug report. I'm wor

[libreoffice-users] Re: BASE: bug in table designer

2011-06-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 19/06/11 10:23, Tom Cloyd a écrit : Hi Tom, > Now open it. What I keep getting is a single record, with the autovalue > NOT created, and the default value in the second field. Hitting Enter, > one would think, would cause the key to instantiate, and the record > marker to move to the next reco

[libreoffice-users] Re: BASE: bug in table designer

2011-06-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 23/06/11 02:32, Tom Cloyd a écrit : Hi Tom, > In theory. But as I said, it's not actually getting created, as that > required that you move off the end of the form by pressing enter, at > which point the record marker should move to the next record. But that > isn't happening. What wrote in m

[libreoffice-users] Re: Tutorial for Base Design Forms

2011-06-20 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 20/06/11 10:41, John B a écrit : Hi John, Rather than start with a blank form, use the wizard to help you create one. After opening your ODB file, click on the Form icon on the left. In the uppermost pane, you should see the possibility to create a new form using the wizard. Choose this option

[libreoffice-users] Re: Feature request - Lotus Wordpro tabs

2011-06-20 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 20/06/11 01:40, Roland Hughes a écrit : Hi Roland, > It won't be anywhere near close. Get a copy of SmartSuit 98 or later > and see what a word processor was supposed to be. > Shame that such good functionality was left by the wayside by IBM...coz it was damned handy !! Alex -- Unsubscr

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base and SQL problems

2011-06-20 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 20/06/11 02:56, Denis Poitras a écrit : Hi Denis, > (excuse my english, I speak french) You know, we have a French user mailing list too... > > The problem is in Propriety list zone on the data tab, for list content, on > the form, to concatenate PREFIX FIRSTNAME FAMILY NAME, I have th

[libreoffice-users] Re: Delete key in the IDE does nothing

2011-06-20 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 20/06/11 04:35, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak a écrit : Hi Andrew, Welcome to the show ! If you take a look in the freedesktop bugzilla, you will see that there are many bugs relating to Base if that is still your thing. Just so you know ;-) https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=libr

[libreoffice-users] Re: List box not updating field with bound value

2011-06-20 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 20/06/11 09:05, Tom Cloyd a écrit : Hi Tom, > Um. Where in the world is this documented. I don't quite get it - and > example would help, and the only one I've found looks inappropriate. It > uses a list box simply to fill a field, not to insert a key which points > to the field, and THAT's wh

[libreoffice-users] Re: List box not updating field with bound value

2011-06-19 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 19/06/11 11:07, Tom Cloyd a écrit : Hi Tom, Possibly any one of these might shed some light : http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=96703 http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=55208 http://plan-b-for-openoffice.org/ooo-help/r2.1/en-US/WIN/shared/02/01170203 http://user

[libreoffice-users] Re: BASE: bug in table designer

2011-06-19 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 19/06/11 10:23, Tom Cloyd a écrit : Hi Tom, > > 1. Make first field a key with autovalue-yes. > 2. Make second field a text (VARCHAR) field, with entry required = No, > and give it a default value - some text string. > You do have a primary key defined as the autovalue field (since you say

[libreoffice-users] Re: *dbf files open in Calc & not Base

2011-06-18 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 19/06/11 00:48, John B a écrit : Hi John, > It is very strange that in LibreOffice this opens up in Calc and not > Base, no matter how I try to force it. > > Calc is simply not good enough to handle Database files. > > This is also confirmed in the File Open lists:- dBase(.dbf) is listed >

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base Forms/Reports and Web/Print Layout

2011-06-09 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 09/06/11 14:46, Mark Deiter a écrit : Hi Mark, Has anyone else experienced this > problem or found a work around? Will the layout settings be permanently > changing to a global type setting for everything? Of course, I could add > code to all my reports to first open them in design mode and

[libreoffice-users] Re: infinite pagination loop on open of docx

2011-06-07 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 07/06/11 01:44, jha...@comcast.net a écrit : Hi Jim, > > I attempt to open a 53 page .docx document (from MS Office 2010) with > LibreOffice 3.3.1 (Suse Linux 11.2). The document opens (shows "Page 1/53" in > the lower left corner) and is pretty much readable but then if I scroll down > a

[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 3.4 Base Form Background Colour

2011-06-06 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 06/06/11 06:23, dreamquartz a écrit : Hi, > Cannot select background colour when starting form in LO 3.4 Base. > > Any thoughts? https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37626 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36107 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37619 Alex

[libreoffice-users] Re: Native MySQL-connection

2011-06-05 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 05/06/11 21:25, Heinrich Stoellinger a écrit : Hi Heinrich, > I use Debian-Squeeze at the moment. Having spent too much time already > doing > things where I don't understand all the possible ramifications - I hesitate > to delete /tmp. Is it o.k. for sure to do so or might I "hurt" something

[libreoffice-users] Re: Native MySQL-connection

2011-06-05 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 05/06/11 16:27, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi Tom, > Hi :) > It depends on which OS. For Ubuntu and other gnu&linux distros it's > /home/user/.libreoffice And on Mac it is /Users/username/Library/Application Support/LibreOffice. Yes, renaming instead of deleting makes sense if you have a lot of

[libreoffice-users] Re: Native MySQL-connection

2011-06-05 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 28/05/11 10:20, Heinrich Stoellinger a écrit : Hi Heinrich, Well after fiddling around deleting odd bits here and there and still getting no further, I decided to delete the whole LibreOffice user profile and then restart LibreOffice. It meant I had to re-install the mysql connector again, but

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base Field Defaut Disables Save

2011-06-04 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 04/06/11 17:41, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi all, Better off looking here first : https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=libreoffice+database As you can see, there are a good number of Base bugs, many of which have are still unresolved since the very first releases of LibreOffice.

[libreoffice-users] Re: QueryTables equivalent?

2011-06-03 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 03/06/11 06:43, nwchrisb a écrit : Hi Chris, > Just to clarify: I'm not trying to use a relational database. I really just > want to parse a web page which has a lot of data. I need to do it > programmatically because the number of quarters of historical data will vary > by company. That is

[libreoffice-users] Re: new article - with quote from TDF steering committee member Italo Vignoli

2011-06-01 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 01/06/11 17:20, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions a écrit : Hi, > > UPDATE: Sources tell me that Apache has decided to take on OpenOffice. I > expect to see the official word come out this week. It may be as early > as tomorrow. sjvn--3:42 PM Eastern, May 31, 2011. > Well the word is

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base Edition formulaire

2011-05-30 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 30/05/11 10:32, barbault a écrit : Hi JM, > Comment éditer un formulaire Base? > Sachant qu'avec la configuration Ubuntu 11.04 et LibreOffice 3.3.2 > lorsqu'on ouvre un formulaire en édition la barre d'état, les barres > d'outils : contrôles formulaire, dessin, ébauche formulaire ne > réagisse

[libreoffice-users] Re: Trivia Question - Further Observation

2011-05-30 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 29/05/11 20:43, Cor Nouws a écrit : Hi Cor, > Well, some weeks (ago?) I've seen passing some discussion about this > (not followed details). The devil is in the detail :-)) > But to me it looks as a misinterpretation. > - yes, support contracts are important, because also that generates > r

[libreoffice-users] Re: Keyboard shortcuts that call for ctrl are not working on my mac

2011-05-30 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 29/05/11 23:33, Anthony Grimes a écrit : Hi Anthony, > > I can't really figure out what is going wrong here. Is this a bug? I > feel like I might be one of only a few people experiencing this, because > there is a huge lack of information about it on google. If so, am I > doing something wro

[libreoffice-users] Re: Sun Weblog Publisher broken

2011-05-29 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 28/05/11 01:53, Roland Hughes a écrit : Hi Roland, > This plugin was one of the few reasons I bothered with OpenOffice. > Being able to write blog entries off-line using fonts and specific > layouts was awesome. It appears absolutely nothing has been done on > this since 2009. Is anybody goi

[libreoffice-users] Re: Trivia Question - Further Observation

2011-05-29 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 28/05/11 09:57, t...@iafrica.com a écrit : Hi, > Thanks Alex Appreciate your thoughts.. > > Does that mean I have to buy special support to correct bugs in a "released" > version of LibO? > > If then you might as well cut the hype about open system and charge licence > fee's like MS...

[libreoffice-users] Re: Native MySQL-connection

2011-05-29 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 28/05/11 10:20, Heinrich Stoellinger a écrit : Hi Heinrich, > I just installed 3.4rc2 and also deleted the cache subdirectory before > installation. > Same result... Try completely removing or, if you don't want to lose all your settings, renaming, your user libreoffice directory. You may h

[libreoffice-users] Re: Trivia Question

2011-05-27 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 27/05/11 19:27, t...@iafrica.com a écrit : Hi, > Quite obviously I can't use Impress for serious business so I guess my > question is purely > academic? Good job you didn't post on the dev list then, you would've been told, that as a serious business user, you would naturally consider buyin

[libreoffice-users] Re: Native MySQL-connection

2011-05-27 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 26/05/11 19:08, Heinrich Stoellinger a écrit : Hi Heinrich, > I installed LibreOffice 3.4rc1 today and it seems to work o.k., except --- > the native MySQL-connector is gone. The error message (roughtly translated > from German) is ... SDBC-driver was not found. When I then try to install > it

[libreoffice-users] Re: Problem: Openoffice Base Forms in Linux

2011-05-27 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 27/05/11 14:12, Jeremy B a écrit : Hi Jeremy, > different JRE's. I have researched the problem online, and have found many > others having similar issues, and everyone seems to have this issue on > linux. I have tried many times to switch to another database program, but I > have yet to fin

[libreoffice-users] Re: Label Printing

2011-05-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 23/05/11 10:05, Charlie a écrit : > See above, my problem was not having the correct template. > One more satisfied user then, good stuff :-)) Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette Li

[libreoffice-users] Re: Label Printing

2011-05-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 22/05/11 14:20, Charlie a écrit : Hi Charlie, > I'm running LO 3.3.2, Ubuntu 10.04 and have installed a Brother QL500 > label printer using the driver in Synaptic. The labels I wish to use are > continuous address labels 29 x 90mm (Brother claim to have a template > for OO but I can't find it

[libreoffice-users] Re: Writer - envelope printing format problem

2011-05-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 23/05/11 03:18, NoOp a écrit : As Larry has already pointed out, it is but one of many known bugs with envelope printing : https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=libreoffice+envelope https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36874 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id

[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice and MAC

2011-05-20 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 19/05/11 21:54, Daren Kinser a écrit : Hi, > I am new to this software. I am looking for something that is cross > platform capable especially with Visio/Draw. I'm wanting the ability to > create a document in Visio and have someone on a Mac be able to open and > possibly modify, then possib

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base odb Forms are read only

2011-05-17 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 13/05/11 02:36, Mixalis Zisis a écrit : Just as an update to the invisible toolbars issue, I thought I would mention that a bug report in relation thereto has had its priority upped to blocker for the 3.4 release by one of the Ubuntu developers. Apparently, the problem is not just within the Ub

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base odb Forms are read only

2011-05-16 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 15/05/11 20:39, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi Tom, > The original question still hasn't been answered, i think. The question was > something about, why the save button was greyed-out after entering data, or > how > to deal with it when it's like that. > Well I think I said that the problem

[libreoffice-users] Re: Postgresql with LibO-3.3.2 BASE

2011-05-14 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 13/05/11 21:23, Ferry Toth a écrit : Hi Ferry, > > (unlike most I only used mysql in a recent project, and my feeling is > postgres is way better) > > Right now it is impossible to add/edit/change rows in tables or forms > using the SDBC driver. Reverting to the JDBC driver restores normal >

[libreoffice-users] Re: Postgresql with LibO-3.3.2 BASE

2011-05-14 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 08/04/11 07:15, Joe Collura a écrit : Hi Joe, > > On 6 April 2011 wrote about postgresql with > libre-3.3.2 base: >> I'm struggling with Inserting/Updating/Deleting data using BASE forms and >> the postgresql-server, i'm using both the jdbc and sdbc driver, But both >> does not allow me to

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base odb Forms are read only

2011-05-14 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 14/05/11 08:07, Jean-Francois Nifenecker a écrit : > Not using the Ubuntu version, I can't comment on this but just bring my > two cents here: in the RDBMS world, there's not data "save" per se. IOW, > the data are saved whenever the cursor leaves the current record to move > to another. >

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base odb Forms are read only

2011-05-13 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 13/05/11 03:01, Mixalis Zisis a écrit : Hi Mixalis, > So somewhere there is a problem... and could it be a bug? > I am having the same thing in different pc's and with new files... > > This sounds like one of the known bugs with the Ubuntu packaged version of LibreOffice - the form navigat

[libreoffice-users] Re: Documents won't open on network shared folder by double click

2011-05-10 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 10/05/11 13:32, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions a écrit : > I gave this a try with the DEB 64-bit version [English] > > I first went from a Ubuntu 10.04 LTS [64-bit] machine to a shared folder > on a Windows Vista [32-bit] laptop. > > I double-clicked an .odt files and opened it into

[libreoffice-users] Re: Softmaker Office for Android soon to enter public beta - ODT read and write support

2011-05-07 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 06/05/11 17:18, toki a écrit : Hi Jonathon, > >> Softmaker is about to go public beta with its Softmaker Office for Android, >> a comparison sheet of functionality here : > > Is there anything that can create/edit ODF spreadsheets, and > presentations on the Android? Yes, there is, called

[libreoffice-users] Re: Softmaker Office for Android soon to enter public beta - ODT read and write support

2011-05-06 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 05/05/11 00:19, Steve Edmonds a écrit : >> > Just checked the linux version, 30 euro. Captions above and below > pictures, picture rotation, opens the problem docx ok, not as good on > the odt files. > Not as smart as LO, a bit slow, but hey everything we are discussing works. > steve > Oh

[libreoffice-users] Re: Postscript Type 1 fonts probs on MacOS ?

2011-05-06 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 05/05/11 11:52, Cor Nouws a écrit : Having read through the entire thread on that Apple link I posted, there may, possibly, be a solution which involves resetting the Font manager by starting Mac in safe mode and fiddling with the Font Manager. The last two or three posts in the thread explain

[libreoffice-users] Re: Postscript Type 1 fonts probs on MacOS ?

2011-05-06 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 05/05/11 11:52, Cor Nouws a écrit : Hi Cor, Sorry, it was only on this list, but the problem seems to be with Apple, who dropped support for Type1 fonts when it developed Snow Leopard (10.6.x) : https://discussions.apple.com/message/10207063#10207063 Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-m

[libreoffice-users] Re: Postscript Type 1 fonts probs on MacOS ?

2011-05-06 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 05/05/11 11:52, Cor Nouws a écrit : Hi Cor, > > Does anyone know about this problem in LibreOffice that Postscript Type > 1 fonts no longer available on MacOS ? > > OOo bug is https://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=116762 Yes, I had an exchange about this on here with a user, and p

[libreoffice-users] Re: Opening/converting a Lotus wk4 file for Calc?

2011-05-06 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 06/05/11 09:57, Gordon Burgess-Parker a écrit : > Anyone found a way of doing this short of downloading the free Lotus > Symphony suite? (I only have 4 files, so that seems a bit of overkill...) > Gnumeric is purported to be able to open them, but you'd have to be running Linux or Mac (unless

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base Field Defaut Disables Save

2011-05-06 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 06/05/11 13:42, John Shabanowitz a écrit : Hi John, >> >> Good Info. > I thought it was a bug because of inconsistent behavior. When you connect > to a MySQL database using Base and Oracle's MySQL connector, you can ALTER, > CREATE, and DROP tables from the GUI in Base. I need to use a referen

[libreoffice-users] Softmaker Office for Android soon to enter public beta - ODT read and write support

2011-05-04 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Just to start the ball rolling with the Android discussion again, Softmaker is about to go public beta with its Softmaker Office for Android, a comparison sheet of functionality here : http://www.softmaker.com/english/ofatmcomp_en.htm Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@li

[libreoffice-users] Re: Organizational Charts

2011-05-04 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 04/05/11 15:23, Alexander Thurgood a écrit : http://templates.services.openoffice.org/fr/template/download/3335/orga_personnel02.otg http://templates.services.openoffice.org/fr/template/download/3301/orga_personnel01.otg http://templates.services.openoffice.org/fr/template/download/3445

[libreoffice-users] Re: Organizational Charts

2011-05-04 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 04/05/11 15:01, Colin a écrit : Hi Colin, > > Don't know if I'm in the right place but > > anyone know how to create an organizational chart in impress > http://templates.services.openoffice.org/fr/search/node/organigramme These are in French, but they look OK to me. Alex -- Unsub

[libreoffice-users] Re: I am wondering why the "Final" version of LO in DEB is still called RC2

2011-05-04 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 04/05/11 09:42, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions a écrit : Hi, > I am not being a pain in the -- but since it is May 4th, it would > come to reason that any Final version of LO would no longer be listed as > an RC version. > My guess is that you would be better off posting this o

[libreoffice-users] Re: Unique values function not working normally

2011-05-04 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 04/05/11 08:50, marinblu a écrit : > Very strange, but if you create i.e. a list of 3 10digit numbers (with > duplications) in calc and try to apply the unique value function, then the > return list of values are 16385 numbers. Values that are unique are hiding > at the end of the column wi

[libreoffice-users] Re: Unique values function not working normally

2011-05-04 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 04/05/11 08:50, marinblu a écrit : Hi, > Very strange, but if you create i.e. a list of 3 10digit numbers (with > duplications) in calc and try to apply the unique value function, then the > return list of values are 16385 numbers. Values that are unique are hiding > at the end of the col

[libreoffice-users] Re: Address Label mail merge/print problem in LO3.3.2

2011-05-03 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 03/05/11 23:03, RDMarr a écrit : Hi, > Am I doing something wrong in LO? > I have uninstalled LO and reinstalled it to no avail. > Windows Vista, LO 3.3.2 I think mailmerge is pretty much screwed up at the moment and has been for a while, but the circumstances vary. There have been various b

[libreoffice-users] Re: Feature Request

2011-05-03 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 04/05/11 07:08, Goldfish a écrit : Hi, > > Can I ask for a Feature Request using this email: users@libreoffice.org > > Please let me know. > No, the user list does not handle feature requests. Your best bet would be either to file a bug issue for enhancement or feature request on freedesk

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base Field Defaut Disables Save

2011-05-03 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 03/05/11 19:46, Steve Edmonds a écrit : Hi Steve, > MySQL is quite simple once you get started. Makes it much easier with a > tool like Webmin. > We started extensively with the old Lotus Approach and then migrated to > PHP/MySQL for general cross platform browser access. I keep looking at > B

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base Field Defaut Disables Save

2011-05-03 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 03/05/11 21:25, John Shabanowitz a écrit : Hi John, >> > Why can't Windows screen shots be accepted for the documentation? Is the > Windows > version of LibO that much different from the Linux and Mac versions? > It has nothing to do with differences in versions, but rather Microsoft Corp's

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base Field Defaut Disables Save

2011-05-03 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 03/05/11 16:17, Tod Hopkins a écrit : Hi Tod, > Thanks for the advice. By "mixed-mode" you mean the use of HSQLDB front end > with MySQL (or other) backend? Sorry, I should have made myself clearer. By mixed-mode of HSQLDB, I meant that the hsqldb.jar (which is provided with LibO and OOo as

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base Field Defaut Disables Save

2011-05-03 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 03/05/11 14:55, Tod Hopkins a écrit : Hi Tod, > > I would very much like to use Base, but I'm at the edge of having sufficient > knowledge to make it work. It appears that in order to make Base work for > me, I will have to study MySQL and use it as my backend, with base as a front > end

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base Field Defaut Disables Save

2011-05-03 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 02/05/11 23:08, Tod Hopkins a écrit : It appears that the UI default value setting capability available through the table editor/designer is not propagated to the underlying database by design, see this bug report : http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=108100 And it also appears th

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base Field Defaut Disables Save

2011-05-03 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 03/05/11 00:24, John Shabanowitz a écrit : Try the solution suggested in this thread : http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=26194 i.e. Go to the Tools - SQL menu entry Enter an ALTER table command to set the default value for each field as you desire. e.g. alter

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base Field Defaut Disables Save

2011-05-02 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 02/05/11 16:59, Tod Hopkins a écrit : Hi Tod, > Just begun working with Base, 3.3.2. Cannot set default field values because > the Save function stops working if you add a value to any "default" field. > When you add a default value, the Save icon is "enabled" but clicking has no > effect

[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 3.4 beta1 -warning-

2011-04-19 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 19/04/11 11:27, Guy Voets a écrit : Hi Guy, > > I can confirm that the latest beta won't start on Mac. > I downloaded LibO 3.4 beta1 yesterday, but it crashes systematically > when I try to launch it. > I have an Intel iMac with OSX 10.6.7. > All opening procedures give the same result: > • d

[libreoffice-users] Re: Opening a PPS file in not-presentation mode

2011-04-19 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 19/04/11 08:14, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera a écrit : Hi Osvaldo, > > But why? this makes no sense. Why does the application run in a > different mode, according to file filename? Isn't there a workaround or > something for this? The workaround is to rename the extension of your file to *.ppt an

[libreoffice-users] Re: upgrading from Repository killed LO

2011-04-17 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 17/04/11 10:44, plino a écrit : > OOo released 3.4 Beta on April 11 and LO jumped on their tail (apparently > with extremely bad results on ALL platforms...) Yep, at least OOo 3.4-dev (at it is called) appears to work on my Mac, which certainly can not be said of LO3.4beta :-/ Alex -- Unsu

[libreoffice-users] Re: upgrading from Repository killed LO

2011-04-16 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 17/04/11 06:12, Howard Coles Jr. a écrit : Hi Howard, > On Saturday, April 16, 2011 11:10:27 PM Howard Coles Jr. wrote: >> I upgraded today from the repository for Debian/Ubuntu (on Kubutu 10.04) >> and now my LibreOffice will not start. >> Here's the main package version info: >> libreoffice3

[libreoffice-users] Re: For MS interoperability- Legacy formats or OOXML?

2011-04-16 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 16/04/11 18:28, lotechinmo a écrit : Hi, > > Now I am switching our campus to LibreOffice, and with its ability to save > to OOXML I have another option which leads me to my question. From a purely > technical perspective of interoperability and document fidelity, would MS > Office users be

[libreoffice-users] Re: OT: WordStar reveries

2011-04-16 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 17/04/11 04:15, Wayne Borean a écrit : Hi Wayne, > Anyway, does anyone have any idea why the Beta won't run on my Mac yet? > > Wayne > At a completely wild speculative guess, I would say because it wasn't tested properly before it was released...oh silly me, I posted a warning to the dev ma

[libreoffice-users] Re: Can't add new tables - error msg

2011-04-12 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 10/04/11 05:06, us90na a écrit : Hi, > I developed a database in Access and "connected" then saved it into Base. I > can read my tables but when I go to add a new table I get the error "Could > not append colum: invalid column descriptor." > > And when I click OK I get, "Error while saving th

[libreoffice-users] Re: Postgresql with LibO-3.3.2 BASE

2011-04-07 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 07/04/11 10:37, amine amine a écrit : Hi Amine, I downloaded and installed the XTuple software. It sets up a postgresql server on a Unix socket, with a default db called demo and User/PWD admin/admin. I then downloaded the JDBC3 driver for postgres 8.4. Started LibO, and indicated in the Jav

[libreoffice-users] Re: Postgresql with LibO-3.3.2 BASE

2011-04-07 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 07/04/11 10:37, amine amine a écrit : Hi Amine, > Any hints about this problem...? > > postgresql with LibO or OoO...? does anyone use those two softwares...? > Let me try and set up a test db on postgres and I'll get back to you. I have been staying with mysql out of habit unfortunately, s

[libreoffice-users] Re: Sorting problem in LO and OOo in base / Report

2011-03-30 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 30/03/11 15:58, Rikard Svenningsen a écrit : Hi, > Now I am lost > What can be wrong, and how do I debug the worksheet to see if it's something > with char set eg. UTF-8 or some other charset > By the way if i do save the Excel Sheet to OpenOffice Sheet still the same > problem... > >

[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice - Postgresql Cannot Insert/Update/Delete rows from tables

2011-03-30 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 30/03/11 08:11, Eric a écrit : Hi Eric, > In order to verify the offending behaviour I created a fresh postgresql > database with only one table with two rows : a serial (which is the > primary key) and a text field. Then I created a test odb file : same > problem : unability to insert-update-

[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice - Postgresql Cannot Insert/Update/Delete rows from tables

2011-03-30 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 30/03/11 08:11, Eric a écrit : Hi Eric, > In order to verify the offending behaviour I created a fresh postgresql > database with only one table with two rows : a serial (which is the > primary key) and a text field. Then I created a test odb file : same > problem : unability to insert-update-

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base

2011-03-25 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 19/03/11 11:35, Libre Office a écrit : Hi Raymond, > > I am creating a query in Base (create query in design view), however, I > cannot add a second table to it. The option is also greyed out in the > menu, I suspect it is a bug however I do not want to exclude that I am > making a mistake

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base stand alone

2011-03-25 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 24/03/11 17:57, renareto a écrit : Hi Renato, > Do you mean that with HSQLDB I can design a DB cross plattform (WIN/ linux)? > > In effect. my need is that: > > - design an first population on a Linux machin > - consult on a Win machine. > > Do it could made a good work for me? Yes, you co

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base stand alone

2011-03-24 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 24/03/11 12:44, Renato Pontefice a écrit : Hi Renato > I'm very very new to Libreoffice (about 5 minutes :-) ) > > I have to create a DB. Of course I will use Base, but: > - I'm wondering if it could be published as a stand alone. I mean: > I need to create the DB, but my client won't have Li

[libreoffice-users] Re: User manual needed

2011-03-24 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 23/03/11 21:25, william dockeray a écrit : Hello, > > I am biting the bullet sort of speak, I am trying to get your data base > system to work. > > > I created a two field, data base, and I can not even enter one record. > Obviously I am doing some thing work, which also says > your softwar

[libreoffice-users] Re: Issues with Writer and images

2011-03-16 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 15/03/11 21:17, Julio Fuenmayor a écrit : Hi Julio, > Since I started using Ubuntu, of course I've been using OpenOffice because > it was the ofimatic software in the SO, I didn't complain about that, but > there was an opportunity that I was looking for some images in internet to > do a coll

[libreoffice-users] Re: [fr-users] SQL regrouper des enregistrements

2011-03-15 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 15/03/11 17:47, barbault a écrit : Bonsoir, > Mon projet est de faire des étiquettes (le moins possible) pour envoyer > du courrier à tous les adhérents. > > Je suis presque débutant en SQL. > Est-ce possible? Je n'ai pas trouvé comment, même en essayant différentes jointures internes et ex

[libreoffice-users] Re: Has it all except ... #2

2011-03-15 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 15/03/11 09:14, Mark Stanton a écrit : Hi Mark, > However, LO/OO do not have a related email facility... > Well both OOo and LibO have "Send as e-mail", that's about as near as it gets at the moment. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archiv

[libreoffice-users] Re: reportbuilder_1.2.1 doesnot draw horizontal or vertical lines in libreoffice3.3.1, but draws them in nopenoffice3.2

2011-03-14 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 14/03/11 14:27, Todor Takov a écrit : Hi Todor, > > > Thank you for your prompt answer Alex. > I will have to wait then until it gets fixed. > I am using a MySql database to print the > reports from - and not an HSQLDB as you seem > to assume. I didn't see any point to deal > with HSQLDB

[libreoffice-users] Re: EuroOffice formula converter

2011-03-14 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 12/03/11 11:06, Aleksey a écrit : Hi, > When I try to turn on this feature, I have the following message: > > : 'module' object has no attribute > 'writeRegistryInfo', traceback follows > /usr/lib64/libreoffice/basis-link/program/pyhtonloader.py:138 in function > writeRegistryInfo() [return

[libreoffice-users] Re: reportbuilder_1.2.1 doesnot draw horizontal or vertical lines in libreoffice3.3.1, but draws them in nopenoffice3.2

2011-03-14 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 13/03/11 22:15, toodr a écrit : Hi, > I have problems with the report builder, such as > when I insert any vert. or horiz. lines in no matter what section > of the report (be it header, footer or detail) it doesnot get drawn > in libreoffice 3.3.1 but gets drawn in openoffice 3.2. > I don't

[libreoffice-users] Re: Can't connect to outgoing mail server.

2011-03-11 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 11/03/11 11:57, Pablo Maril a écrit : > Hi everyone, I have this issue on Max OS X 10.4 > > When I start the Mail Merge Wizzard i follow all the steps, and I can > only get to step 3. I think "Maybe the settings" and check for the mail > server, and efectivelly there is none, but when I tryed t

[libreoffice-users] Re: Can't connect to outgoing mail server.

2011-03-11 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 11/03/11 11:57, Pablo Maril a écrit : Hi Pablo, > When I start the Mail Merge Wizzard i follow all the steps, and I can > only get to step 3. I think "Maybe the settings" and check for the mail > server, and efectivelly there is none, but when I tryed to put my own > server, I get allways the

[libreoffice-users] Re: Bug List - LibreOffice/OpenOffice...

2011-03-08 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 07/03/11 21:44, Cor Nouws a écrit : Hi Cor, >> Have noticed the date format problem too (2 days ago when trying to >> manipulate datetime data). However, date formatting is also reported as >> being screwed in Calc, so maybe a larger problem than just with Base. > > Can you pls give numbers o

[libreoffice-users] Re: OpenOffice - LibreOffice

2011-03-05 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 05/03/11 13:19, Isabel & Marc a écrit : Hi, > It seems that with both systems I can open an Access-file but: > > - in the navigationbar of "Tables": > > -- the original tables are present > > -- the original query's are present > > - the navigationbars "Query's" and "Forms" and "Reports" a

[libreoffice-users] Re: Bug List - LibreOffice/OpenOffice...

2011-03-05 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 06/03/11 03:16, Christopher S. Knepper a écrit : Hi Chris, > 3) Office (Base) crashes when trying to anchor a form field to a frame, > entering > an infinite loop of recovery, crash, recovery, crash. The only way to break > out > of the loop is to cancel the recovery process. This wasn't a

[libreoffice-users] Re: Import data from spreadsheet to base

2011-03-03 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 04/03/11 01:59, Rogerio Luz Coelho a écrit : Hi Rogerio, >> > We of the Documentation Team are in DESPERATE need of Mac users to modify > these key / strokes for the Documentation, could you consider joining the > documentat...@libreoffice.org mailing list and see what can be done ? > I am

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base Date issue

2011-03-03 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 02/03/11 22:07, Leslie D. Martin a écrit : Hi Leslie, > Except isn't that the entire point of the field mask ''? To tell the > program that although it is a date field the only portion you will be > receiving as input is the year portion? > It wouldn't be the first time in Base that a f

[libreoffice-users] Re: Import data from spreadsheet to base

2011-03-03 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 02/03/11 22:23, James Wilde a écrit : Hi James, > >> 2. Activate the data source pane (F4) > > F4 doesn't have any effect on my Mac. Cmd+F4 closes the sheet. Shift+Cmd+F4 > has no effect. I double clicked on the Base table and got up something that > looks like a Calc sheet with only o

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base Date issue

2011-03-02 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 02/03/11 16:08, Leslie D. Martin a écrit : Hi again Leslie, > Interesting. I have the field masked as which I understood tells Base > to expect and accept only a year number. If I put in a full date (ie, > 01/01/1996) the year shows up correctly. This doesn't seem to be proper > behaviou

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base Date issue

2011-03-01 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 02/03/11 06:20, Leslie D. Martin a écrit : Hi Leslie, > I tried to send this earlier but was having some internet problems and I'm > not sure it got out. I apologize if it is a repost. > As part of an assignment in school I have to create a basic database with > two tables. In one of the table

[libreoffice-users] Re: Send document from LO 3.3.1 on OSX seems to produce no response

2011-03-01 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 28/02/11 19:34, Marc Grober a écrit : Hi Marc, > There may in fact be a command line option for invoking a Tbird envelope > from inside the package without invoking a new instance of Tbird - seems > to me I had to address something like that on aix quite a few years ago. > Unfortunately I tri

[libreoffice-users] Re: 100% zoom is huge in Snow Leopard

2011-03-01 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 01/03/11 05:58, mr9times a écrit : Hi, > > Are others experiencing this as well? I did some searching on the web and > the mail list archive but didn't find anything. > I too, have a Macbook Pro, but haven't noticed this problem. What I have noticed, however, is that the touchpad is extreme

[libreoffice-users] Re: copy paste problem

2011-02-28 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 28/02/11 11:47, Benoît Majerus a écrit : Hi, > I'm using Libre Office 3.3.1., Mac OS X Version 10.6.6. and Firefox 4.0b11. > When I copy text from LibreOffice to Firefox (for example Gmail), the > following > line precedes my copied text: "Version:1.0 StartHTML:000167 > EndHTML:000709

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