>What is meant by 'using'? Is this a place for a formatting string,and if so, how specified?
What is the field below this with the 'update' and 'add' buttons?
IMHO it's no good having powerful new features if nobody tells us how to use them.
You can find the answers to these questions in the topic "How to format numbers in a table field". (This topic is listed under "User Interaction" on the Development Guide page of the main documentation window. A search in the How To window for "table" will also turn it up.)
Jeanne, believe me I really do think that the RR documentation is good and clear in general, and I am not by nature a moaner, but in this case I think the location of the information is rather like Douglas Adams' document that was on public display "in a locked filing cabinet marked 'beware of the Leopard' in a dark cellar with no stairs"...
It would be a lot easier if there was an entry called 'Tables and how to use them' or something like that, and maybe a cookbook entry that showed a table being used as a very primitive spreadsheet with say two data types. The existing text doesn't tell me what the 'update' and 'add' buttons do (I found out by experiment that it adds/subtracts to/from a list of formatting for individual cells), nor the purpose of the field just above the word 'using' (it's some kind of reference to the cell, but I don't understand the format exactly), and, because there is no complete description of what kind of an object a table really is, I also don't understand what can really go in a cell. I DO understand that you can set a property which allows a user to edit a cell, from this "How to.." entry:
To allow cell editing in a table field, in the "Table" pane of the field's property inspector, check the box labeled "Cell Editing". When you click a cell in the table field, a box appears to let you edit the cell's content.
However, I have not been able to make that box appear. I did manage to set the format of a cell to 'short' for a date, and then to enter a date, but then when I entered something else (just any old text) I couldn't see the table objecting to this in any way, so I don't quite know what the formatting is for or how (or if) it's checked. And finally I do not understand which of the properties of the table can be set by script - I would guess 'all', but I would not know how to set about it.
Again apologies for the complaining tone, but I am finding learning RR 2.0 rather frustrating...
Graham
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