Anthony E. Greene wrote:
deki wrote:
On Monday 14 August 2006 21:07, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
Juraj Trenkler wrote:
Po 14. August 2006 12:47 Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
wrote/napisal:
I'd like to setup a desktop launcher (shortcut) to open a specific form
in the odb file. I can open the odb, then double-click on the form, but
I use one of the forms almost all of the time, so I'd like to open that
one directly.
I use to save form from odb file with "save as" as standalone form. Then
you can work with it directly.
That just gives me the form as an ODT file, without a connection to the
database.
Just guessing: try in Writer File->New->XML Form. There are in controls
properties tab named 'Data'. It's to sophisticated for me...
Deki
I have an ODB file. It defines an ODBC connection to a database server
(PostgreSQL) and contains two forms. In order to use of of the two forms,
I have to open the ODB file. The ODB file contains a database definition,
queries, forms, and reports. I would like to open a form that is inside
the ODB file directly from the command line.
Not wanting to contradict Frank's ealier response...well, OK I will
contradict Frank's response. You can do this with a macro and I would
hardly call that a work around...( granted it would be nice if we could
designate a default form to open when the ODB file is opened...hint,
hint, wink, wink, sighhh ).
Frank added a bit to his response talking about a macro that take
parameters for the database and the form [ sound like feature creep to
me ], but dropping these as a requirment, a simple macro to open A form
from An ODB file is straight forward. I think threre is already an
example over on the OOoForum site, and if not I will put one up today.
Either way I will put the reference to it in the next message to this list.
Drew
