On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Alex Thurgood <alex.thurg...@gmail.com>wrote:
> As for your dropdown list : > Enter Form Edit mode. > Select your control (possibly having to "Enter Group" first) > Right-mouse button click on the control and choose "Replace with" > Choose Combobox > Now right-mouse button click on your combobox control. > At this point I'm following along perfectly fine. > Choose "Control" from the context menu. > In the "List Content Type" choose SQL from the dropdown choices. > In the List Content field, enter : > SELECT "myfield" FROM "mytable", replacing "myfield" with the field you > want the data to be selected from and "mytable" with the table name from > which the data is taken. > Here is where I think we're getting mixed up. The contents of the combobox. I want the contents of the ComboBox to be "Singstar 80s", "Singstar 90s", "Singstar Amped" that's it. I don't want to fill it is the contents of another table or field. I just want to enter in a choices literally. This is the problem I'm having. Very simple situation. Is my only option to create a new table with the list of discs and then populate the dropdown using that? There has to be a way to just type in the items I want in the dropdown. > Close the Control Properties window. > Save the changes to your form. > Close your form. > Double-click on your form to open it in data edit/entry mode. You should be > able to now select pre-entered data from the dropdown list and additionally > add new data into the same field. Just remember to save your changes before > you close the form again (or just switch to another record), and the > database before you close the ODB file. > > Alex -- 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
