Joe Grech wrote:
Hi. Is there a keyboard shortcut to enter a record underneath an identical one in database without having to type the whole record twice? TKS
I doubt it. In general, Base treats each field as an individual entity, so a record's contents are not accumulated into anything like a table row for moving, copying, or whatever. This whole area of being able to select , copy, and paste things like full query result sets, or records, or various other possibilities is one I'm really interested in -- and I've been challenged to become a developer to implement it! Probably will, if I can ever get out of crunch mode on the project I'm on. Ideally, I'd like Base tables and query result sets to be capable of acting as much as possible like Writer tables for the kinds of operations that are supported. (By the way, I do know about getting full result sets with Copy from the context menu of a table or query, but it doesn't work for queries that request parameters, which is one of the things I wanted to do.)
In this case, you're looking for something that is more or less "insert record below current record and copy contents of current record." But there is no real analog for "below" in a database table. The closest possibility would be adding a new record using the last displayed one as the pattern, probably with an auto-value primary key. In that case, you could use the old "last" record, field by field, using a combination of up arrow, Ctrl-C, down arrow, Ctrl-V to populate it, then Tab to get to the next field -- marginally better than retyping, probably.
Implementing this in a database would amount to "copy current record (except for the key), create new record, paste into new record."
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