John Kaufmann wrote:
Drew,
In a message dated 2009.10.09 11:45 -0500, Drew Jensen wrote:
One last point then - a little something more to chew on perhaps.
Data aware controls all belong to dataform controls.
In the case of an embedded data entry form the dataform controls on a
the form must all use the same, parent, datasource.
In the case of free standing forms, separate ODT files, they do not
have this restriction:
So you can have a Master dataform control that connects to one database.
A Slave dataform that connects to a different database.
As long as the two tables referenced have some common key the form
can handle the relation...*smile*...
Down side is that you can't create queries that join across these
multiple databases, but if you structure things properly you can
achieve something close.
Thank you! - that's a lot for me to chew on - certainly at my stage of
development. You have given me some new (for me) terms, which will
require a small detour to understand your points before getting back
to my problem. It's a detour well worth taking, because I can see you
are pointing me in the right direction, even if it's more a guidepost
than a cookbook.
Thanks again,
John
Well, there really ought to be a cookbook style example in the users
guide for Writer or Calc I would assume. The last email describes the
functionality that has been in OO.o from before the Base module being
added in version 2.0.
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