On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 13:24 +0200, Roman Hausner wrote:
> Base is continuing to puzzle me. Maybe somebody can
> help me with this or point out where I could find
> information?

This doesn't suprize me. Base, as a part of OOo2.0, is only at the beta
candidate stage and is not recommended for production use.

Perhaps http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/ will have some docs
from which you can work.

> 
> I am desperately trying to get an application running
> where the front-end maintainence of mysql tables should be
> done in OpenOffice. The deadline is approaching and
> it does not seen that this can get solved in OO, while
> it seems to work without problems in MS Access  :(
> 

Hmm, are you certain that you have a good working driver for MySQL?
Check http://dba.openoffice.org/ to see if there are recommended
drivers.

> The main issue is still a way to edit many-to-many
> relationships. I want the user to be able to
> have several subforms in a main form. The main
> form shows the main table information and the sub
> forms are supposed to show the items that relate
> to that row in the main table through a many-to-many
> relationship.
> 
> Some of the difficulties that arose are these:
> 
> *) there is no direct support for many-to-many relations.
> I wanted to solve this by having the subform edit the
> many-to-many table and using a listbox to show the information
> from the third table.
> This worked as long as I had only one subform, but
> when I added another (by copy-paste and changing the form
> information), neither of the two forms worked any more.
> The original form did not show any data any longer and
> was totally unresponsive to clicks.
> 
> *) How do I add a subform to an existing form? I was unable
> to find any function that does this. Adding a subform
> in the form navigator did not show anything in the main form?
> 
> *) in the listbox control, what is the difference between
> SQL and SQL (native)
> 
> *) in the listbox control, what is the "bound field" number
> supposed to mean?
> 
> *) What is the menu option tools->Relationships supposed to do
> and why does clicking it tell me that my DB does not support relations??
> 
> Is there any documentation out there about how to get this done?
> Do you think it is at all possible to get this done with OO?
> I would really want to implement this in OO, but if it is not
> possible I will have to deliver it for MS Access :/

I cannot offer any more than what I recommended above. Again I caution
you to reconsider using any beta candidate in production.

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