On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 23:15 +1030, Peter Marsh wrote:
> I have a simple question about how to work with the dababase component
> of OpenOffice.
>
>
> When using date fields, how do you get a date field to allow the entry
> and display of the full parts of a date entry: ie date/month/century &
> year. I am able to define against a table field the formatting, but
> it does not come across on a form constructor. As I enter data, the
> century part can be entered but when I tab from it just disappears.
> How can I make it remain so that the century part of a date can be
> entered, preserved and displayed?
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
>
> Peter Marsh
A simple question, true, but a complex answer. The date field has
specific formats that it can use. The one you want is not one of them.
It would require making some adjustments in OOo to add what you want,
and I doubt that there is enough of a need for this for these
adjustments to be made.
Why century and year? If you have the year, you automatically have
the century, don't you? Since your are entering date/month/year and
century anyway, why don't you use a second field to list the century?
One field contains the date/month/year part and the second field
contains the century.
--Dan
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