On Thursday 03 November 2005 07:37 am, wbg wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 03:33, Dan Lewis wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > > Hi Dan and list,
> > >
> > > - What manual ?
> > >
> > > - I have looked just about everywhere, I can find lots of how-to and
> > > documentation to OO - only not anything covering the use of the
> > > built-in DB feature of OO?
> > >
> > > Any directions are most appreciated, thank you in advance!
>
> daniel:
> > The OP (original poster) has a copy of the Getting Started Guide. It
> > is available at
> > http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/index.html.
> > I also have a draft copy of Getting Started with Base on my web site:
> > http://www.delewis.com/OOo/GettingStartedWithBase_DL_26Oct05.odt
> >
> > Dan
>
> bg:
>
> I just read that whole thing - all 39 pages. Raises a critical question;
> am I reading this right that Base is only providing
> canned fields from which one chooses - that there is no provision
> for user-defined fields? If so, that severely limits its utility.
>
> The other question that the manual raised is, I saw no mention
> of any sort of "Global Update" feature - i.e., increment all
> appearances of a certain field by 1, and so forth. Does one
> have to write Java to accomplish this, or something?
> Thanks,
> Brewster Gillett
First question: Have you read the section "Creating tables in Design
View"? The draft on my web site (at the second hyperlink above) has a little
more information in it. Every field is user-defined. Several of the field
types are also user defined.
Second question: I am not sure what you mean. However, Base does have an
"AutoValue" which is used in the example database for the Primary key. It is
a counting function that begins at 0 for the first record and continues from
there. The only way to access this is to have the field type set to Integer.
The Getting Started with Base is designed for exactly that: helping
someone who is unfamiliar with databases set up a simple database. More
advanced information such as the use of "Global Update" or "AutoValue" will
be a part of the Base User's Guide.
Dan
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