On Sun November 20 2005 07:09, James Elliott wrote: > Firstly, congratulations on OOo 2.0 I have been an OOo user from the > first release (1.0), and a great advocate of it, but only recently > downloaded version 2.0 (stable), and I must say that it is fantastic - > something to be very proud of and definitely the world's best office suite. > > I was particularly excited by the inclusion of Base. I played with Base in > the Beta version, but was like a kid with a new toy with the latest release > of it. It looks and feels fantastic I learned Access at Uni and Base is so > excellent, and user friendly as well. Please don't take this as any form > of criticism, because I am sure that Base will soon take over as the > desktop relational database of choice, but here are a few little challenges > I have, which might be bugs, or might mean that I need to learn Base > properly before putting it into routine use. > > I defined a couple of tables: > tblCustomers (Primary Key: CustID) & > tblJobs (PK: JobNumber .... Foreign Key: CustID) > > Then I used the wizard to produce two forms: > frmCustomers (with a subform based on tblJobs, related through CustID), & > frmJobs (with a subform based on tblCustomers, related through CustID). > > I was impressed with the form I saw in the background, behind the wizard > dialogue box. I ticked the "Start working with the form" checkbox and then > clicked "Finish" (I intended to use the form to add data to the tables) > > Then the wizard closed down; the form closed down; Open Office closed > down; and the Quick Starter disappeared from the System Tray near the clock > (Windows XP SP2). > > Am I doing something wrong? > > I got a bit further last night, by populating the tables first before > creating the forms, but came unstuck when I renamed a table: I renamed > "Customers" TO "tblCustomers". I was not surprised when I went to look at > one of the above forms and received an error message saying that the form > could not be populated because table Customers could not be found (my fault > for renaming it) - but I could not get rid of the error message by clicking > in the OK button and OOo was effectively frozen. When I used Task Manager > (Ctrl+Alt+Del) to close the error dialogue box, everything closed, as > described above, including the Quick Starter .... plus, I lost all the test > data I had entered into the two tables I had created.
Hi James, OOo 2.0.1 should be out quite soon. I hope that many of your problems will be fixed by it., However if they are not, then please can you please report this in issuezilla ? ( http://openoffice.org -> "My Pages" -> "Register", then when you receive a confirmation email, "Login" and "File an issue" ) In this way the relevant developers will see your bug report / suggestion and you will also see the progress of this feature / bug report if it is accepted. -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
