[Kexi] Form with more fields from several tables
Sergio Belkin
sebelk at gmail.com
Wed May 23 22:45:06 CEST 2007
--- El Mié 23 May 2007, Jarosław Staniek encontró un teclado y tipeó lo
siguiente:
> JS: Sergio Belkin said the following, On 2007-05-23 17:56:
> JS: > I was trying to use OpenOffice.org Base with his own embedded engine
> (hsql), JS: > but since I've stuck with a lot of problems, I've decided to
> install and use JS: > Kexi, even I knew, really I'found kinda developed.
> JS: >
> JS: > Even, I've found easier and more usable than OOo Base. The way of
> creating JS: > tables is easier and more complete, even it hasn't form
> wizard, way it has to JS: > create is kinda easy. However, I have a little
> issue: I can't create a form JS: > fields from several tables. Only I can
> create forms with fields from only and JS: > only one table. Is that a
> feature or a bug? :)
> JS: >
> JS: > I am using koffice-kexi-1.6.2-2mdv2007.1 on Mandriva Spring x86_64. I
> am using JS: > no dataserver.
> JS:
> JS: Hello,
> JS: Thank you for your interest. You can create a query using joins
> JS: (relationships) in the Query Designer and then use the query as data
> source JS: for your form. The only (but annoying drawback) is that data
> coming from JS: queries is currently read-only in Kexi.
> JS:
> JS: If you're looking for subforms (another way of displaying relational
> data in JS: forms), I'll tell you there are no subforms in Kexi yet.
> JS:
Thanks Jarosław, anyway for your quick answer. Well, so I should use tables
yet because these has the Lookup columns, that as I far saw it isn't in Forms
design, is it?
I encourage you in order to keep on developing this promising software :)
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Sergio Belkin
Teléfonos 15-5494-5143 // 4788-8605
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