I'm translating the "Inserting Data from the Data Source View into a Writer Document" article and I've found some problems.
1) Just a little thing: above the image, the button should be "Data to text" instead of "Data to field".
2) With printing the document: the Mail Merge window displays the data source view in which you can select the records you want to print. But that has no effect, whatever selection you do, you get all the records printed. Did I misunderstand something?
3) In the "Creating Forms in a Writer document" section, clicking on the Form button doesn't open the Form Properties window. In order to open it I needed to open the form Navigator.
I'm working in Leopard (PPC and Intel), with Patch 2 Test 7.
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:09 am Post subject:
jgd wrote:
1) Just a little thing: above the image, the button should be "Data to text" instead of "Data to field".
No, I meant "Data to Fields" there. That lets you see sample data instead of field names. I'll cover "Data to Text" button in the "Quickly Create Writer Tables" section that I have yet to write. Is the Data to fields button not working for you?
jgd wrote:
2) With printing the document: the Mail Merge window displays the data source view in which you can select the records you want to print. But that has no effect, whatever selection you do, you get all the records printed. Did I misunderstand something?
Hmm...It works for me. Is the "Selected Records" radio button selected? That happens automatically for me when I select records, but maybe it's not for you?
jgd wrote:
3) In the "Creating Forms in a Writer document" section, clicking on the Form button doesn't open the Form Properties window. In order to open it I needed to open the form Navigator.
Right you are! I have corrected the instructions in this section.
jgd wrote:
I'm working in Leopard (PPC and Intel), with Patch 2 Test 7.
I'm still in Tiger (10.4.11). I've download Test 7, but haven't installed it yet. I'll try to do so today and re-test the first two issues.
1) Just a little thing: above the image, the button should be "Data to text" instead of "Data to field".
No, I meant "Data to Fields" there. That lets you see sample data instead of field names. I'll cover "Data to Text" button in the "Quickly Create Writer Tables" section that I have yet to write. Is the Data to fields button not working for you?
When I click on the Data to Fields button, nothing happens.
When I cklick on the Data to Text button, after having selected one ore more rows in the data source view, I get the "Insert Database Columns" window, in which I have to drag the fields I want from the left pane into the right one.
Lorinda wrote:
jgd wrote:
2) With printing the document: the Mail Merge window displays the data source view in which you can select the records you want to print. But that has no effect, whatever selection you do, you get all the records printed. Did I misunderstand something?
Hmm...It works for me. Is the "Selected Records" radio button selected? That happens automatically for me when I select records, but maybe it's not for you?
I've selected a row but the All radio button is checked.
(Did you see that I'm an Anomaly now? It can explain the behavior of my machines )
Joined: Jun 20, 2006 Posts: 2051 Location: Midwest, USA
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 12:06 pm Post subject:
I've now installed test patch 7 (2.2.2 patch 2).
jgd wrote:
When I click on the Data to Fields button, nothing happens.
When I cklick on the Data to Text button, after having selected one ore more rows in the data source view, I get the "Insert Database Columns" window, in which I have to drag the fields I want from the left pane into the right one.
Check under the View Menu. Do you have Field Names checked? If so, turn it off and try selecting a row and then clicking the Data to Fields button again. I've added a step in the article to make sure that View>Field Names is turned off.
jgd wrote:
I've selected a row but the All radio button is checked.
Does checking the the Selected Records radio button fix the issue, or is it greyed out? I added a note in the article at this point, too, suggesting folks make sure this setting is correct.
jgd wrote:
(Did you see that I'm an Anomaly now? It can explain the behavior of my machines )
Jacqueline
I hadn't noticed until you mentioned it. Congratulations! Hopefully your machines won't stay so anomalous.
When I click on the Data to Fields button, nothing happens.
When I cklick on the Data to Text button, after having selected one ore more rows in the data source view, I get the "Insert Database Columns" window, in which I have to drag the fields I want from the left pane into the right one.
Check under the View Menu. Do you have Field Names checked? If so, turn it off and try selecting a row and then clicking the Data to Fields button again. I've added a step in the article to make sure that View>Field Names is turned off.
Thanks a lot. It works now.
Lorinda wrote:
jgd wrote:
I've selected a row but the All radio button is checked.
Does checking the the Selected Records radio button fix the issue, or is it greyed out? I added a note in the article at this point, too, suggesting folks make sure this setting is correct.
I found a list of birds of "Occidental Palearctic" (I didn't know that Occidental Palearctic ). That applies to Occidental Europe (I did know Occidental Europe ). But I didn't use it for the translation of Lorinda's tutorials. As you have to verify all the steps to get the name of the menus, windows, etc. il's easier to keep the same birds list as Lorinda.
Valter, if you want the link to the Occidental Palearctic list, let me know.
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Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 8:32 am Post subject:
Valter,
While it means you will need to adapt some articles, I think using the Italian list would be fine. Below are some notes/suggestions in this regard.
-Euring (column A) should work fine for a primary key, assuming any given number appears only once.
-If you split the Nome scientifico column (C) into two columns, genus and species (genus being the first name), you will have an easier time adapting the Splitting Tables article that I have yet to write. If you don't, I'm not sure I see another option to use as an example for that article.
-Cells D through O should be transformed into Boolean number formats, with TRUE or 1 where the Xs are now. You are more familiar with Calc than I am, so I'll leave it to you to decide the best way to do this. When pasting the table into the database file, make sure these fields are all set to yes/no (Boolean).
-The Note field would be a good candidate for the Memo (LONGVARCHAR) type. (Which reminds me that I should have used this field type for some fields in other tables.....)
Jacqueline:
Would you please send me link to the paleoartic list? I seem to have misplaced it. It occurs to me that I could include it in the copy of the database I plan to make publicly available.
Valter,
As you begin to translate, I think that you can use the Italian list applying Lorinda's instructions. I kept the American list because when I found the Paleoarctic one, I had already translated several pages and I should have to format the Excel file, to rebuild completely my database and re-write all these articles A lot of time!
Thanks to Lorinda and her bird-watching Base tutorial, we now have some current Base screenshots on the NeoOffice Screenshots page!
(Note that only English and Italian have a NeoOffice 2.1/2.2.x page; French, German, and Spanish have 2.0 Aqua Beta pages as their most current pages instead).
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