Re: Question for help to create specs to enhance Push Button to open Form or Report

by egwjens :: Rate this Message:

Hi Guys,

thats strange.... on the one side, ready-made-buttons seems to exist, but not in special cases, like a base form in the same container (odb).

Why has Sun not created such easy thing?

To present to many functions on a screen is playfull, but stress for ´Non-techies', so simplicity is beautiful. A simply function, assigned to a form, which shows only the "client-mode", without all the tools, would be really good.

It must be so easy, to offer such an functionalitiy, and lots of questions in the forums would just disapear.

I have recieved now an macro code for opening a new form, but still the paramters are not included:

REM ***** BASIC *****

Sub openFormByTag(oEv)
REM OOo3.0: Reads the form name from a calling control's tag
cWhat = com.sun.star.sdb.application.DatabaseObject.FORM
oModel = oEv.Source.getModel()
sName = oModel.Tag
oView = oModel.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.getCurrentController()
oView.loadComponent(cWhat, sName, FALSE)
End Sub

And fill the paramter in the "Additional Information" tag. in the control/function panel of the button.

Hope that this is working fine, but still the parameters, which identifies the next data sentence in the next from are missing.

How do I pass on datas from one form to the next form?

Greetings
Jens

Drew Jensen wrote:

Alex Thurgood wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The funny thing about this is that this functionality used to work in StarOffice 5.1. I used to have a form, which was obviously a StarOffice Writer document at the time, with four buttons on it. Each one was configured to open another form (i.e. another document), and as I recall (because I don't still have those documents around), the button could be linked to a file URL which would then automatically load the other form. I could also put a nice little picture as the background to the button.
>
> My guess is that this functionality went away when Sun got rid of the StarDesktop environment...but I could be wrong ;-)
>
>
Hi Alex,

Actually the functionality didn't change at all - that is kind of the
problem.
Add a button to a document and you can still open another document or a
web page.
This works if the button happens to be on a form embedded in an ODB file
just as well as if it where on a stand alone Writer file. The only thing
you CAN NOT do is open a form, or report embedded in an ODB file, not
even the same one with the form containing the button. (or a query def,
or a dataview)

So it's not that any functionality was lost when the suite went from 1.x
to 2.0 it was that no functionality to support the new Base module was
added.

Drew

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