Can More than One Subform Be in a Form?

[jdanniel]

Hello.

Is it possible to create two or more subforms in a form? If so, what's the procedure?

Thank you.

[Villeroy]

Open the form in edit mode, get the "Form Design" toolbar and call the form navigator (5th button with compass). From the context menu of a form you can create arbitrary sub-forms and sub-subforms.

[jdanniel]

Open the form in edit mode, get the "Form Design" toolbar and call the form navigator (5th button with compass). From the context menu of a form you can create arbitrary sub-forms and sub-subforms.

Can you go into more detail than this, please? I'm assuming when you say the context menu of a form, it means a right-click on a listing in Navigator?

If that's true, then do I select the context menu of a form, or the subform I've created?

Because I've tried this with a form, and I'll be damned if I can see a second subform appear in my form.

Let me tell you what I did.

In Navigator, I right-clicked on Main Form.
I selected NEW, then FORM.
A form is now listed in Navigator named STANDARD.
I renamed it ACTORS.

From here, I don't know what to do. Can you add some steps to this, please?

Jd

[keme]

The subform doesn't appear as a new object in your form. Rather, think of it as a "context layer" in your form. Select the subform you want to work with in the form navigator, then add a control item (checkbox, text field, etc.), and you'll see it appear as a branch (or rather leaf) item, spawning from your selected subform, in the form navigator.

[jdanniel]

I'd like the second subform to be a repeating datasheet, just like my first subform.

What control do you suggest I use for that?

Jd

[kabing]

Use a table control. This tutorial may be of help.

Since NeoOffice is based on OpenOffice.org, the instructions should work fine for OpenOffice.org, if you keep the following things in mind:

• 1) references to the command key in a Neo tutorial are the equivalent to the control key in OOo. (i.e. Command-C becomes Control-C) Note that I'm not sure if this is true with OOo for X11.
  2) control-clicking is the same as right clicking
  3) icons sometimes look different, as NeoOffice 2.2.2 has a custom icon set.

kabing

[jdanniel]

I figured out what I want to do. Thank you.