Tabbed Pages

[hotkee]

Hi

While I have dabbled with OpenOffice a little from time to time, I have generally not used it to create anything until now.

I am trying to move some personal accounts data into OpenOffice. I tried MS Access 2003/2007 as well as most of my data is in Excel at present.

In MS Access I can create tabbed pages but in OpenOffice 2.4 I can find no way to get tabbed pages. So essntially I want a master detail relationship - multiple subforms displayed one one page.

Does OpenOffice have that capability? I am trying to recall if versions before 2.4 did or not?

Also 2.4 seems very awkward to work with - Once I create one form, save and then edit and try to add a Subform its not as easy as MS Access is.

My real question is however about tabbed pages - can you do them in Openoffice?

[DrewJensen]

Easy question first...then we will make it convoluted...not really.

No tabbed page form controls - there are tabbed page dialogs, but not forms.

(Might as well tell you now too. There is another glaring difference (omission?) - you can not use the value of a control as the input to another control or as the parameter to a query without a script...arrgh...curse cuse...so nothing like SELECT * FROM TABLE WHERE COLUMN = [CONTROL_NAME] )

As for adding sub-forms to an existing form - I disagree that it is more difficult, it's different for sure..but once you do it, once, you see it is pretty simple. Also there is a fundamental difference from what a form is under MS Access and what a form is under OO.o Base. That last statement probably merits a separate post somewhere, here or the wiki.

OK - so how to add sub form - ah, had a nice little post to show that, with step by step screenshots...can I find it right now..no...

BRB