LO Base - Dropdown boxes

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#1

Hi all

I'm trying to use LO Base - linked to a Spreadsheet and so far all is going well.
However I don't seem to be able to get Dropdown Boxes to work. On my 'User Form' they are greyed out and do not react when clicked. I have set them to be Dropdown, entered the list of options and set the display line number.
Any ideas please?? They worked with HSQLDB but I've had too many crashes and lost data with that system so am trying a Spreadsheet source instead. Do they work with this system??

My OpSys is PClinuxOS and LO is version 5.1.4.2.

Thanks a lot

IanW
Pretoria RSA

#2

Hi :slight_smile:
Sorry you have not had any responses so far. Hopefully someone might be
able to help in a while. Sometimes it is a good idea to "bump the thread"
(which my reply here will do) in order to get your question back to the top
of the mailing list.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#3

Hi Ian,

We need more info.

I'm trying to use LO Base - linked to a Spreadsheet and so far all is
going well.

How is it linked ? What exactly do you mean by linked to a spreadsheet ?

However I don't seem to be able to get Dropdown Boxes to work. On my
'User Form' they are greyed out and do not react when clicked. I have
set them to be Dropdown, entered the list of options and set the display
line number.

If your spreadsheet is the datasource, and the properties of your form
are read/write/add (data) then any form you make stored within an ODB is
dependent on being able to make modifications to the underlying Calc
sheet. As Calc sheets are read-only when attached to ODB files as
datasources, it would not be surprising that you could not set the value
via a dropdown menu, because doing so would attempt to write the chosen
value into the cell of the sheet.

A read-only setting on the form's properties might bring back the
dropdown menus (haven't tried so don't know), but don't expect them to
write anything to the spreadsheet.

Alex

#4

I have never done this but since it seems your data might fit within a
spreadsheet perhaps you can use the features in View > Tool bars > Form
Controls, Design, Navigation to create an input sheet / form. Then another
sheet(s) for "output" via Data > Filters or Pivot Tables. You might also
be able to use the spreadsheet protection features to keep the "design"
locked down. I would guess this would be OK for 10,000 or fewer records,
could work with up to 100,000 records, but would run into spreadsheet
"practical limits" (performance, stability) beyond that ... in which case
you really would need a database!