[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 126123] New: LO Base: Record Search dialog window blocks editing a record

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126123

            Bug ID: 126123
           Summary: LO Base: Record Search dialog window blocks editing a
                    record
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 3.3.0 release
          Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
                OS: Linux (All)
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: Base
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: christianw_lehmann at arcor.de

Description:
Enhancement: Editing a record in the Form view is impossible (and has been so
since the first versions of LO Base) as long as the 'Record Search' dialog
window is open. Instead, editing should be possible in this situation.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have a form open in LO Base.
2. Hit the "Find Record" icon.
3. In the "Record Search" dialog window, enter some text to be found in more
than one record.
4. Hit "Search".

Actual Results:
A record is displayed. However, it cannot be edited as long as the "Record
Search" window is open. So to edit the record, I have to close the dialog
window. To continue the search, I have to open it again. And I have to enter
again the text I had been searching. This is an utterly user-unfriendly
interface design. Instead of improving it, since LO 6, the form is now grey to
remind the user that he cannot edit it. Very helpful indeed.

Expected Results:
It should be possible to have both the "Record Search" window and the form
window open and editable at the same time and to continue the search through
the database after the currently found record.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
The missing functionality here is the same provided in LO Writer: You open the
'Find & Replace' dialog window, search for something; once you found it, you
leave the 'Find & Replace' window open while working on the find, then continue
the search for the next find by clicking in the open 'Find & Replace' window.

So this is, once more, a case where there is no consistency across the
components of an Office suite.

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