LO 4.3 Base - problems with sub forms

Alex McMurchy mcmurchy1917-libreoffice at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Aug 4 23:56:03 PDT 2014


After I wrote the note I too realised that my application had a form that had a sub form with a sub form. I raised Bug 82151 for this and attached a very cut down version of my application that should demonstrate the problem.

Alex



On Monday 04 Aug 2014 14:41:26 elderdanlewis wrote:
>    The problem is Base in 4.3.0.4. I have a form that has a subfom with a subfom. As you notice, 4.2.6.2 does not have this problem. I will be filing bug reports later late today.
> 
> Dan
> 
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Alex McMurchy <mcmurchy1917-libreoffice at yahoo.co.uk> 
> Date:08/04/2014  4:12 AM  (GMT-05:00) 
> To: libreoffice at lists.freedesktop.org 
> Subject: LO 4.3 Base - problems with sub forms 
> 
> Since and including LO 4.3 I've started having problems with sub forms
> 
> I have two tables Subscribers and Payments which are linked on Subscriber_ID.
> 
> I have a form Data_Entry" the main details of the form contains the data for one particular Subscriber from the Subscribers table. The form also has a sub form that contains the payment details for that subscriber linked on Subscriber_Id.
> 
> Upto and including LO 4.2.4  this has worked flawlessly for the past 15 months.
> 
> Load the form and see the last viewed subscriber details with matching payment details - Correct.
> 
> Select a different subscriber from a drop down box,  the contents of main form changes to reflect the new subscriber and the contents of the sub form changes to the new subscribers payment details - Correct.
> 
> 
> Since 4.3 what I get is this -
> 
> Load the form and see the last viewed subscriber details with matching payment details - Correct.
> 
> Select a different subscriber from a drop down box,  the contents of main form changes to reflect the new subscriber. The contents of the sub form doesn't change  it still reflects the payments from the previous subscriber - Wrong.
> 
> Restart LO.
> 
> Load the form and see the last viewed subscriber details with matching payment details - Correct.
> 
> Select a different subscriber from a drop down box,  the contents of main form changes to reflect the new subscriber. The contents of the sub form doesn't change  it still reflects the payments from the previous subscriber - Wrong.
> 
> 
> So the work around is to select a new subscriber, see the wrong payment details. Close LO. Start LO and load the form and see the correct payment details - bizarre.
> 
> I've had a quick search in bugzilla but found nothing. Will have another search later today and if I don't find anything will raise a bug report with the above detail. Then flesh it out with the steps to take to replicate the bug.
> 
> In the meantime has anyone seen this or any thoughts on the matter.
> 
> 
> Alex
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