Input masks, validation rules and lookups in OOo

Tim Mitchell · Newbie Joined: 04 Mar 2006 Posts: 2

In Microsoft Access's table design view, you can use field properties like input mask, validation rule, and lookups.

In Base, are these features available only through forms?

Thanks,

Tim Mitchell

DrewJensen · Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:41 am Post subject:

The short answer is yes, in Base you do these things in Forms.

Remembering that Base is just a front end to a database source it does not try to duplicate what you can already due in those database engines.

Validation rules are usually offered, input masks not so and that would be a great RFE for Base I think.

Lookups, as implemented in MS Access, is not something you will find anywhere else - least not often ( I think the old RBase systems used to do this )
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