Multi-Line with formatting

[platon]

I have searched this forum an the web for hours. No success. There is a feature "Multi-Line with formatting" in the controls of base forms. Can it really not be meant to be connected to a database filed? I´d so need this sort of feature.
I have found a few different approaches here that are partly contradictory but mainly I wonder how this problem can be dragged along through the versions.

approches include:

to be patient and wait till the final release of 2.0
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=23451

that it might be a bug or a feature
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=24743

one out of two users with the same release 1.9.125 actually achieves rich text in a database form
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=23375

and that nobody knows when or if this will be fixed.
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=25587

I´m using 2.1 on an xp machine.
Maybe someone can explain to me, why this isn´t fixed. Am I using the wrong sort of DB?

Thanks
Fabian

[DrewJensen]

Hi Fabian,

Sorry for the delay here - well, I suppose I found the answer. The specification document for the 'Rich Text Control' states:

[platon]

Thanks Drew, but that's not really good enough is it? I wonder whether this feature can be included any time soon.
In the meantime I suppose a workaround could be to use HTML fomating tags in the text fields and then find a way to convert the data into actually formatted text when exporting it into a report. No clue how to do the latter though. Or would that confuse the DB because of the tags?

Thanks though,
Fabian

[markLj]

How do I write a multiline memo and save it into the record. I don't see how you can use a database without this, is there some fundemental error I am making?
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[RPG]

Hello

You did choose a possibility, with formatted text, and then you can not save it to a table

Romke

[platon]

[OldguyCA]

I just wasted several hours trying to set up a database containing large blocks of text. Since the source text I was gathering used formatting -- Bold and Italic -- I tried to set the field type to multiline with formatting.

It looked like it worked.

Until I went to add the second record and found the text from the first record already in the field. So I deleted it and added the text for the second record. But found that the Multiline -text with formatting is not really a field. It is more like a label, Appearing at each record the same.

Tried it in openoffice 3x, and NeoOffice, same result. Did web searches, poked around, finally found the reference in this forum.

It would be kind if this field type was not offered as a field type, so that future users don't waste many minutes or hours trying to figure out why it does not work.

Otherwise, I enjoy OOo.