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Adding a Button To Open Another Form
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This article is part of the To Base and Back Again tutorial series.
If you attempt to add a new field trip involving a location not already in the Locations table, you will encounter an error message. New locations must be added before the field trip data is entered. Because the Field Trips data entry form will be used most often, and because it is likely that users will forget to enter new locations first, we can make the user's experience easier by adding a button to the Field Trips Data Entry form that will open the Locations Data Entry form. This article explains how to do that.
Create The Necessary Macros
Note: The Macros below were found in This thread of the oooforums.org Base forum. The only changes involve changing the form names.
- Under the Tools menu, choose Macros, then Organize Macros and finally NeoOffice Basic