1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3<!--*********************************************************** 4 * 5 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 6 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 7 * distributed with this work for additional information 8 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 9 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 10 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 11 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 12 * 13 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 14 * 15 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 16 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 17 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 18 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 19 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 20 * under the License. 21 * 22 ***********************************************************--> 23 24<helpdocument version="1.0"> 25<meta> 26<topic id="textshared0212070000xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 27<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Insert Database Columns</title> 28<filename>/text/shared/02/12070000.xhp</filename> 29</topic> 30</meta> 31<body> 32<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/.uno:SbaBrwInsert" id="bm_id6269470" localize="false"/> 33<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/.uno:SbaBrwInsert" id="bm_id3156183" localize="false"/> 34<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3147000" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1">Insert Database Columns</paragraph> 35<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3143284" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2"><ahelp hid=".uno:SbaBrwInsert"><variable id="datenintext">Inserts all fields of the marked record into the current document at the cursor position. 36</variable></ahelp> The icon is only visible if the current document is a text document or a spreadsheet.</paragraph> 37<section id="sydatenintext"> 38<table id="tbl_id3149760"> 39<tablerow> 40<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 41<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154186" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="E"> 42<image id="img_id3147291" src="res/commandimagelist/sc_sbabrwinsert.png" width="0.222inch" height="0.222inch"><alt id="alt_id3147291" xml-lang="en-US">Icon</alt> 43</image></paragraph> 44</tablecell> 45<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 46<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153527" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="3">Data to Text</paragraph> 47</tablecell> 48</tablerow> 49</table> 50</section> 51<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153577" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4"><switchinline select="appl"><caseinline select="CALC">In the data source browser, select the record that you want to insert into the document and then click the <emph>Data to Text</emph> icon. The record is inserted in the document at the cursor position, with the contents of each individual field of the record copied to a table column. You can also select multiple records and transfer them into the document by clicking the <emph>Data to Text</emph> icon. Each individual record is then written to a new row. 52</caseinline></switchinline></paragraph> 53<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145345" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="5"><switchinline select="appl"><caseinline select="WRITER">In the data source browser, select the records that you want to insert into the document and then click the <emph>Data to Text</emph> icon, or drag-and-drop data from the data source browser into the document. This opens the <emph>Insert Database Columns</emph> dialog. Select whether the data should be inserted as a <link href="text/shared/02/12070100.xhp" name="table">table</link>, as <link href="text/shared/02/12070200.xhp" name="fields">fields</link> or as <link href="text/shared/02/12070300.xhp" name="text">text</link>. 54</caseinline></switchinline></paragraph> 55<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153031" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6"><switchinline select="appl"><caseinline select="WRITER">The preferences you set in the <emph>Insert Database Columns</emph> dialog are saved and will be active the next time the dialog is called. This save process is independent of the database and can record the preferences for a maximum of 5 databases. 56</caseinline></switchinline></paragraph> 57<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156326" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7"><switchinline select="appl"><caseinline select="WRITER">If data is inserted into the document as a table, the table properties are not saved along with the data in the document. If you select the <emph>AutoFormat</emph> function for formatting the table, $[officename] will note the name of the format template. This template will then be used automatically if you insert data as a table again, unless the preferences have been changed. 58</caseinline></switchinline></paragraph> 59</body> 60</helpdocument> 61
