Issue 57097

Summary: API: cannot create new empty form document using the public UNO API
Product: Base Reporter: Frank Schönheit <frank.schoenheit>
Component: codeAssignee: AOO issues mailing list <issues>
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Severity: Trivial    
Priority: P3 CC: issues
Version: OOo 2.0   
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Description Frank Schönheit 2005-11-01 08:17:24 UTC 
The Developer's Guide states that you can create a new form (or report, for that
matter) document in a database by using createInstanceWithArguments, and passing
arguments named "Name" and "ActiveConnection".
This does not work, as the attached macro proves.

There are several problems associated with trying to create a new empty form
document:
- API-wise, you need to pass a cryptic "ClassID" property to the
  createInstanceWithArguments method, else the document definition internally does
  not create an embedded object
- even if the proper class id is passed, the form does not yet exist. Instead,
it is only
  saved after it is opened in design mode, and then saved. This (opening an UI) is
  not acceptable for scripting.

We need a API mechanism to simply "create a new empty form with name 'foo'".
Comment 1 Frank Schönheit 2005-11-01 08:19:21 UTC 
Created attachment 31069 [details]
document to reproduce the bug case
Comment 2 Frank Schönheit 2005-11-01 08:22:31 UTC 
fs->oj: it's not as simple as defaulting the ClassId property ...
Comment 3 Frank Schönheit 2005-11-01 08:34:33 UTC 
ah, wrong, it *is* as easy as defaulting this argument. An additional
insertByName persists the form, no need to explicitly save it ...
Comment 4 Frank Schönheit 2005-11-01 08:48:20 UTC 
argh. insertByName shows the form document in the application window, but leaves
it unusable - opening just raises some useless error message :(
We have to think about the concepts in detail here ...
Comment 5 Marcus 2017-05-20 10:44:49 UTC 
Reset the assignee to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".