Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Base Document - Forms

2014-09-28 Thread Robert Großkopf
Hi Peter, I am working through the documentation for the forms. To do this properly I needed a data base. I thought there had been added the example-databases to the Base-Handbook. But when I had a look at http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/ I don't fin the translated

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] looking for documentation team credentials

2014-09-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think someone else has to set it up for you. So, hopefully someone can register you at ODFAuthors Good luck and regards from Tom :) On 28 September 2014 05:30, Robert Marshall rober...@hockeyhockeyhockey.com wrote: Hi all, Hoping that now that things have changed, I'll be able to

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Base Document - Forms

2014-09-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think Base is better when you use an external back-end. The Postgresql people made the effort to work with LO devs to make a native connector that is built into LO. MySql is another commonly used database program but it's owned by Oracle so it might be better to go for the drop-in

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Base Document - Forms

2014-09-28 Thread Jean Weber
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Robert Großkopf rob...@familiegrosskopf.de wrote: Hi Peter, I am working through the documentation for the forms. To do this properly I needed a data base. I thought there had been added the example-databases to the Base-Handbook. But when I had a look at

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Base Document - Forms

2014-09-28 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 28/09/2014 06:22, Peter Goggin a écrit : Hi Peter, Access as Excel files, opened them in Librecalc, saved them in native librecalc format. I made sure the column definitions were correct for dates. As Robert has mentioned, you must make sure that the data type stored in Calc is really a

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Base Document - Forms

2014-09-28 Thread Peter Goggin
I finally solved how to transfer the data from Access to Base. The steps are very simple and work well. During the creation stage I did not realize that while the Create button was available there was a Next stage also available where the data types of the newly crated table fields can be

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] introduction

2014-09-28 Thread Joel Madero
Hey Gary, Great to have you volunteering! So I believe you'll want to check out: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/7/74/Producing-LO-userguides.pdf If you go to the How to Review a Chapter section - I believe that's where the documentation team is at in the process. There are several

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] looking for documentation team credentials

2014-09-28 Thread Robert Marshall
Well, all I know is that I tried requesting them through this list several months ago and was told the system for setting them up was busted. Then I saw people getting credentials here recently, and I was told to request it from the list. Thanks for replying Tom. On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 1:26 AM,