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

2014-09-29 Thread Peter Goggin
: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Re-libreoffice-documentation-Re-Base-Document-Forms-tp4123900p4124035.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. I should have included details of my set up. I am running ubuntu 14. on a lenovo laptop. I have windows xp and access installed

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

2014-09-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Congrats Peter!! Nicely done :)) I posted that answer back to the Users Mailing List and consolidated the best answers from there into this post http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Re-libreoffice-documentation-Re-Base-Document-Forms-tp4123900p4124035.html (jic anyone needs to deal

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] 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] Re: Base Document - Forms

2014-09-27 Thread Peter Goggin
I am working through the documentation for the forms. To do this properly I needed a data base. As I have an access data base which I want to convert to Librebase I used this. I exported the tables from Access as Excel files, opened them in Librecalc, saved them in native librecalc format. I

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

2014-09-26 Thread Peter Goggin
On 21/09/14 20:00, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Are you using Windows, Mac or Linux? I am not sure how to do that in Windows but in Linux it would be something like; sudo apt-get install libreoffice-base-drivers Rinse and repeat for the other 2. In some distros you might need to replace apt-get

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

2014-09-26 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Wow! Fantastic :)) Glad to see you've solved the email problems. It's better if you can 1. download the chapter, 2. make the changes directly and 3. re-upload the file to the new folder Odd little comments and queries might be better as you go along, or batched up a little bit, so that

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Base Document - Forms

2014-09-21 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 21/09/2014 04:56, Peter Goggin a écrit : Peter, 2. Do I need all of the optional extras? Off-hand, check that you also have the following packages : libreoffice-base-drivers libreoffice-report-builder libreoffice-report-builder-bin Alex -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: