I haven't tested yet the embedding mail merge, but it could somehow be the solution...
It's a matter of knowing better the requirements and do some testing. Il 25 lug 2017 12:57 PM, "Alexander Thurgood" <alex.thurg...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > Le 24/07/2017 à 17:18, Joshua Kramer a écrit : > > Hi Joshua, > > > > Is it possible to either have a small (less than 50 records) database > > in a Writer document, or embed an ODB database right in the document > > (instead of having it be in an external file)? > > > > No and no, respectively. > > From what I understand, it is now possible to have a mailmerge Writer > document that contains the data referenced by the mailmerge stored > within the Writer document. Whether or not this successfully transfers > over to another machine is something I haven't tested. > > > > > > I have a document that has two different views of the same data. > > Right now I'm doing everything by hand, which is error-prone and > > inefficient. > > In what sense are you talking about views ? Do you mean actual database > views in the classical DBA sense, or do you mean some graphical > representation of the data in a formatted Writer document ? > > > portable, i.e. if I want someone else to edit this file I can just > > send one file containing both the writer document and the database. > > > > So unless I have really misunderstood what it is you are attempting to > achieve, you can already do this with just a single ODB file. > > The ODB file can contain a series of queries, views (in the DBA sense of > the word), Writer forms displaying data either obtained from views or > queries, and even reports. This file can be sent to other users who can > then edit it to their heart's content. > > > Alex > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- > unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
