Hi Dan,
I'm reviewing your doc and I've hit a problem with terminology. I just want to make sure I understand what the words mean before I plough on!
The title is Introduction to Data Sources and, to me, that means accessing external sources in OOo (e.g Writer, Calc) for things like Bibliography,mail merge, etc.
At the moment the document seems to be a good introduction to OOo Base, covering creating a database, tables, forms etc.; but doesn't have anything about using those data sources in other components, except that you hit F4 to do it.
The problem for me that OOo itself isn't clear on the terminology, so I don't know how you and I can be. For example, on the first screen of the create database wizard, OOo gives the option of connecting to an external "database" which could be a spreadsheet or text file. Seems to me that "Data Source" would be more consistent there.
All this ambiguity in OOo means that I'm trying to review your doc. without really understanding what it's trying to achieve. If it is about using Base, I think it might be clearer if the title was changed. If it is about data sources as I understand them, maybe there should be more on how to access data sources in Writer and Calc and less on forms, queries and reports in Base (though your guide to creating a form looks really good - if only the Form wizard was working for me on Linux - so should at least find its way into another Base guide, if not this one).
If you can let me know which direction you want to go down, I'll edit appropriately.
Cheers,
Iain.
(Dan : I sent this to you directly and then realised that getting input from the list would be useful, so this is the same mail you got - sorry for any confusion!)
