Elder Dan Lewis wrote:
Drew Jensen wrote:
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Dan Lewis
<[email protected]>wrote:
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Jean Hollis Weber <[email protected]
wrote:
John Meyer wrote:
I'm not seeing that many documents in the Base folder. Are there any
workers active on this as of right now?
As far as I know, the only knowledgable person currently working on
the
Base Guide is Dan Lewis, who put a partially completed draft of the
first
chapter in the Base folder in late May. At the time he mentioned he
had
been
very busy this year, but hoped to get back to writing.
--Jean
This looks like a good place to update my progress. I have been
doing
some more writing on chapter 1 of the Base Guide. I am now working
in the
Query section. This leaves the Reports and using Base with other data
sources as well as with other parts of OOO (Writer and Calc). Until
July
6th, I should have about half a day each day on Base. We will see
how much
I
can get done during this period of time. I hope to have the first
chapter
done by July 6th.
Dan
Hi Dan,
Started talking on the dba users mailing list regarding Search / Filter
functions in Base - planning on a 'simplistic most likely' overview
of the
feature for public access.
If there is anything I'm doing that would be of interest for the
manual -
well..just wanted to give a heads up I suppose.
Thanks
Drew
I would love to see your overview as soon as you can. Once I see
it, I might have some additional questions. There are still so very
many things that I do not understand about databases.
that makes 2 of us, minimum
Is there some place where I can get more information about the
Sun Report Builder extension.
Dimitri Popov wrote a users guide - available from Lulu for 3.95 USDollars
I would like to know how it works, but I can't seem to figure out how
to use it to create a report.
Actually I really need to respond to a request for showing how to limit
a report based on a form...I'm a couple days past due with this post -
guess I should finish that tonight...
For this post I start with the finished report and get into scripting -
But - before that...and I don't know how much anyone cares *naive
look*...but I decided to use Windows 7 for the screen captures.
Starting right from - the start -
A huge bunch ( 2 doz plus) of raw screens can be found here (27+ megs,
stored for gimp 2.6) - no narrative here
http://baseanswers.com/downloads/install_win7_raw_screens.tar.gz
( if you do look into those the order is appx:
Sun Virtual Box
Install_xxxx
new_screen size
Language packs
media_center / get a Virus checker (it is Windows)
get_OOo_xxx (up to about 38)
OOo_attachments (using MS Live Mail client)
Get_OOo_xxx ( from 40 on )
OOo_msis_win7_xxxx (this is about where the Search / Filter stuff will
start)
For a couple other - kind of on topic - screens:
http://baseanswers.com/downloads/MSIS_Win7_Tablet1.png
http://baseanswers.com/downloads/MSIS_Win7_Tablet2.png
http://baseanswers.com/downloads/MSIS_Win7_Tablet3.png
http://baseanswers.com/downloads/MSIS_Win7_Tablet4.png
First problem is where to put the fields and labels. Second problem is
inserting a function into a field. Third problem is inserting another
function into another field which will use the results of an earlier
created function.
I think I need more information here...but not today, Ok
Drew
