Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base Documentation

2020-03-27 Thread Jean Weber
Thanks! That the method I always use. On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 at 22:36 Pulkit Krishna wrote: > The method described in contributors guide in which portion of the chapter > are copied to the main book except copyright and contents. > > On 27 Mar 2020 4:53 p.m., "Jean Weber" wrote: > >> What is the

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base Documentation

2020-03-27 Thread Jean Weber
What is the “stacking method”? I’m not familiar with that term. Jean On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 at 20:00 Pulkit Krishna wrote: > Hell Everybody, > Chapter 10 has been placed in the published folder. > > Jean: > I have deleted the note as commented by you but the last paragraph about > incompatibility

[libreoffice-documentation] Base Documentation

2020-03-27 Thread Pulkit Krishna
Hell Everybody, Chapter 10 has been placed in the published folder. Jean: I have deleted the note as commented by you but the last paragraph about incompatibility between HSQLDB and java is necessary because of two reasons:- 1) We need to inform the users that the problem is no more. 2) It is

[libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation?

2015-03-22 Thread Jean Weber
Work on documentation (in English) for Base seems to have stopped, unless I've missed it. I see a lot of v4.2 drafts of Base Handbook chapters on ODFAuthors, and a few reviews, mostly from October 2014, and the tasks list on the wiki shows several chapters checked out for work (which may or may

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base Documentation

2015-01-28 Thread Robert Großkopf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi *, the new German Base-Handbuch Version 4.4 is available now: http://de.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/ There are also more example-databases for special problems with a description available. I have created also a Calc-document, which

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base Documentation

2015-01-27 Thread Robert Großkopf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jonathan, I thought that I had seen a couple of messages about using Base in LibreOffice 4.4. However, wandering around https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/ the highest version I've found is the German documentation for 4.3.

[libreoffice-documentation] Base Documentation

2015-01-27 Thread jonathon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All: I thought that I had seen a couple of messages about using Base in LibreOffice 4.4. However, wandering around https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/ the highest version I've found is the German documentation for 4.3. Is there

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base Documentation

2015-01-27 Thread jonathon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/01/15 20:15, Robert Großkopf wrote: The internal Firebird-database is only experimental so it isn't documented yet. I was hoping to find some documentation about that. The new version of Base-Handbook (V 4.4) will be available in a few

[libreoffice-documentation] Base Documentation

2015-01-27 Thread Jean Weber
Robert Großkopf wrote last week that the German version of Base-Handbuch for LO 4.4 will be published at the end of this month. --Jean On Wednesday, January 28, 2015, jonathon toki.kant...@gmail.com wrote: I thought that I had seen a couple of messages about using Base in LibreOffice 4.4.

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base Documentation

2015-01-27 Thread Robert Großkopf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jonathan, The internal Firebird-database is only experimental so it isn't documented yet. There is a comparison of HSQLDB and Firebird available. You could find it here:

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation - Forms

2014-10-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Thanks, so that's the wiki kinda sorted for you :) I might be able to help the couple of you who are having trouble with that maybe next week :) Others on this mailing list can also help but might be busy. Thanks and regards from Tom :) On 3 October 2014 17:22, Peter Goggin

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation - Forms

2014-10-03 Thread Jean Weber
On Friday, October 3, 2014, Peter Goggin petergog...@bigpond.com wrote: On 03/10/14 13:48, Jean Weber wrote: Peter, You were able to log in to ODFAuthors and upload the file, so your user name is clearly valid. I just checked and you appear to have the necessary permissions to change a

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation - Forms

2014-10-03 Thread Jean Weber
On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, October 3, 2014, Peter Goggin petergog...@bigpond.com wrote: On 03/10/14 13:48, Jean Weber wrote: Peter, You were able to log in to ODFAuthors and upload the file, so your user name is clearly valid. I just

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation - Forms

2014-10-03 Thread Sigrid Carrera
Hi Peter, can you post the link to the page you are trying to edit? Then maybe Jean or I can have a look at your rights. But as Jean already pointed out, you have the same rights as any other user that can check in documents... However, it could be a bug, that's why I'm aksing. Sigrid ​ --

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation - Forms

2014-10-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I tried to fix it to show the right updated status of the 2 chapters in question. I think it's correct? Peter, is that correct now? Regards from Tom :) On 3 October 2014 11:26, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation - Forms

2014-10-03 Thread Peter Goggin
On 03/10/14 23:43, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I tried to fix it to show the right updated status of the 2 chapters in question. I think it's correct? Peter, is that correct now? Regards from Tom :) On 3 October 2014 11:26, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com mailto:jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation - Forms

2014-10-02 Thread Jean Weber
On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Peter Goggin petergog...@bigpond.com wrote: On 02/10/14 04:03, Dave Barton wrote: Original Message From: Peter Goggin petergog...@bigpond.com To:Documentation@Global.LibreOffice.Org Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 18:40:00 +1000 I have worked

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation - Forms

2014-10-02 Thread Peter Goggin
On 03/10/14 13:48, Jean Weber wrote: Peter, You were able to log in to ODFAuthors and upload the file, so your user name is clearly valid. I just checked and you appear to have the necessary permissions to change a file's status, so I don't know why you can't. Don't worry about it; it's not

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

2014-10-02 Thread Peter Goggin
Should be chapter 5 for Queries. Regards Peter Goggin Forwarded Message Subject:Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation - Forms Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 14:37:19 +1000 From: Peter Goggin petergog...@bigpond.com To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org

[libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation - Forms

2014-10-01 Thread Peter Goggin
I have worked through chapter 4 - forms on the Base documentation. Apart from a minor concern relating to the descriptions of the various options in the drop down menus I found that it was a good document, and would certainly be of help to people developing forms. Owing to a disk crash I

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation - Forms

2014-10-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) You can attach the chapter to a private email to someone such as Jean, who has access to ODFAuthors and knows what she is doing with it. If you really want to learn how to do it yourself then this suggested work-flow might help;

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation - Forms

2014-10-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 to all of it especially about not being a pain. Looks like a much better answer than mine. Thanks :) Regards from Tom :) On 1 October 2014 19:03, Dave Barton d...@tasit.net wrote: Original Message From: Peter Goggin petergog...@bigpond.com To:

[libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation - Forms

2014-10-01 Thread Jean Weber
Only as a last resort, if you are unable to access the ODFAuthors website, should you send a file directly to me. Otherwise, it might sit around for awhile if I am away from my computer; I can't deal with it from a mobile device. In addition to the info in Dave Barton's note in reply: the

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation - Forms

2014-10-01 Thread Peter Goggin
Thanks for the instructions. When I try to upload my file it asks for a title and then another field for description used in searches etc. What do I put in these field? Is the title the file name? Again sorry for the trouble, but as I get older I have some difficulty in grsping new

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation volunteers

2014-09-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think the immediate one to work on is the Base Handbook rather than the full guide. I agree that reading the single chapter in the Getting Started Guide might help prepare you for Base. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications The first book there has a chapter to

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation volunteers

2014-09-09 Thread Alan Cook
Hello Tom T., Welcome to the team! I'm a volunteer (at the moment, the only one, it seems) working on updating the Base Handbook. I'd like to supplement the information that Tom D. has provided you with and let you know how you might start out getting involved with the project. As Tom

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation volunteers

2014-09-09 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Alan Cook alanc...@gmail.com wrote: The reason that there's both a Guide and a Handbook is that the German documentation team got tired of waiting around for the English team to finish the Base Guide, so they took the draft chapters, translated them, finished

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation volunteers

2014-09-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Wow, that was all very interesting. To me the word handbook suggests a reasonably comprehensive book that covers most simple cases and/or maybe look-up tables or cheat sheets to nudge me in the right direction without going into anything in tooo much depth. For the greater depth i'd expect

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation volunteers

2014-09-09 Thread Jean Weber
On Wednesday, September 10, 2014, Robinson Tryon bishop.robin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Alan Cook alanc...@gmail.com javascript:; wrote: The reason that there's both a Guide and a Handbook is that the German documentation team got tired of waiting around for the

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation volunteers

2014-09-09 Thread Robert Großkopf
Hello Alan, The reason that there's both a Guide and a Handbook is that the German documentation team got tired of waiting around for the English team to finish the Base Guide, so they took the draft chapters, translated them, finished the book, and published it as the Base-Handbuch.

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation volunteers

2014-09-08 Thread Dan Lewis
On 09/07/2014 12:41 PM, Thomas Taylor wrote: I would be interested in assisting with the documentation for base, primarily the proofreading. I don't currently use base (or any database) and feel that this would help me to also understand the concepts and utilization of this portion of

[libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation volunteers

2014-09-07 Thread Thomas Taylor
I would be interested in assisting with the documentation for base, primarily the proofreading. I don't currently use base (or any database) and feel that this would help me to also understand the concepts and utilization of this portion of LibreOffice. I use both Linux and Windows although

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation

2013-08-16 Thread Jean Weber
On 16/08/2013, at 11:49, Mark LaPierre marklap...@aol.com wrote: Thank you so much for holding my hand Y'all. I found the location where the Base documents are kept. Now, what do I do with the documents that are stored there? Is there a team leader/contact person who knows what needs doing

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation

2013-08-16 Thread Jean Weber
Regarding the Base Guide On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: On 16/08/2013, at 11:49, Mark LaPierre marklap...@aol.com wrote: Thank you so much for holding my hand Y'all. I found the location where the Base documents are kept. Now, what do I do with the

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation

2013-08-15 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 08/15/2013 02:18 AM, Sigrid Carrera wrote: Hi Jean, Mark, I just checked and Mark didn't have an ODFAuthors account. So I went ahead and created one. Mark, you should have received an email with a link to set your password. Please log in and change the password to something you can easily

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation

2013-08-15 Thread Tim Lloyd
to feedback. Have Fun Cheers - Original Message - From: Mark LaPierre Sent: 08/16/13 10:50 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation On 08/15/2013 02:18 AM, Sigrid Carrera wrote: Hi Jean, Mark, I just checked and Mark didn't have an ODFAuthors account. So I went

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation

2013-08-15 Thread Jean Weber
English? Typically we save the doc we are going to modify. Make changes and then upload to feedback. Have Fun Cheers - Original Message - From: Mark LaPierre Sent: 08/16/13 10:50 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation On 08/15/2013 02:18 AM, Sigrid Carrera

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation

2013-08-15 Thread Jean Weber
On 16/08/2013, at 10:50, Mark LaPierre marklap...@aol.com wrote: On 08/15/2013 02:18 AM, Sigrid Carrera wrote: Hi Jean, Mark, I just checked and Mark didn't have an ODFAuthors account. So I went ahead and created one. Mark, you should have received an email with a link to set your

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation

2013-08-15 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 08/15/2013 09:35 PM, Jean Weber wrote: On 16/08/2013, at 10:50, Mark LaPierre marklap...@aol.com wrote: On 08/15/2013 02:18 AM, Sigrid Carrera wrote: Hi Jean, Mark, I just checked and Mark didn't have an ODFAuthors account. So I went ahead and created one. Mark, you should have received

[libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation

2013-08-14 Thread Jean Weber
I'm travelling and will be offline for about 24 hours, nor can I check right now to see if you have an ODFAuthors account. When I get home I should stay there for a few months (unusual for me), so I may be have time for some hand-holding. Let's start by finding out what you might like to do,

[libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation

2012-01-31 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Drew from TDF recently pointed out your Base tutorial http://www.fhi.rcsed.ac.uk/rbeaumont/virtualclassroom/chap8/libreoffice_base.html I was wondering if you would like to add a link to it from the TDF documentation wiki

[libreoffice-documentation] Base Documentation

2011-05-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi all, Just a heads up to those working on Base Documentation that there are a number of known bugs related to database usage and LibreOffice : https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=libreoffice+database For many of these, little, or no, work is being done to correct them. If

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base Documentation

2011-05-23 Thread Rogerio Luz Coelho
If not Base will be abandoned is that it? Is the actual state of this comonent usable at all? Rogerio On May 23, 2011 5:50 AM, Alexander Thurgood alex.thurg...@gmail.com wrote: -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more:

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base Documentation

2011-05-23 Thread planas
Alex On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 10:49 +0200, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Hi all, Just a heads up to those working on Base Documentation that there are a number of known bugs related to database usage and LibreOffice : https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=libreoffice+database

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation

2011-02-06 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Hi Barb and Rogerio, Le 06/02/2011 13:25, Rogerio Luz Coelho a écrit : I really like your outline, and I'd say your English is *more* than adequate to get the points across. I'd be glad to edit for smoothing it out if that's needed. Exactly the same here ... go for it Jean ... if you are

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation

2011-02-06 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Le 06/02/2011 16:40, David Nelson a écrit : Sure, whatever. Anyway, the offer remains open if you change your mind. ;-) Thanks Dave. Note is well taken, would the job be out of my reach :) -- Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Bordeaux -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation

2011-02-05 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Hi Rogerio, thanks for your interest. Le 05/02/2011 15:48, Rogerio Luz Coelho a écrit : Jean I think if you manage to do something like this it would be grand, and I surely would translate it to Portuguese if you manage a English version :) This is currently on my plate... The very

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation

2011-02-05 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi Jean-François, On 05/02/2011 18:22, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote: Hi Rogerio, thanks for your interest. Le 05/02/2011 15:48, Rogerio Luz Coelho a écrit : Jean I think if you manage to do something like this it would be grand, and I surely would translate it to Portuguese if you manage

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation

2011-02-05 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 2/5/2011 9:49 AM, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote: Hi Sophie! Le 05/02/2011 16:29, Sophie Gautier a écrit : May be you can work with Alex, he said on the FR list that he is going to improve the Base documentation once he has finished to translate the Guide for beginners? However I don't

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation

2011-01-27 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Le 27/01/2011 00:37, Andy Brown a écrit : The Mid Level Base tutorial [1] is a very good beginners document as well. It contains three parts, the first two cover what a database is and how to design it. The third covers Base using SQL command to build a database. I find this to be a *very*

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation

2011-01-26 Thread Nino Novak
Hi, On Wednesday 26 January 2011 22:43, Hal Parker wrote: I personally don't have much database experience beyond the trivial, but I'm good at testing, critiquing, and editing, revising... if only we can find some database people to write an initial draft! For me personally, the best Base

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation

2011-01-26 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/26/2011 3:43 PM, Hal Parker wrote: I've started a new thread for this, in response to Alex Thurgood's comments on Base docs. My opinion FWIW is that Base related stuff is desperately needed, including a full Base Guide. We've been rebranding the OOo user guides as an initial set for

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation

2011-01-26 Thread Rogerio Luz Coelho
I second the BASE - TUTORIAL If the existing documentation is THAT scarse (bad?) the Tutorial is something a experienced Base user could cover quickly and would be the starting point of the future GUIDE. But alas, count me out of this enterprise, I don't even know how to start the Base program,

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation

2011-01-26 Thread Andy Brown
On Wed Jan 26 2011 14:34:10 GMT-0800 (PST) Nino Novak wrote: Hi, Another idea might be to add some background chapters about database theory, but there are plenty of them around so this does not really seem necessary. Of course, only if you want to take this little tutorial as starting

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation

2011-01-26 Thread Tom Davies
Duprey b...@onr.com To: documentation@libreoffice.org Sent: Wed, 26 January, 2011 22:40:43 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation On 1/26/2011 3:43 PM, Hal Parker wrote: I've started a new thread for this, in response to Alex Thurgood's comments on Base docs. My opinion FWIW