Re: [libreoffice-users] user interface to Base

2013-12-05 Thread Girvin Herr
Greetings, Paul, you left out one more way (#3?) to look at the data. Open the database table and read the data like a spreadsheet. Speaking of spreadsheets, you can link the database as a data source to a calc spreadsheet. I rarely do that, but when Report Builder was too slow to use a coupl

Re: [libreoffice-users] user interface to Base

2013-12-05 Thread Paul
Hi Bob, I haven't played much with Base, but there are at least two ways of viewing the stored information that I know of. The first is to create a form. I know you can set the form so that you cannot add, modify or delete any data, which in effect means the form will be for viewing only. The se

[libreoffice-users] user interface to Base

2013-12-05 Thread Bob Muir
Hi all, I am a new user of LibreOffice Base and a beginner in database creation. I believe that I have figured out how to create my simple database of tables and forms. My question is "Is there a friendly, visual (GUI) thing for retrieving information from the database?" I don't want to requi