Re: [libreoffice-users] Base graphics/visualization

2014-06-25 Thread Wolfgang Keller
I have been collecting data for over a year in Calc. I will be rolling over to Base to use the data more effectively. One word of free advice: Avoid the built in database engine. Use an external client-server RDBMS. It's so much safer. The driver for PostgreSQL comes with LO. Embedded database

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base graphics/visualization

2014-06-25 Thread dave boland
Thanks Wolfgang! Dave On Wed, Jun 25, 2014, at 07:27 AM, Wolfgang Keller wrote: I have been collecting data for over a year in Calc. I will be rolling over to Base to use the data more effectively. One word of free advice: Avoid the built in database engine. Use an external

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base graphics/visualization

2014-06-23 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Dave, Nope it is the same module although it is being updated. Best, Charles. On 22 juin 2014 23:48:03 CEST, dave boland dbola...@fastmail.fm wrote: Yes, I have used charts in Calc. However, it looks like Charts is being pulled out as a new module, not just in Calc.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base graphics/visualization

2014-06-23 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Many, many people do goof on the resend. The mailing-lists here are set-up to ensure that it does happen. Glad you noticed and were able to fix it. Most people don't realise! Apache are far better at supporting Base. Here we rely on a few regulars who happen to be extremely good with it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base graphics/visualization

2014-06-22 Thread anne-ology
I too am interested in knowing if how LO can do graphs, et.al.. From: dave boland dbola...@fastmail.fm Date: Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 10:42 PM Subject: [libreoffice-users] Base graphics/visualization To: users@global.libreoffice.org All, I have been collecting data for over a year in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base graphics/visualization

2014-06-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) As i understand it Calc and Writer are meant to be used for the Forms and Reports. The in-built FormsReports are just to make Base more familiar for people moving away from MS Access. Similarly Base also allows data tables to be kept internally in the in-built back-end = just like MS

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base graphics/visualization

2014-06-22 Thread dave boland
What I want to be able to do is (for now) have a pdf report that shows the statistics (records, averages, deviations) and charts that show up to four variables on the same axis. So the first question is can I do that with Base and Calc? This needs to be automated so that each day I run a report

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base graphics/visualization

2014-06-22 Thread dave boland
I just went to the LO page and see they have a module called Charts. I have 4.1, but the Charts module is not included, so my guess is that it is part of the new release next month. Anyway, does anyone familiar with Charts think that this may be an answer? Dave, On Sun, Jun 22, 2014, at 03:23

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base graphics/visualization

2014-06-22 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Dave, The charts/diagrams have been around for a long time. You can insert one on a spreadsheet by going to the Insert menu then selecting Charts. Best, Charles. On 22 juin 2014 21:53:40 CEST, dave boland dbola...@fastmail.fm wrote: I just went to the LO page and see they have a module

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base graphics/visualization

2014-06-22 Thread dave boland
Yes, I have used charts in Calc. However, it looks like Charts is being pulled out as a new module, not just in Calc. http://www.libreoffice.org/discover/charts/ Dave, On Sun, Jun 22, 2014, at 04:19 PM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Dave, The charts/diagrams have been around for a long time.

Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] Base graphics/visualization

2014-06-22 Thread dave boland
Oops! I goofed on the resend - sorry! - Original message - From: dave boland [1]dbola...@fastmail.fm To: Tom Davies [2]tomc...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Base graphics/visualization Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 22:52:16 -0400 Tom, This brings us full circle back to where I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base graphics/visualization

2014-06-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) This handbook and the guide might help https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#LibreOffice_Base_Handbook and the Faq https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq/Base They might mainly cover the simplest cases, of using just the in-built stuff but hopefully gives enough