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 second way is to create a report. It really depends on what you want people to be able to see as to which would suit you better. Forms are more for viewing a single table one record at a time, whereas reports are more for generating a listing of information from the database, possibly from multiple joined tables, and usually only a subset of the data for each record (but again that depends on how much data there is), and possibly grouped, with subtotals and stuff. Play a little and see if one of these two don't meet your needs, otherwise feel free to provide a little more details about what you want to achieve and someone here might come up with a better way. Of course there are other ways outside of LO, like custom frontends, possibly web frontends, but I'm not sure if you need that sort of thing. Paul On Thu, 5 Dec 2013 14:25:35 -0500 "Bob Muir" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 require > anyone to write SQL code or use the query design view provided by > Base. > > It is possible that the database might be placed on a web server if > that makes a difference. > > Thanks, > > Bob -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
