Thanks so much. These are a help. Queries are good, but they don't end up doing what I really want to do -- just enter the data in a form and have the calculation done for you live. Other pages you offer give me some ideas. Many thanks again.
----- Original Message ----- From: "NoOp" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 12:13:59 PM Subject: [users] Re: My database woes On 01/31/2012 06:02 PM, Jeffrey Needle wrote: > Using OpenOffice 3.2 on a Linux system. > > This may sound a bit like a whine; it's actually a plea for help. > > OpenOffice's database has some fine features, but, amazingly, you can't > do simple calculations -- especially date calculations -- in the > database module. Sure you can: <ttp://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2007/03/creating_calcul.html> <http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Getting_Started/Creating_queries_and_reports> More: <http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=hp&q=openoffice+%2Bbase+%2Bcalculations> and for dates, try: <http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&biw=1173&bih=675&source=hp&q=openoffice+%2Bbase+%2Bdate+%2Bcalculations&pbx=1&oq=openoffice+%2Bbase+%2Bdate+%2Bcalculations> Samples: <http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6754> <http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=67907> <http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Built-in_functions_and_Stored_Procedures#Date_and_Time_Functions> ... -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For additional commands send email to [email protected] with Subject: help -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For additional commands send email to [email protected] with Subject: help
