Hi Yessica, If you really need help with the API, and its database related parts in particular, I strongly recommend http://forum.openoffice.org where you find lots of tutorials, snippets, pictures, links, example documents and the biggest community of OpenOffice experts.
One of the most serious misconceptions about OpenOffice is that Base is a database application. It is far, far away from that. You can connect to external databases (please forget the built-in one) and use the connected database content in ordinary office documents for your serial letters, bibliographic stuff, labels, for calculation models or pretty printing of database content. That's almost all you can do with it. All the rest which may attract some MS Access users is extremely buggy, underdeveloped, completely insufficiewnt (thus misleading) and not worth trying. Input forms are very, very, very simple. If you get the hang of it, you can do amazing things with input forms without writing a single line of stupid Basic code (that lingo is totally inappropriate anyway). For me, Base is the most important component because we hardly use a single text documents nor spreadsheet that is not connected to some type of database one way or the other. I have learned to ignore most of the Base features that had been introduced in version 2. This way I get the maximum benefit out of the database connectivity features. Base tutorials: http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewforum.php?f=83 Database examples: http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewforum.php?f=100 Base related user questions: http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewforum.php?f=13 Focussing on the API: http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewforum.php?f=20 Most recently active topics: http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/search.php?search_id=active_topics See you, A.S.
