Hello, Thank you very much for your answer. I am very grateful indeed indicated but unfortunately I can not participate in this forum. I am registered with the office open forum in Spanish, as this is my native language, but unfortunately I had a problem with a person named Mauricio of that forum. And since then, no one answers any question in the forum. The issue was that I was asking questions about macros, and he said that he must first learn all the Base interface, and before that I should not do macros. To which I replied that the questions arise in a nonlinear order and not always the natural order of things. And unfortunately I have commitments to fulfill, and I'm not learning Open Office only because I like it, but this would be my ideal, unfortunately not my reality. I think the one bothered by this and all the forum with me, since I never answered anything. I do not know if they communicate with people of the same forum in English, but then I joined the forum and no one answered my questions, I guess I'm marked with a cross in the world of Open Office for this little problem I had with Mauricio, but at no time was I rude to him or disrespect him. Just say my humble opinion on the issues. The truth that I do not like to use Visual Basic macros, if I had my way not used, but so far I can not understand what you tell me I can do things apart from them. What do you recommend? Regards, Yessica
2013/2/7 Andreas Säger <[email protected]> > 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. >
