[libreoffice-users] Re: How to make dbase engine work in LO Base

On 09/28/2011 10:43 PM, Aleksey wrote:
> Andreas Säger wrote:
>
> > Base never opens any files other than the .odb files it creates.
> > You always connect Base to some tabular data source.
> >
> > File>New>Database... [X] Connect to existing... Type: <dBase> 
> > Specify the directory (dBase has always been a database in a
> > directory) [x] Register data source Save the .odb file
> >
> > The .odb file is just a configuration file. It does not contain
> > any database data. You may add simple SQL queries to that
> > configuration.
...
> I described my operation a bit obscure. I have done the mentioned
> procedure (I mean "Connect to existing database"->"dbase"-> other
> procedures mentioned above) and after that I saw a database without
> any tables. My question: is there anyone who have seen that
> connection to dbase databases work in LO Base 3.4?

Yes. I have an old version of ACT contact database .dbf files on my
system (linux) and using 3.4.3 I set the directory as instructed by
Andreas, the databases appear in Base, I click on one and all the data
is there. Note that you need to click on the database, then in the view
window click on 'None' and change to 'Document' in order to see the data
in the view window. You can of course also right-click on the database
and select to 'Open', 'Edit', 'Copy', etc.






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