Re: [libreoffice-users] Help with LO Forms

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Hi Ian,
> But I'm confused. The Handbook says Calc can be used as the
> datasource for a Form in Writer.

Don't know which Handbook you mean. The Handbook Base says:

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Calc or Excel spreadsheets can also be used as the table source for
databases. If, however, a Calc spreadsheet is used, no editing of the
table data will be possible.
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Could be the translation from German to English isn't clear enough,
but I haven't written anywhere in German Base-Handbuch you could use a
spreadsheet for data-input in Base or by a form in Writer.
> Everyone else wants me to use Base but I'm NOT interested in this
> at all as I battled with it for 7 years and could never get a
> stable set-up. It crashed frequently and usually took all the data
> with it or 'gabbled' the data - so you spend more time with back
> ups and patching damaged data records. I can not let the end user
> have such an unstable program to work with. I hoped the Calc/Writer
> Form would prove more reliable.

I have created many databases, also with the internal HSQLDB. While
creating reports I got some troubles, but the users seem to have no
troubles for a long time with these databases.

For professional use I would prefer an external database like MySQL,
connected with Base.

You could use an external database also. If a spreadsheet will save
the data you need, a dBase-file will do this also.

Regards

Robert
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