Hi :) You can attach the chapter to a private email to someone such as Jean, who has access to ODFAuthors and knows what she is doing with it.
If you really want to learn how to do it yourself then this suggested work-flow might help; https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Development#Using_ODFAuthors_website or / and this guide; https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Development#Contributors_Guide You can choose which chapter of which guide/handbook you would like to work on next. This wiki might help you avoid things that other people are working on; https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Development/UserGuideTasks If you'd like a recommendation then any of chapters 5, 6 and 7 makes sense - to follow on from what you have already done. Chapter 5, about Queries, feels like a bit of a step backwards because it's usually better practice to base Forms&Reports on Queries rather than directly on Tables. However i think the aim was to quickly get something working for the User and then help them find better and better ways of doing things, and to help them discover why those ways are better. Chapter 6, about Reports, is more of a natural follow-on but is (VERY!) roughly the same sort of thing. This might be something you could race through quite quickly now and maybe use to improve your own database (i doubt it because you know enough about databases already to know the advantages and disadvantages of Forms over Reports, but it's still possible). Chapter 7, about Linking to Databases, is probably the most hugely useful one for you right now. It's the biggest advantage and main reason why Base is sooo far in advance of Access that it makes Access look like a child's toy. The "Forms" chapter in Writer might have been fairly useful but we've missed the chance for this release of the Writers Guide. No matter!! Onwards and upwards! There will be another chance to work on it in a few months time, or a years time or whenever the next version is being done. There is plenty else to do here that would also be useful! Btw i had a hard-drive failure yday but luckily turned out to be an intermittent fault and it's working again today. I still need to back-up my data! A colleague had the same problem but since he was on Windows it was a more serious problem and he's doing a full reinstall to a new drive and is restricted to just using his tablet until it gets done! It's good to hear you were able to breeze through it more easily! Many thanks and regards from Tom :) On 1 October 2014 09:40, Peter Goggin <petergog...@bigpond.com> wrote: > I have worked through chapter 4 - forms on the Base documentation. Apart > from a minor concern relating to the descriptions of the various options in > the drop down menus I found that it was a good document, and would > certainly be of help to people developing forms. Owing to a disk crash I > have lost a number of e-mails relating to this project. > Would it be possible for someone to advise me on > 1. How to check the chapter back in > 2. What chapter should I work on next? > 3. How do I check out any new chapters I work on? > 4. What are the links for downloading chapters? > > Sorry to be a pain but it has been many years since I have been involve in > a large team and I do not want to screw anything up. > > Thanks in advance > > Regards > > Peter Goggin > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- > unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
