Double-click on the Address Book table to see your imported data
Click finish, name and save the new file. Yes, register the database for me and open the database for editing. Importing this into Base is so easy your cat can do it: You can import their data into Base, but whenever you make a change to the source document you have to import the new data you can’t change it or directly access it from Base. Address books, spreadsheets, and delimited text files are read-only. So it also functions as a graphical front-end to other databases, and you can use it to edit and change them. Yours may have some different options, depending on your Linux distribution.īase can connect directly to most relational databases, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Adabas D, or any database that supports the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) or Java database connectivity (JDBC) drivers. But the good news is Base can import data from most other databases, spreadsheets, text-delimited files, and email address books. Your contacts list must be in Base, which is a bit of a pain. The steps for setting up any mail-merge document in OpenOffice are easy the one potentially gnarly bit is creating your contacts database in the first place. creating linked data ranges in CALC files for data pilot analysis or as the basis for charts.įor more information on working with Base, please see the Apache OpenOffice Wiki Database pages.įor technical information, or to help make Base even better, stop by the Base project page.Last week we learned how to make pages of labels, business cards, and form letters using OpenOffice Writer and Base. supplying address book data for mail merge in WRITER using the industry standard LDAP protocol, or common address book formats such as Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Windows and Mozilla. In addition, support for JDBC and ODBC standard drivers allows you to connect to virtually any existing database.īase integrates seamlessly into the rest of the Apache OpenOffice suite applications, for example: When a personal use database is all you need, Base offers the full HSQL relational database engine, configured for single user, with the data stored right in the Base file, as well as native support for dBase flat files.įor power users in the enterprise, Base delivers native support drivers for a variety of multi-user database engines: MySQL, Adabas D, MS Access and PostgreSQL. producing a corporate monthly departmental sales report.īase offers wizards to help users new to database design (or just new to Base) to create Tables, Queries, Forms and Reports, along with a set of predefined table definitions for tracking Assets, Customers, Sales Orders, Invoices and much more. just tracking your personal CD collection, to. 
Base is a fully featured desktop database management system, designed to meet the needs of a broad array of users, from
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