1*cdf0e10cSrcweir<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2*cdf0e10cSrcweir 3*cdf0e10cSrcweir 4*cdf0e10cSrcweir<!--*********************************************************************** 5*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 6*cdf0e10cSrcweir * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 7*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 8*cdf0e10cSrcweir * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 9*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 10*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 11*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 12*cdf0e10cSrcweir * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 13*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 14*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 15*cdf0e10cSrcweir * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 16*cdf0e10cSrcweir * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 17*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 18*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 19*cdf0e10cSrcweir * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 20*cdf0e10cSrcweir * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 21*cdf0e10cSrcweir * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details 22*cdf0e10cSrcweir * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). 23*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 24*cdf0e10cSrcweir * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 25*cdf0e10cSrcweir * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see 26*cdf0e10cSrcweir * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 27*cdf0e10cSrcweir * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 28*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 29*cdf0e10cSrcweir ************************************************************************--> 30*cdf0e10cSrcweir 31*cdf0e10cSrcweir<helpdocument version="1.0"> 32*cdf0e10cSrcweir<meta> 33*cdf0e10cSrcweir<topic id="textsharedguidedata_viewxhp" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 34*cdf0e10cSrcweir<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Viewing a Database</title> 35*cdf0e10cSrcweir<filename>/text/shared/guide/data_view.xhp</filename> 36*cdf0e10cSrcweir</topic> 37*cdf0e10cSrcweir<history> 38*cdf0e10cSrcweir<created date="2004-08-19T12:40:42">viewing a database</created> 39*cdf0e10cSrcweir<lastedited date="2005-09-13T09:26:35">checked - yj</lastedited> 40*cdf0e10cSrcweir</history> 41*cdf0e10cSrcweir</meta> 42*cdf0e10cSrcweir<body> 43*cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id2339854"><bookmark_value>opening;database files</bookmark_value> 44*cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark_value>viewing; databases</bookmark_value> 45*cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark_value>data sources;viewing</bookmark_value> 46*cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark_value>databases;viewing</bookmark_value> 47*cdf0e10cSrcweir</bookmark> 48*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN105A6" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW"><variable id="data_view"><link href="text/shared/guide/data_view.xhp">Viewing a Database</link> 49*cdf0e10cSrcweir</variable></paragraph> 50*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN105C4" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">There are two different methods of viewing a database in %PRODUCTNAME.</paragraph> 51*cdf0e10cSrcweir<list type="unordered"> 52*cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 53*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN105CA" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Choose <emph>File - Open</emph> to open the database file.</paragraph> 54*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN105D1" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">The <link href="text/shared/explorer/database/dabadoc.xhp">database file</link> gives you full access to tables, queries, reports, and forms. You can edit the structure of your tables and change the contents of the data records.</paragraph> 55*cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 56*cdf0e10cSrcweir<listitem> 57*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN105E3" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Choose <emph>View - Data source</emph> to view the registered databases.</paragraph> 58*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN105EA" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">The <link href="text/shared/guide/database_main.xhp">data source view</link> can be used to drag-and-drop table fields from registered databases into your documents and to produce mail merges.</paragraph> 59*cdf0e10cSrcweir</listitem> 60*cdf0e10cSrcweir</list> 61*cdf0e10cSrcweir<section id="relatedtopics"> 62*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10606" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"> 63*cdf0e10cSrcweir<embedvar href="text/shared/explorer/database/main.xhp#base"/> 64*cdf0e10cSrcweir</paragraph> 65*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1060E" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"> 66*cdf0e10cSrcweir<embedvar href="text/shared/guide/database_main.xhp#database_main"/> 67*cdf0e10cSrcweir</paragraph> 68*cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 69*cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 70*cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 71