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||Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on LibreOffice Base.

||In this tutorial on Modifying a Form, we will learn how to Enter data in a form, Modify a form

||In the previous tutorial, we learnt to create a form using LibreOffice Base.  

||We created a simple Books data entry form in our example Library database.  

||Let us see how we can enter data into the Books table, using this form.

||Let us first invoke the LibreOffice Base program, if it's not already open.

||And open our Library database.

||If Base is already open, then we can open the Library database from here by clicking the Open inside the File menu

||or by clicking the Recent Documents inside the File menu

||Now we are in the Library Database.  

||Let us click on the Forms icon in the Database list on the left panel.  

||Notice that the 'Books Data entry form' under Forms is highlighted in the centre of this window.

||Let us right click on this form name and click on Open.

||Now, we see a new window with a blue background with labels and text boxes corresponding to the fields in the Books table.

||Let us click on the tab key to go to each field, and as we go to the last, Base opens the next record.  

||Alternately, to simply go to a particular record, type in the record number in the bottom toolbar and press enter key or the tab key.

||Now let us add a new record.  

||To do this, click on the New Record icon, that is second right of the Last record icon in the bottom toolbar.  

||Now we are ready to add a new record, with information about a new book.

|Let us type in 'Paradise Lost' in the Title text box, and let us use tab key to navigate to the next field,

||Let us type in 'John Milton' against author

||'1975' against PublishYear

||'Oxford' against Publisher

||and 200 against price.

||There, we have just entered a new record into the Books table by using the Books Data Entry Form.  

||Let us see if Base has updated the Books table with the last record we entered just now.  

||For this, in the LibreOffice Base main window, let us double click on Books table on the right panel

||Notice the new record that we entered through the form here.   

||Next, let us learn how to make simple modifications to our form.  

||We will click on the Forms icon in the database list on the left panel.  

||And open the 'Books Data Entry form' for modifying, by right - clicking on it and then choosing 'edit'.

||A familiar window opens now,

||Except that if you click on the label 'title', you will see several small green boxes enclosing the label and the text box.  

||This means that we are in the form design window  

||And we can modify the look and feel of the form, and its elements as well as its functionalities.  

||For example, we can change the placement and size of the labels and text boxes.  

||These are also called properties.  

||Double-click on the label title.  

||This opens a smaller popup window called Properties.  

||Notice the various elements here.

||Now let us click on the label 'author', notice that the Properties window refreshes and shows the properties of label Author.  

||So as we click on various elements on the form, we see that the Properties window refreshes to show the selected element's properties.

||Now, the Properties window title reads as Properties MultiSelection.  

||This is because we see that the author label and its textbox adjacent to it, are encased in one set of green boxes.  

||Base automatically has grouped the labels and corresponding textboxes in the form.  

We can ungroup them.  

||Right click on the Title label and then click on 'Group' at the bottom then click on 'Ungroup'.  

||Now we see that the label title and its text box have been ungrouped.  

||In this way, we can modify the properties of individual elements on the form.

||Next, let us add a tool tip to the title text box.  

||Now let us scroll to the bottom in the Properties window.  

||Notice the label 'Help text' and here, let us type in 'Enter the title of the book here'

||Now, let us save the form by clicking on the Save icon below the File menu on the top. And we will close this window.

||Let us now see, how our form looks like after the modification that we made.  

||For this, let us go to the Base main window, click on the Forms icon on the left panel,

||And double-click on 'Books Data Entry Form' on the right panel.  

||Let us point the mouse over the title label or the text box.  

||Notice that a tooltip appears saying 'Enter the title of the book here'.

||So now, we have learnt how to make a simple modification to our form.  

||We will see how to make more modifications to a form in the next part of the Base tutorial.

||Create a simple form for the Members table.

||This brings us to the end of this tutorial on Modifying a Form in LibreOffice Base.

|To summarize, we learned: how to enter data in a form,how to Modify a form

||Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project, supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India.  

||This project is co-ordinated by http://spoken-tutorial.org.  

||This Script has been contributed by Priya Suresh, DesuCrew solutions.

 

And this is Soundharya, desi crew solutions, signing off.

 

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