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00:00 Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on LibreOffice Base.
00:04 In this tutorial on Modifying a Form, we will learn how to Enter data in a form, Modify a form
00:14 In the previous tutorial, we learnt to create a form using LibreOffice Base.
00:22 We created a simple Books data entry form in our example Library database.
00:29 Let us see how we can enter data into the Books table, using this form.
00:39 Let us first invoke the LibreOffice Base program, if it's not already open.
00:48 And open our Library database.
00:52 If Base is already open, then we can open the Library database from here by clicking the Open inside the File menu
01:03 or by clicking the Recent Documents inside the File menu
01:08 Now we are in the Library Database.
01:12 Let us click on the Forms icon in the Database list on the left panel.
01:18 Notice that the 'Books Data entry form' under Forms is highlighted in the centre of this window.
01:28 Let us right click on this form name and click on Open.
01:33 Now, we see a new window with a blue background with labels and text boxes corresponding to the fields in the Books table.
01:45 Let us click on the tab key to go to each field, and as we go to the last, Base opens the next record.
01:56 This way we can traverse the records.
02:00 Or we can also use the black triangle icons in the bottom toolbar to navigate among the records.
02:10 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.
02:23 Let us go to the last record which is the fifth.
02:29 Now let us add a new record.
02:34 To do this, click on the New Record icon, that is second right of the Last record icon in the bottom toolbar.
02:46 Notice that we see empty text boxes and the record number at the bottom says 6.
02:55 Now we are ready to add a new record, with information about a new book.
03:03 Let us type in 'Paradise Lost' in the Title text box, and let us use tab key to navigate to the next field,
03:17 Let us type in 'John Milton' against author
03:23 '1975' against PublishYear
03:28 'Oxford' against Publisher
03:31 and 200 against price.
03:36 There, we have just entered a new record into the Books table by using the Books Data Entry Form.
03:45 We will close this window.
03:47 We can add more records or data in this way.
03:53 Let us see if Base has updated the Books table with the last record we entered just now.
04:02 For this, in the LibreOffice Base main window, let us double click on Books table on the right panel
04:12 Notice the new record that we entered through the form here.
04:18 Okay, we will close this window now.
04:23 Next, let us learn how to make simple modifications to our form.
04:30 We will click on the Forms icon in the database list on the left panel.
04:37 And open the 'Books Data Entry form' for modifying, by right - clicking on it and then choosing 'edit'.
04:47 A familiar window opens now,
04:51 Except that if you click on the label 'title', you will see several small green boxes enclosing the label and the text box.
05:03 This means that we are in the form design window
05:08 And we can modify the look and feel of the form, and its elements as well as its functionalities.
05:17 For example, we can change the placement and size of the labels and text boxes.
05:25 These are also called properties.
05:28 Double-click on the label title.
05:31 This opens a smaller popup window called Properties.
05:38 Notice the various elements here.
05:48 Now let us click on the label 'author', notice that the Properties window refreshes and shows the properties of label Author.
06:01 So as we click on various elements on the form, we see that the Properties window refreshes to show the selected element's properties.
06:14 Now, the Properties window title reads as Properties MultiSelection.
06:21 This is because we see that the author label and its textbox adjacent to it, are encased in one set of green boxes.
06:34 Base automatically has grouped the labels and corresponding textboxes in the form.

We can ungroup them.

06:44 Right click on the Title label and then click on 'Group' at the bottom then click on 'Ungroup'.
06:54 Now we see that the label title and its text box have been ungrouped.
07:02 In this way, we can modify the properties of individual elements on the form.
07:10 Next, let us add a tool tip to the title text box.
07:16 Now let us scroll to the bottom in the Properties window.
07:22 Notice the label 'Help text' and here, let us type in 'Enter the title of the book here'
07:32 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.
07:46 Let us now see, how our form looks like after the modification that we made.
07:54 For this, let us go to the Base main window, click on the Forms icon on the left panel,
08:03 And double-click on 'Books Data Entry Form' on the right panel.
08:10 Let us point the mouse over the title label or the text box.
08:17 Notice that a tooltip appears saying 'Enter the title of the book here'.
08:24 So now, we have learnt how to make a simple modification to our form.
08:31 We will see how to make more modifications to a form in the next part of the Base tutorial.
08:39 Here is an assignment.
08:41 Create a simple form for the Members table.
08:46 This brings us to the end of this tutorial on Modifying a Form in LibreOffice Base.
08:52 To summarize, we learned: how to enter data in a form,how to Modify a form
09:00 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.
09:12 This project is co-ordinated by http://spoken-tutorial.org.
09:17 More information on the same is available at the following link.
09:22 This Script has been contributed by Priya Suresh, DesuCrew solutions.

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