LibreOffice-Suite-Base/C2/Modify-a-simple-form/English-timed

Time	Narration
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 PublishedYear,
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 pop-up 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 un-group 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 tool-tip 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.
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09:22	This Script has been contributed by Priya Suresh, DesiCrew solutions. And this is Soundharya, DesiCrew solutions, signing off. Thanks for joining.

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