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Time Narration
00:00 Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on LibreOffice Base.
00:04 In this tutorial, we will learn how to:
00:08 Access other Data Sources
00:10 Register '.odb' databases
00:15 View Data sources
00:17 And Use Data Sources in Writer.
00:22 Let us see how we can access other Data Sources in Base.
00:28 Libre Office allows other data sources to be accessed apart from Base Databases.
00:37 It also allows to link them into other Libre Office documents.
00:43 For example, we can access a spreadsheet or a simple text document from inside LibreOffice Base.
00:53 And then link them into a LibreOffice Writer document.
00:58 As an example, let us create an example spreadsheet using LibreOffice Calc.
01:06 Click on Start Menu >> All Programs and open the LibreOffice Suite menu.
01:16 Or, if LibreOffice is already open then we can click on File, New and then Spreadsheet to open a new spreadsheet.
01:30 Now, in the spreadsheet, let us type in some sample data as shown in the image. <pause>
01:46 And save this spreadsheet as ‘LibraryMembers’ in a directory location.
01:54 Now, let us remember the location as we will need to use this file later in our example.
02:02 And we will close the Calc window.
02:07 Okay, now let us see how we can access this spreadsheet from 'LibreOffice Base'.
02:15 To do this, open Base either from Windows Start menu
02:25 or if LibreOffice is already open then we will click on File, New and then Database.
02:36 Now, this opens the Database Wizard.
02:39 Here, we will click on the ‘Connect to an existing database’
02:45 then click on the drop-down.
02:48 Notice the various database sources in this list that Base can access.
02:55 And we will click on Spreadsheet here.
02:59 And the Next button.
03:02 Now, using the browse button, let us locate the spreadsheet from where we saved it earlier.
03:10 If there is a password for the spreadsheet, we will need to provide it too.
03:16 Here we won’t need it.
03:19 Let us click on the Next button.
03:22 Now let us register the spreadsheet as a data source
03:27 and open it for editing.
03:32 And, click on the Finish button.
03:36 Now, let us provide a database name here. Let us type in "LibraryMembers".
03:44 Notice the Save as type: It says ODF Database which is '.odb' in our case.
03:56 And Save it in the same location as the spreadsheet.
04:01 There we have registered the spreadsheet as a data source in Base.
04:07 We are in the main Base window now.
04:11 Here, let us click on the Tables icon in the left panel.
04:16 Notice the tables ‘Sheet1’, Sheet2, and 'Sheet3'.
04:23 Let us double-click on Sheet1 to open it and here is the data from the spreadsheet.
04:31 Now, with this method of accessing the Spreadsheet, we cannot make any changes from here.
04:39 We can only view data or create queries and reports based on the existing data from here.
04:47 So, changes have to be made directly to the Spreadsheet itself.
04:54 Registering '.odb' databases.
04:59 Now, there are other programs such as OpenOffice.org that can produce '.odb' databases.
05:11 To use these inside LibreOffice Base, we will first need to register them in Base.
05:19 To register any '.odb' database, we will need to open Base and
05:28 choose Tools, Options, LibreOffice Base and Databases.
05:36 Under Registered Databases, click New.
05:42 Browse to where the database is located and ensure the registered name is correct
05:51 and Click on the OK button.
05:55 Let us see how we can view Data sources in LibreOffice.
06:01 For this, let us consider the example spreadsheet that we registered in Base.
06:07 Now, we can use it in LibreOffice Writer or Calc.
06:12 For example, let us see how we can view it inside 'LibreOffice Writer'.
06:19 First, let us open Writer from the 'Base' window.
06:24 For this, let us click on File, New and then Text Document.
06:33 Now we are in the Writer window.
06:36 To view the available data sources, we will click on the View menu at the top and click on Data Sources.
06:46 Alternately, we can press the F4 key.
06:52 Now we see a list of registered databases at the top left, including "LibraryMembers" which we created just now.
07:03 To view the database, we will expand it by clicking on the plus symbol on the left of the database name
07:14 and we will expand Tables.
07:18 Here are Sheet1, 2 and 3.
07:24 Let us click on Sheet 1.
07:28 So, that’s our data at the top right of the Writer window.
07:36 Now we will see how we can use this data in our example Writer document.
07:43 Okay, here if we want to use all of the data from the table above then first we will select all the records there.
07:55 For this, let us click on the gray cell to the left of the first column in the first record.
08:05 Then, while pressing Shift key, we will click on the gray cell to the left of the first column in the last record.
08:17 Notice that all the data gets highlighted.
08:21 Now we will click, drag and drop this onto the Writer document below.
08:30 Next, we see a pop-up window titled Insert Database columns.
08:37 So here, we will click on the Table option at the top
08:42 and then click on the double-arrow button to move all the fields from the left to the right list.
08:52 Notice the various choices here.
08:56 For now, we will simply click on the OK button.
09:00 And here is the entire table of data in the document.
09:05 Next, let us see how we can insert individual fields.
09:13 Let us go to the top of the Writer document and press the Enter key twice. Again, go to the top left.
09:22 Here, let us type in "Member Name" colon.
09:28 And then click on the Name column in the data sources area at the top right.
09:36 Now we will click, drag and drop it next to the text we typed.
09:43 And we will press the Tab key and type in "Phone number" colon.
09:51 And..... we know what to do, don’t we?
09:55 We will click and drag the Phone column from the top and drop it next to our text.
10:04 Then let us highlight the first record by clicking the gray cell to the left of the first record.
10:13 And then, we will click on the Data to Fields icon.
10:19 This can be found in the Table Data toolbar at the top, below the Formatting toolbar.
10:27 Notice that the data in the table above is now in the Writer document.
10:35 To bring in another record, we just have to highlight a different record and use the Data to Fields icon again.
10:46 So, there we learnt how to use data sources inside LibreOffice documents.
10:54 This brings us to the end of this tutorial on Accessing other Data Sources in LibreOffice Base.
11:01 To summarize, we learned how to:
11:05 Access other Data Sources
11:07 Register .odb databases
11:12 View Data sources
11:14 And Use Data Sources in Writer.
11:19 Spoken Tutorial project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project,
11:23 supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India.
11:30 This project is coordinated by http://spoken-tutorial.org.
11:35 More information on the same is available at the following link.
11:44 This script has been contributed by Priya Suresh, DesiCrew Solutions. And this is Soundharya, DesiCrew Solutions, signing off.

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