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V: Document version
A: OpenOffice.org version in which the functionality described in this document is/will be available.
D: Date of the last change to the document
T: Document type
Database Application
Specification Name: Description: Author: V A D T
Report Designer Specification for the new Report Designer Ocke Janssen 1.8 2.3. 2008-10-30 odt
Functions property browser Specification hot to create simple functions with the report property browser Ocke Janssen 0.1 2.4 2007-11-06 odt
The conditional formatting dialog Specification for the conditional formatting dialog in the Report Designer Bettina Haberer 0.1 2.3. 2007-05-21 odt
Link CSV/Text files into HSQL databases HSQLDB, the default database engine used by OpenOffice.org Base, features linkage of CSV/Text files, handling them as if they were native HSQL tables, including applicability of the full power of the HSQL database engine.
This document describes an user interface, implemented for OpenOffice.org Base, which allows to conveniently manage those linked tables in an HSQL database.
Frank Schönheit 0.3 t.b.d. 2006-11-27 odt
Queries in Queries For certain database backends, OpenOffice.org supports using queries in queries. Frank Schönheit 1.0.1 2.0.4 2006-10-11 odt
Data Source Property dialog This document describes the handling of data source properties in OO.org 2.0. Ocke Janssen 1.4 2.4 2007-11-12 sxw
Database Application The document describes the new database application. Ocke Janssen 1.1 2.2 2005-02-01 sxw
Database Registration dialog The document describes the new database registration dialog.
Ocke Janssen 1.4 2.2 2004-01-28
sxw
Export and Import of Queries The document describes a feature to provide the easy importing and exporting of queries (SQL statements) created within OOo Base. Phill Gillespie 1.0 t.b.d. 2004-06-13 sxw
Embedded Database The document describes a feature to embed any kind of databases. Ocke Janssen 1.0 2.2 2004-11-08 sxw
Wizards
Specification Name: Description: Author: V A D T
ReportWizard This document describes the functionality of the report wizard. With this wizard it is possible to generate reports with a lot of different styles from a database document. Berend Cornelius 1.1 2.2 2005-03-10 sxw
Query Wizard The new query wizard Berend Cornelius 1.0 2.2 2004-01-26 sxw
Table Wizard The new table wizard Berend Cornelius 1.0 2.2 2003-12-18 sxw
Form Wizard The new improved form wizard Berend Cornelius 1.1 2.2 2003-12-19 sxw
Database Wizard The main entry point into the database application (OpenOffice.org Base) is a wizard which guides the user through the creation of a database document. Frank Schönheit 1.1.4 2.2 2005-06-27 sxw
Architecture
Specification Name: Description: Author: V A D T
Address Book Architecture This document aims to provide an overview of the technologies related to the integration of the address-book feature into OpenOffice.org and Mozilla, a summary of the address-book types supported and their respective underlying API's, and ... Colm Smyth n/a 1.1.1 n/a html

Database Driver Core Functionality
Specification Name: Description: Author: V A D T
File based functions This document describes the SQL functions implemented by file based database drivers. Ocke Janssen n/a 1.1.1 n/a html

Forms and Form Controls
Specification Name: Description: Author: V A D T
Scroll Bar Form Control A form control which acts as a scrollbar. Frank Schönheit 1.0 2.2 2003-11-05 sxw
Spin Button Form Control A form control which acts as a spinbutton. Frank Schönheit 1.0 2.2 2003-11-05 sxw
Property Browser Enhancements Changes to the form/control property browser which hopefully increase its usability Frank Schönheit 1.0.3 2.2 2004-03-03 sxw
A Rich Text Form Control This document describes a control which allows displaying and editing rich text. Frank Schönheit 1.0.2 2.2 2005-02-17 sxw
Navigation Bar Form Control This document describes a control which provides the functionality from the well-known form navigation toolbar. Frank Schönheit 1.0.2 2.2 2004-07-15 sxw
Form Navigation Functionality for Push Buttons This document describes an extension to push button controls, which allows to easily assign common form navigation functionality (such as moving the form to a new record) to those buttons. Frank Schönheit 1.0.1 2.2 2004-04-05 sxw
Handling Line Ends in MultiLine Text Fields specifies how to handle different line ends ("DOS-like" (CR LF) vs. "Unix-like" (LF)) in form controls. Frank Schönheit 1.0 2.2 2004-04-26 sxw
Form Controls: Interoperability I OpenOffice.org's form controls will be refit with various new properties, which allow to modify appearance-related aspects of them which previously could not be customized. This gives .... Frank Schönheit 1.0 2.2 2004-06-18 sxw
Multi Column List and Combo Box Controls OpenOffice.org extends its existing list and combo box form controls to allow for more than one column. That is, ... Frank Schönheit 0.2 t.b.d. 2005-06-01 odt

Miscellaneous
Specification Name: Description: Author: V A D T
Character Sets for Database Access OpenOffice.org, Unicode-enabled itself, allows to access non-Unicode (8-Bit) databases. Thus when transfering string data from connections to such databases .... Frank Schönheit n/a 1.1.1 n/a html
Drag and Drop in the Datasource browser Describes what should be possible to drag&drop in the datasource browser. Frank Schönheit n/a 1.1.1 n/a html
Data Exchange in the form navigator This document describes the data exchange functionality in the form navigator. This is the small floater which can be switched ..... Frank Schönheit n/a 1.1.1 n/a html
Auto-Increment values This document describes a general way to create and retrieve auto increment values. Ocke Janssen n/a 1.1.1 n/a html
MySQL data source page This document describes the data source page, which will be displayed when choosing MySQL as database type in the data source administration dialog Ocke Janssen n/a 1.1.1 n/a html
ADO Browse Dialog This document describes a browse dialog we want to add to data source administration dialog of ADO datasource. Wind li 1.0 2.2 2003-12-17 sxw
LDAP Authentication This document describes the LDAP authentication enhancement. Wind li 1.1 2.2 2003-12-17 sxw
Write Access To AddressBooks This document is for i20338 Q-PCD Database-15: Read and Write access to Address Books. Wind li 0.2 2.0 2004-04-19 sxw
Mozab Enhance
This document describes the changes need to be made to access multiple Mozilla profiles and Thunderbird profiles.
Wind li 1.0 2.2 2005-01-31
sxw
KDE Address Book Access
OpenOffice.org will be enabled to access the KDE Address Book data, if running on a KDE system.
Frank Schönheit 0.4 2.0.2 2005-12-13 odt