How to connect a table to creating Report on LibreOffice Base

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LibreOffice is a powerful office suite – its clean interface and feature-rich tools help you unleash your creativity and enhance your productivity. LibreOffice includes several applications that make it the most powerful Free and Open Source office suite on the market: Writer (word processing), Calc (spreadsheets), Impress (presentations), Draw (vector graphics and flowcharts), Base (databases), and Math (formula editing). More Information

What Will I Learn?

In the video I give an explanation how to create Query and using group, count, and sum function in OpenOffice base.

• You will learn to create a report.
• You will learn how to connect your table with the report you want to create.
• You will learn How to add Page headers, Date and time, and Page of Number to the Report you will create.
• You will learn to edit Font style, size, underline.

What is LibreOffice Database?

LibreOffice Base is a LibreOffice application component that works to create and manipulate a structured database.

Based on LibreOffice's official website, LibreOffice base can be explained as below.

Base is a full-featured desktop database front end, designed to meet the needs of a broad array of users. Base caters to power users and enterprise requirements, providing native-support drivers for some of the most widely employed multi-user database engines: MySQL/MariaDB, Adabas D, MS Access and PostgreSQL. In addition, the built-in support for JDBC- and ODBC-standard drivers allows you to connect to virtually any other existing database engine as well.

What is LibreOffice Base Report?

A report is a Writer text document that can show your data in an organized order and formatting. In LibreOffice Base, you have a choice to create a report either manually using drag-and-drop in the Report Builder window, or semi-automatic by following a series of dialogs in the Report Wizard.
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Or you can read Wikipedia for more information.

Requirements

• System Requirements : Program Install Support Install and Uninstall
• System Requirements : No special requirements.
• OS Support : Windows (XP, 2003, Vista, 7, 8 and 10) GNU/Linux (x86 and x86-64, RPM and DEB based Linux distributions) Mac OS X (x86-64 only)

Information

• Website & Download : https://www.libreoffice.org/
• Type : Office suite software
• License : MPLv2.0 (secondary license GPL, LGPLv3+ or Apache License 2.0)[9]
• Operating System : Linux, Windows, macOS,[5] FreeBSD, OpenBSD,[6] NetBSD, Android (Viewer)
• Platform : IA-32, x86-64, ARMel, ARMhf, MIPS, MIPSel, PowerPC, Sparc, S390, S390x, IA-64 (additional Debian platforms)[7]

Difficulty

Intermediate

Description

LibreOffice suite comprises programs for word processing, the creation and editing of spreadsheets, slideshows, diagrams and drawings, working with databases, and composing mathematical formulae. In the video below, I explain how to create a report and how to edit a report, I explain how to edit header, date and time, page of number, font style, underlining and more. To more detail please go to video i have attached

Little additional explanation

The photo above is my basic table data that I want to make into a report.

The photo above is the result of making a Report.

Video Tutorial

Curriculum

This is my first Video Tutorial on LibreOffice

However I have made some Video Tutorials how to use Apache OpenOffice, you can see it below :

• Apache Open Office learn to create relationship on OpenOffice Base
• Apache OpenOffice learn to use Mail Merge
• Apache OpenOffice Formula learning (1)
• Apache OpenOffice Formula learning (2)
• And if you want to know more of tutorials you can directly see on my profile

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