Relational Databases for Archaeology

Data Entry Forms

In Libreoffice Base, we can set up data entry forms that provide a friendly user interface for entering new data and modifying or deleting existing data.  This is the main advantage to using Base on top of PostgreSQL.  Forms allow you to arrange your fields visually on the page in order to establish a logical order of data entry operations.  You get to decide how big each field is and which fields are displayed next to each other.  This gives you much more control over the user experience than entering data into a table.  In this section we will first put together some simple forms, one for each table.  Then we will advance to connecting table data entry using subforms.

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Contents of this path:

  1. Individual Forms
  2. Subforms and Related Tables