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Views</H1 ><P >Views are the way <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >Gaby</SPAN > communicates with you (and vice-versa). This means that you enter data in a view and you read it back from a view (possibly different than the one you entered data in).</P ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="AEN81" >3.1. Different kinds of views</A ></H1 ><P >Since your data can be represented in several different ways there are several different views, each useful (hum hum) and dedicated to a particular task (forms are more appropriate to enter data than lists that are more appropriate to show lots of records at the same time, ...).</P ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="AEN84" >3.1.1. Forms</A ></H2 ><P >Forms are what the name stands for: forms. Without any fancy things about: it is just a list of fields you have to fill.</P ><P >Actually they can be a bit fancier if you go to the preferences dialog and select items under "Specialized widgets". This allow to have calendar widgets to enter dates, big text area for memo fields, ...</P ><DIV CLASS="NOTE" ><P ></P ><TABLE CLASS="NOTE" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="25" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="TOP" ><IMG SRC="../images/note.gif" HSPACE="5" ALT="Note"></TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><P >Would you want a screenshot here ?</P ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="AEN90" >3.1.2. Lists</A ></H2 ><DIV CLASS="SECT3" ><H3 CLASS="SECT3" ><A NAME="AEN92" >3.1.2.1. Simple lists</A ></H3 ><P >They are really basic lists; much more interesting lists are the extended one from the next section...</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT3" ><H3 CLASS="SECT3" ><A NAME="AEN95" >3.1.2.2. Extended lists</A ></H3 ><P >This view shows every records in a list and allows quick search over any fields thanks to a text entry.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT3" ><H3 CLASS="SECT3" ><A NAME="AEN98" >3.1.2.3. Using lists to select records</A ></H3 ><P >The scope of utility of the lists might seem a bit narrow at first but the interesting thing is that you can perform queries and got the result in those lists with the "Filter" window (which is in the views menu).</P ><DIV CLASS="NOTE" ><P ></P ><TABLE CLASS="NOTE" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="25" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="TOP" ><IMG SRC="../images/note.gif" HSPACE="5" ALT="Note"></TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><P >The filter window should be fairly easy to grasp. (Right?)</P ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><P >Once you only have the records you want in a list you can print them (and only them) through the 'Selected records' checkbox in the print options.</P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="AEN104" >3.1.3. Specialized</A ></H2 ><P >Along the previously described views there are the specialized views, often only available for one kind of database (like the genealogy view).</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT2" ><H2 CLASS="SECT2" ><A NAME="AEN107" >3.1.4. 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