<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible">Here all links to the current data source that have been entered are listed as Form documents.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="P2">In <help:productname xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">%PRODUCTNAME</help:productname> you have access to the data sources that you register and administer under <span class="T1">Tools - Data sources</span>. On the right of the Data source view (F4) you see the data in tabular form and on the left, in the database explorer, the data sources with your links, queries and tables.</p>
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<p class="P2">You can assign your documents, e.g. text documents or spreadsheets, as a data source <span class="T1">Link</span>. This serves exclusively to provide, from the data source view, easy access to the documents - a further connection between document and data source is indeed possible, but is unnecessary.</p>
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<p class="P2">In your documents, irrespective of whether you create a link or not, by using the<help:switch select="Program" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"><help:case select="WRITER"><help:link Id="67628">Field commands</help:link></help:case><help:default>Field commands</help:default></help:switch> and/or <help:link Id="66036" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">Form functions</help:link> you can also make reference to the current contents in each case of the data fields of a data source. For example, with the form functions you can <help:link Id="66190" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">create any forms</help:link>.</p>
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<p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">In summary:</span>Any text document or spreadsheet can contain data source contents. You can add these and other documents as links in the data source view, in order to access these documents more easily from the data source view. This administration of links is at your discretion.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">In the list box you can administer the links to the current data source.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible">Create a new link here.</help:help-text> You see the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Document - Link - New</span>dialog:</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible">Enter the URL here or select it after clicking <span style="font-weight:bold;">... </span>.</help:help-text></p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible">This is where you edit the selected link.</help:help-text> You see the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Document - Link - Edit</span> dialog, that corresponds to the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Document - Link - New </span>dialog.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible">Here delete the selected link.</help:help-text> Only the assignment of this document to the data source is deleted, not the document itself.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible">Opens a new document of the selected document type. Add the form fields or field commands you want and save the document. It is automatically entered as a link.</help:help-text></p>