Hi :) It's fine posting to the Users List to start with. We might be able to deal with issues directly and if not then we can signpost you to more appropriate places.
I'm not sure why "OfficeSecurity" is involved so they might be dropped from subsequent replies. Base forms and reports 'should' be written in Writer or Calc rather than in Base itself shouldn't they? That would protect users from seeing the Base interface and just present normal users with the familiar interface they get in Writer or Calc. With macros i think the problem is that MS uses a different language for macros and their macros keep being used as an attack vector for malware. So, all sorts of ways have had to be built to prevent macros from executing whenever they want. Sadly, LibreOffice uses a different version of Basic that doesn't seem to have had security issues "out in the wild" (afaik). A couple of times people have been urged to upgrade to new branches to avoid known issues that were fixed in the newer branch but that was almost entirely preventative rather than reactive. I think LibreOffice even allows a few other languages to be used, such as Python. So, if people write macros using the language(s) that LibreOffice uses then presumably those macros don't have to be imported/converted? Sorry i don't know any of this from 1st hand experience but just have my opinions built-up from the many posts on the Users List about these topics so i could easily have misunderstood things. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Rodrigo Bigo <rodrigob...@ig.com.br> To: users@global.libreoffice.org; officesecur...@lists.freedesktop.org Sent: Friday, 6 September 2013, 13:08 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Suggestions: Sorry but the feedback page is not working, I am sending by email Sorry but the feedback page is not working, I am sending by email Via Google Hello, I downloaded the package LibreOffice, because I am currently the a Visual Basic and MsAccess programmer. And I thought a very good tool, however I would like to send some suggestions. The suggestions are: 1 - Password Option to prevent the drawing mode for end users, objects from the database as Forms, Tables, Reports, and Macros 2 - Option to start creating a form that would be a menu option to open other forms, views, tables, queries and reports. 3 - Boot Options to a database, with the ability to more easily hide the toolbars and menus. End users are not familiar with many tools and buttons. And they need ease and simplicity to be able to use a program. 4 - To have to import macros, and ask the password protection code, discourages programmers to distribute databases for end-users and even by the internet. Ideally macros not needed to be imported, and they would only be allocated in a sub-folder of the archive database. If these options could be implemented, surely this would stimulate much MsAccess programmers to migrate to LibreOfficeBase. Thank you. Best Regards Rodrigo Bigo Jr -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
