Hi Iain, [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Hi Dan,
I'm reviewing your doc and I've hit a problem with terminology. I just want to make sure I understand what the words mean before I plough on!
The title is Introduction to Data Sources and, to me, that means accessing external sources in OOo (e.g Writer, Calc) for things like Bibliography,mail merge, etc.
At the moment the document seems to be a good introduction to OOo Base, covering creating a database, tables, forms etc.; but doesn't have anything about using those data sources in other components, except that you hit F4 to do it.
The problem for me that OOo itself isn't clear on the terminology, so I don't know how you and I can be. For example, on the first screen of the create database wizard, OOo gives the option of connecting to an external "database" which could be a spreadsheet or text file. Seems to me that "Data Source" would be more consistent there.
ACK! This is my problem too! If you try to translate a content from one language to another (here english-german) you have to analyze every meaning of a word in its context.
In my opinion (and that is the german meaning 'Datenquelle') a datasource is not the same as a database!
It is more than that, it is a source/pool of data, and could come from a flat text (with or without seperator), tables in text or in formats like tables in calc or excel, from a table in a database (!) and so on.
Thats why (in my opinion) a table an its content (!) of a database could be an datasource but not every datasource must be a database!
And thats why I suggest to make a new document
[perhaps titled 'Introducing OOo Base'] with the content of
'Using Datasources' and 'Introduction to Data Sources'. (http://user-faq.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=authors&msgNo=6230)
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Iain.
(Dan : I sent this to you directly and then realised that getting input from the list would be useful, so this is the same mail you got - sorry for any confusion!)
Kind regards -- Marko Moeller Member of de.OpenOffice.org Openoffice.org - ich steck mit drin!
