On Thursday 24 February 2005 06:42, Iain Roberts wrote:
> 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.
>
> All this ambiguity in OOo means that I'm trying to review your doc.
> without really understanding what it's trying to achieve. If it is
> about using Base, I think it might be clearer if the title was changed.
> If it is about data sources as I understand them, maybe there should
> be more on how to access data sources in Writer and Calc and less on
> forms, queries and reports in Base (though your guide to creating a form
> looks really good - if only the Form wizard was working for me on Linux
> - so should at least find its way into another Base guide, if not this
> one).
>
> If you can let me know which direction you want to go down, I'll edit
> appropriately.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Iain.
Having read this document it seems to me that much of it is duplicating what
will appear in the database guide. Do we want duplicate documentation? Should
this be edited to fit into the first part of the database guide, using the
data model and dictionary stipulated for this guide.
regards
garry
>
> (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!)
