Hello, Wasn't sure if I could email screenshots, so here are links to them instead.
The shelf tags: http://i.imgur.com/mynbl.png The order list: http://i.imgur.com/74nJP.png Kindest regards, Derrick On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 11:04 PM, Anthropornis Nordenskjoldi < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a new subscriber, and if this is not the correct place to post my > thoughts, please forgive and redirect me. > > I just completed a LibreOffice survey that was linked to from > omgubuntu.co.uk. The sury vey did not allow me to say as much as I would > have liked due to its format, so I'd like to clarify a point or two. > > When the survey asked if I used Base frequently, I responded that I do not. > However, this worried me that developers may interpret this as a reason to > not devote any work to Base. But the thing is, I don't use Base much because > I don't know yet how to use it the way I wan to use it. For example, I'd > like to stop using Navicat Lite as a GUI front end to a local PostgreSQL > server, and ideally replace it with LibreOffice Base if the latter allows me > basic CRUD features such as drop-down select lists. And I'd prefer to use > something off the shelf like LibreOffice so that I don't have to learn how > to write my own web-based CRUD front-end. > > So I don't wish for developers to misinterpret the results of the rather > simplistic survey, as some situations have additional meaning that cannot be > expressed in such fairly boolean questions. > > Moreover, I went into the survey hoping I would be able to suggest my most > desired feature to have further developed. Since I couldn't do that in the > survey, I hoped I might be able to do it here. And it is on the subject of > mail merges, or more broadly, just merges (I don't actually use this feature > in Microsoft Word for anything mailing related). > > In the past (with OpenOffice), I've done basic web searches to find out how > to replace MS Word (2003 edition) for the mail merges I do, but I've never > come across any straightforward way to do this with LibreOffice. My request > would be for the LibreOffice team to make this as painless as it is in MS > Word 2003, in terms of both the design and implementation of the feature in > the software, as well as providing a canonical and straightforward tutorial > on how to use the improved feature. Ideally the latter would become the > FIRST result in searching on any search engine, and be kept UP TO DATE. > > Let attach two screenshots to show how I use MS Word mail merge. In both > cases the fields are being populated via an ODBC connection to a remote > MySQL database. > > In the first case, Avery labels are populated to become shelf tags in a > retail store. That means one 8x10 sheet of labels is not a full page of the > same label, but each label is different, and if necessary, a second or even > third page of labels is generated until all the rows selected from the > database are rendered into Avery labels. > > In the second case, a weekly order list is generated in what looks like a > datasheet view in MS Access or an Excel tabular format. Again, this spills > over into as many pages as needed, but each row of the merged table is > different. > > None of this is "address book" type fare, or full sheets of the same thing. > It was very easy for me to do in MS Word, but I haven't a clue how to do > these use cases in LibreOffice Writer. It's been easier to keep MS Word > around, so for the time being I've given up. For all I know it is absurdly > easy to do in LibreOffice, but this is not at all discoverable for me, in > either the software UI, or in documentation. > > Kindest regards, > Derrick > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
