On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 12:30 +0000, Mark Stanton wrote: > Hi Drew, > > > You can connect to an Access Database as a data source, but you are not > > able to make much if any use of major parts of the data (beyond the > > tables) held in the MS Access file. > > Could you explain please (I don't know Access very well at all)?
Well, if you don't use MS Access then what do you care, but alright. > > > > Some of the things that the manual should point out, IMO, queries will > > be viewed in Base as either tables or views - this means that users are > > often befuddled as to why some Access table will not take updates - > > Is this an Access specific issue? Yes > > > > Queries in MS Access support features for which there are NO equivalents > > in Base, without resorting to scripting. > > Like what? And is this an Access specific thing? The ability of a query to reference a form control, for one. > > > Forms in MS Access support features for which there are NO equivalents > > in Base, and you likely would need C++ code to duplicate those, forget > > the scripting. There are types of controls that have no equivalent - for instance (hmm what does Access call it..) a scrollable area that contains repeating groups of controls. > > The same can be said for reports. How parameters are passed to reports is not easily duplicated. > > I can imagine this is the case, but could you say what features these are? > > > > MS Access supports the ability to connect to multiple data sources, > > another 'feature' for which there is NO equivalent in Base or > > LibreOffice for that matter. > > Or in several dbms engines either. Sure and so what, the question isn't about other dbms' //drew -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@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/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
