I'd imagine that Ahuka will get to Base. As a preview, I can assure you that you can attach tables and make forms. It might be a little disorienting to create and maintain forms in Libreoffice at first, though. Base does not have a self-contained facility for editing forms. You do it with Writer.
A few years back, I set up a form to interface with a database of electronics parts. It needed a small amount of code to open a browser window to look up the vendor website based on a URL stored as a Text field in the Parts record. In Access, you can store links as a data type, and just click the link in a table view. Libreoffice doesn't support this, but I had it up and running in a weekend. So the Base series should be interesting and fun. Charles in NJ Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: Mike Ray <[email protected]> Date: 11/28/2014 7:50 PM (GMT-05:00) To: [email protected] Subject: [Hpr] @Ahuka; Libreoffice base? Hello, I wonder if Kevin is intending to cover Libreoffice base in any shows. I was an MS Access programmer in a former life, pre 2k and I'm curious to know whether Libreoffice Base can be made to do similar stuff. In particular it would be great if Base could: 1) Include 'attached' tables in the same way as Access allowed (still does?) ODBC tables. 2) Can create stand-alone applications that can be deployed to the WAN. 3) Can create complex forms which fit the usual CRUD (create/review/update/delete) functions in any DB application, including good old one-to-many forms etc. I used to create client-server apps in Access which were deployed to regional offices across the UK. Mike -- Michael A. Ray Analyst/Programmer Witley, Surrey, South-east UK "Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla" (It's a long way by the rules, but short and efficient with examples) Interested in accessibility on the Raspberry Pi? Visit: http://www.raspberryvi.org/ From where you can join our mailing list for visually-impaired Pi hackers _______________________________________________ Hpr mailing list [email protected] http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org
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