Consider this an [ad] in response to the following and similar requests: > From: Sathish Kumar > But what I want to do is, I want to open a jBASE file > in Microsoft word and that word document will be > present in the local environment and not in jBASE > server. I have to automatically link the document in > the local environment(e.g: desktop) and have to view > the file. > > On Jan 8, Sathish Kumar wrote: > > I want to link microsoft word document to jBASE and > > want to edit a file in the word document. Is that > > possible to do so? If so, can anyone please help me in > > this???
I wrote a file system interface for MV a couple years ago but didn't do anything with it. This allows any Windows application to make use of data in the MV DBMS just like the data is resident in the Windows file system itself. Think of it like a network volume or a Samba Share where the unique details of a remote file system are transparent to local applications. In this case, the remote environment happens to be your jBase or T24 database. So yes, you can read and write your database items just like any Windows file, using Word, Excel, software development tools, or even as files served as static web pages. Another aspect of this is the file system can reference programs as well as raw data. So your accounts\current directory might be mapped to a BASIC program which returns aggregated data which may not correspond directly to files and items (and might even come from sources outside of jBase). Updates to this virtual directory get processed by the program rather than written directly to a file. The net effect here is that any Windows file system can serve as a view to your jBase/T24 environment, which may be hosted on another server and in a completely different OS. Caution: if you write binary items into your database, you will have binary data stored in your database. Alternative: Extensions to all Microsoft Office applications can be written which place a new "File > Open Database Record" option in the menu. This can be used to read data from jBASE (much more easily than the general purpose file system interface). A corresponding "Save to Database" option can be configured to save a Text-Only version of the data (or you can save to a normal Windows file). Conversion of formatted text to plain text has consequences of course, so discussion of details would be required. Unfortunately the above options are not available today, though with sufficient demand the code can be resurrected and made available as new product offerings. No, this will not be made available for free, nor as open source. If nothing else, I hope this serves as confirmation that anything is possible with your MultiValue DBMS platform. Enquiries welcome. Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com Nebula R&D sells mv.NET and other Pick/MultiValue products worldwide, and provides related development services remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com/blog Visit PickWiki.com! Contribute! http://Twitter.com/TonyGravagno
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