On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 09:48:32PM +0100, Eike Rathke wrote: >> I believe the same functionality can be achieve via database >> connectivity, by having such external data provider register as a >> database, and use it to act as a data provider for pivot tables. >> So, I don't see a reason why we need to keep this as a separate data >> source category.
> IMHO the advantage of the data provider is that the actual data does not > have to reside in the spreadsheet, allowing for massive amounts of data > records but providing only the information necessary for the pivot > table. This maybe could be accomplished as well using a registered data > source, but currently we have no means to pull the data without actually > storing it in the spreadsheet for further processing. Or isn't that the > case? Naively, I don't immediately see why when using database connectivity, you'd have to store the data in the spreadsheet? -- Lionel _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice