[libreoffice-users] Re: Headless mode examples for socket and pipe methods.
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Headless mode examples for socket and pipe methods.
Looks, like you want me to read the code which I was trying to very much avoid. It is still not clear from the soffice --help or from the various posts that I have combed so far if it is or is not possible to specify a connection string to a headless listening soffice server. I mean, does one have to write a client program (or use a client such as jodconverter) just to be able to specify a connection string to connect to headless soffice server? I would greatly, /greatly/ appreciate if someone would be kind enough to tell me just this much with an example. This solution introduces a Java dependency (which I would like to avoid as much as possible unless there is really no other alternative). The DocumentConverter.py flavor that comes with jodconverter is taking so many seconds that I'm doubting if its really using the listening soffice server or spawning a new one. Again, to verify this I'd have to do more testing and look into the source code. So, please, asking one last time for a simple and direct answer if you can. A pipe example would also be appreciated. In summary, I'd like to know 1) how to use just soffice (i.e., without any other external software like jodconverter, unoconv, etc) to efficiently convert a large number of ms office files to plain text. 2) I'd like to use the headless soffice so that it's not restarted for every input file type, and 3) I'd also like to know how to use both socket and the pipe method. I wish the soffice --help option came with a simple 1 line examples of each. :-( But if not, then at least on this forum I can get my answers instead of reading the source code of these various tools. On 02/29/2012 02:02 PM, Andreas Säger wrote: http://code.google.com/p/jodconverter/ -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: increase testing to improve quality
On 29/02/2012, NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net wrote: There is a web page which describes manual testing: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Testing/Manual_Tests. Clearly, there are insufficient testers... Clearly: quote IMPORTANT: Obsoleted by Litmus Litmus is a useful tool for organizing manual tests. Please, help us to migrate all these test cases there and remove them from this wiki page. /quote So why even point 'users' to that page? The initial purpose is to promote the existence of QA testing, both in terms of the history (the wiki) and the future (litmus). Cool. Have you *actually* installed 3.5.1rc1 (as noted in the litmus test)? Description: Test run for *3.5.1 RC* regression testing. Please use *3.5.1 RC* build to test the cases in this run. No, there are no new features of personal interest. If you did (and you'd need to find it someplace other than: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/ and (currently) only on http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ you'd find that the install (at least on a debian linux system) smokes your existing 3.5.0 install (remember 3.5.0 is the released version). I don't fully understand, but perhaps this is a serious bug? So, while I (we?) appreciate your efforts to get users on this user list as pre-release testers, I'd be overly cautious about asking users on this list to perform litmus tests... At least not without explaining in *detail* what is required, and how to avoid existing LO standard installations being blown away by a pre-release version. That is valid and is of such high importance to be published on the 'qa' web page! IMO it's probably better for 'users' on this list to wait to test/participate when http://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/ actually shows a pre-release version. *And* testers understand the implications of testing. This will avoid the LO blew up my thesis and wiped out all of my exisiting templates/files/settings. (Note: I'm not making light of those that do report such, but instead trying to avoid such reports here in the first place as they are *serious* issues can happen if you don't understand what you are doing when you test.) True, but surely users are sufficiently intelligent to understand not to use alpha, beta, pre-release, release candidate, etc. on computers containing important information such as a thesis??? Any competent tester should have a separate machine. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Tell me it's not true
Le 29/02/12 07:43, Andreas Säger a écrit : Hi all, Base is best when you ignore most of its tools and helpers relying entirely on your own skills and on the capabilities of the underlying database driver. I wish it were otherwise, but sadly, well said. Alex -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreO-Base report layout problem
Le 29/02/12 00:25, Pertti Rönnberg a écrit : Hi Pertti, My intention is to have the report's name and the column headings page number on the first page (= sections 'Report Header' 'Page Header' visible) and only column headings page number(s) on the next pages (= section 'Page Header' visible) I seem to recall reading somewhere, possibly in a bug report, or on another mailing list (German ??) that this doesn't yet work as intended...something about not being able to switch header/footer page styles. Sorry, I can't be any more precise than that. Alex -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Tell me it's not true
On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 12:26 +0100, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 29/02/12 07:43, Andreas Säger a écrit : Hi all, Base is best when you ignore most of its tools and helpers relying entirely on your own skills and on the capabilities of the underlying database driver. I wish it were otherwise, but sadly, well said. *laughing*...I'll be damned, I was tempted to say exactly that, pulled it back at that last second - but yes that is about it. Honestly - I stopped advising anyone to use Base for anything quite a while back. //drew Alex -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Tell me it's not true
On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 12:45 +0100, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 29/02/12 12:40, drew jensen a écrit : *laughing*...I'll be damned, I was tempted to say exactly that, pulled it back at that last second - but yes that is about it. Honestly - I stopped advising anyone to use Base for anything quite a while back. :-) Oh put our jaw back you know it's true... -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Tell me it's not true
Create a brand new database (relational, embedded HSQLDB). Drag the table icons from your dBase connection into the new database. Doing this now. It lets me select all tables, but when I drag then it only brings over one :-( And HSQL seems to require index names to be unique at the database level not the table level, is that right? Mark Stanton One small step for mankind... -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Tell me it's not true
perhaps able to include some aspects of the spreadsheet paradigm to data manipulation. That's an interesting thought. What sorts of aspects do you have in mind? Mark Stanton -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Tell me it's not true
On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 13:36 +, e-letter wrote: On 29/02/2012, Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de wrote: Almost nothing has changed since then, except for fixing things that should have been working right from the start 9 years ago. The Base developers wasted too much time with useless wizards covering no more than 30% of the program's capabilities and with a self contained database document that is a caricature of a database (unsafe, unsecure, low featured and slow). Base is best when you ignore most of its tools and helpers relying entirely on your own skills and on the capabilities of the underlying database driver. Interesting; suggests that base exists just to answer the question by m$ fans: where is the equivalent to acce$$? well, think what you want...though I will say this - one of the root causes of Base's woes can be tied IMO to the first sentence in the original design specification, to paraphrase from it ...because users are too stupid to.. Starting from the premise that users are stupid it is not surprising that Base ended up the way it did. xoxo, //drew -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.5 Templates
Hi :) It might be worth renaming your User Profile https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile It would be great to save a copy somewhere safe and far away from where LO will look for it, perhaps in your My Documents folder. Hopefully the 3.4 will start up just fine after that but you will need to copy-back the templates and maybe a few other things from your old UserProfile to the new one that automatically gets generated. If that hasn't worked try fully uninstalling LibreOffice again, reboot (especially if using Windows) and then re-install the 3.4.5. Again you will need to copy the templates and stuff back from the copy you made into the new one that got generated in the previous paragraph. Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 29/2/12, Keith Bates ke...@new-life.org.au wrote: From: Keith Bates ke...@new-life.org.au Subject: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.5 Templates To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Wednesday, 29 February, 2012, 1:09 I made a big mistake this morning. I upgraded to 3.5- I'm using Ubuntu 11.10. Installed from the libreoffice ppa I discovered early that it won't print multiple copies. I tried to revert to 3.4 by removing 3.4 and re-installing. It wouldn't start up. Now I find that I can't use templates. There is not even a templates folder in the organize templates module. The templates exist but just can't be used. If I try to use a template I get an error message templates already exists. If I try to open them as documents and save them as templates I get another similar error about them already existing- no option to overwrite. Has anyone come across any of this insanity? -- God bless you Keith Bates Narrabri NSW Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Parameterised query
B*m! :-( Fixed it. Wrong SQL mode selected, it seems. Sorry. Mark Stanton One small step for mankind... -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Tell me it's not true
Yes - It's one at a time. Hmm, a shame but plausible. And HSQL seems to require index names to be unique at the database level not the table level, is that right? Yes. Isn't that a little... Non-standard? Mark Stanton One small step for mankind... -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Tell me it's not true
On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 15:12 +, Mark Stanton wrote: Yes - It's one at a time. Hmm, a shame but plausible. And HSQL seems to require index names to be unique at the database level not the table level, is that right? Yes. Isn't that a little... Non-standard? Not really...Also, normally one would allow the tool to generate unique index names - for example creating a FK relation will automatically create required indexes, adding a PK to a table also. And sorry if this is off track - but I just want to be sure that you are referring to index names and not column names used for FK relationships. Column names, even used in a FK are table specific not database (or schema) specific. So I can have Table1 (t1PK, data1, data2) Table2 (t2PK, data1, data2, t1PK) Table2.t1PK will be indexed for a FK back to table1, the index created will have unique name, but you need not create it, the create FK statement will do so for you. //drew Mark Stanton One small step for mankind... -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Parameterised query
On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 15:06 +, Mark Stanton wrote: Hi, Taking advice here and the French FAQ on the Wiki (now translated :-) ), I see how to use parameters in a query. I have a query in my database that's linked to a MySQL database and it just complains The data content could not be loaded. No value specified for parameter 1 with the query SELECT Several fields FROMa table JOINfive other tables WHERE issues.Issue = ?Isssue_Num AND sent.sent = 1 AND textvalues.Field = 'CBOSUBTYPE' ORDER BYFirstName, Surname I have tried the :Parameter form, which doesn't work either. It works perfectly well if I give a value instead of ?Issue_Num. hmm, well one problem is that the correct syntax is :Issue_Num NOT ?Issue_Num Make that change and you should be good to go. //drew Any suggestions why this doesn't work? This is LO 3.4.5, whose Base component is presumably almost exactly the same as 3.5. Mark Stanton One small step for mankind... -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Tell me it's not true
Am 29.02.2012 16:06, Mark Stanton wrote: perhaps able to include some aspects of the spreadsheet paradigm to data manipulation. That's an interesting thought. What sorts of aspects do you have in mind? Mark Stanton A database component without databases would be as interesting as a spreadsheet without references. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Parameterised query
On 29/02/2012 16:06, Mark Stanton wrote: Hi, Taking advice here and the French FAQ on the Wiki (now translated :-) ), I see how to use parameters in a query. I have a query in my database that's linked to a MySQL database and it just complains The data content could not be loaded. No value specified for parameter 1 with the query SELECTSeveral fields FROMa table JOINfive other tables WHERE issues.Issue = ?Isssue_Num AND sent.sent = 1 AND textvalues.Field = 'CBOSUBTYPE' ORDER BYFirstName, Surname I have tried the :Parameter form, which doesn't work either. It works perfectly well if I give a value instead of ?Issue_Num. Any suggestions why this doesn't work? a typo in ?Isssue_Num (3s) ? greetz Fernand This is LO 3.4.5, whose Base component is presumably almost exactly the same as 3.5. Mark Stanton One small step for mankind... -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Specialized dictionary
On 02/28/2012 12:38 PM, Libre User wrote: I have a project to make display labels for a mineral museum. Does anyone know of a source for a specialized dictionary of mineral and chemical names that can be used with LO? Jerry Minerals? Well, maybe in the larger ones, but English Chemistry - try this one. http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.4-installs/add-on-dictionaries-large-list/Chemistry_Dictionary__technical_chemistry_words--ChemDictOOo2011-01-07.oxt -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] How to use GTK open dialog box in LibreOffice
On 29/02/2012 at 08:33, Arnaud Champollion arnaud.champoll...@laposte.net wrote: If you would like to force GTK everytime, try adding: export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome into your ~/.bashrc Doesn't work, even after restarting the session. or ~/.profile Doesn't work either. You are using Debian, right? Which version (you can check in file /etc/debian_version)? How did you install MATE? It hasn't made it into official Debian repository yet. Do you know what login manager you are using? Could you post it's name? If you don't know, can you post output of command: dpkg -l on the web somewhere? http://pastebin.com/ or similar page sounds good. It may be few thousand lines long. You can use command: dpkg -l installed-list.txt to write it into installed-list.txt file in your working directory. Output of: echo $SHELL in command line/terminal may be useful, too. Answering these questions may help me narrowing down the problem and come up with some solutions for you. As for Warning that you are getting: gnome-keyring is GNOME app to securely store passwords in a session (i.e. between logging in and logging out). I *think* that you can ignore that -- it's not that LO will ask you for password anyway (unless you are writing/reading password-protected documents, but I am pretty sure that LO does not need gnome-keyring for that). -- Best regards Mirosław Zalewski -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Tell me it's not true
On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 10:01 -0500, drew jensen wrote: On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 13:36 +, e-letter wrote: On 29/02/2012, Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de wrote: Almost nothing has changed since then, except for fixing things that should have been working right from the start 9 years ago. The Base developers wasted too much time with useless wizards covering no more than 30% of the program's capabilities and with a self contained database document that is a caricature of a database (unsafe, unsecure, low featured and slow). Base is best when you ignore most of its tools and helpers relying entirely on your own skills and on the capabilities of the underlying database driver. Interesting; suggests that base exists just to answer the question by m$ fans: where is the equivalent to acce$$? well, think what you want...though I will say this - one of the root causes of Base's woes can be tied IMO to the first sentence in the original design specification, to paraphrase from it ...because users are too stupid to.. Starting from the premise that users are stupid it is not surprising that Base ended up the way it did. xoxo, //drew This thread for the most part is exactly what should not be part of this mailing list. The attitudes are horrible with very little said in a positive way. Yes, why have Base? Why have a Base Guide? The person who wrote a suggested outline for the Base Guide is among this group. With this attitude, how could the outline be what it should be? Does it suffer the same attitude problem? Besides, what purpose would it serve given the comments about Base? What would most people who are new to Base think after reading the negative comments about Base? Statements about how hard it is to learn (comparing learning at least some of it to the difficulty of learning a new language). No one seems to be able to give references that would help. (No one has so far.) Recently there was a long thread that began with a problem with a large spreadsheet. One of the early comments was that the data should have been in a database. Now, it appears that that comment should have been: you should be using a database but don't use Base. Strange very little help was give as to how Calc could be used. So, it sounds like to me that the advice seems to be: limit your use of Calc and DON'T USE Base. OK, I have had my say. I will likely delete any replies that come from this thread because I have seen people justify their actions in the past threads. This is suppose to be a list to help others, and their comments are not likely to do that. Besides, any replies to me need to consist of references for getting the most from Base. Other than help in learning more about how to use it, I don't need. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Parameterised query
Hi :) It is great to see the Base section of the Faq getting worked on first. Base needs a lot of love from a lot of people. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq#Base Good work Markers :) Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 29/2/12, Mark Stanton m...@vowleyfarm.co.uk wrote: From: Mark Stanton m...@vowleyfarm.co.uk Subject: [libreoffice-users] Parameterised query To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Wednesday, 29 February, 2012, 15:06 Hi, Taking advice here and the French FAQ on the Wiki (now translated :-) ), I see how to use parameters in a query. I have a query in my database that's linked to a MySQL database and it just complains The data content could not be loaded. No value specified for parameter 1 with the query SELECT Several fields FROM a table JOIN five other tables WHERE issues.Issue = ?Isssue_Num AND sent.sent = 1 AND textvalues.Field = 'CBOSUBTYPE' ORDER BY FirstName, Surname I have tried the :Parameter form, which doesn't work either. It works perfectly well if I give a value instead of ?Issue_Num. Any suggestions why this doesn't work? This is LO 3.4.5, whose Base component is presumably almost exactly the same as 3.5. Mark Stanton One small step for mankind... -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Tell me it's not true
Am 29.02.2012 18:15, Dan Lewis wrote: This thread for the most part is exactly what should not be part of this mailing list. @Mark Stanton, Would you please visit us at http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/index.php next time? What would most people who are new to Base think after reading the negative comments about Base? Statements about how hard it is to learn (comparing learning at least some of it to the difficulty of learning a new language). No one seems to be able to give references that would help. (No one has so far.) You should read what people think after trying to work with Base in a user interface that suggests something very similar to MS Access. Everybody working through the ungrateful topics of Base support has to put things straight regarding what Base is and what it's not. Drew Jensen is the single person who deserves all merits that some people (including me) found their way to do very productive things with this office suite's database connectivity. Actually it is easy enough to access arbitrary table data beyond file format issues in order to make them appear in our office documents (once you got used to the fact that in most cases a database document may not contain any database). Slightly advanced users can prepare data sources and queries that are easy to use by the less capable users. Your letter template may use some Name-Address-ZIP-City query from a MySQL server and then you advise the end user to use another Name-Address-ZIP-City query from a plain text file you created this morning. The end user does not notice any difference between MySQL server and plain text when he reconnects his letter to another data source item. Building a simple database application with data flowing from the office suite back to some connected database takes a conception of the database you are going to write to. This expert knowledge is beyond the scope of most users and it has nothing to do with ODF documents. It takes extremely complex tools to assist laymen in this effort. Even the expensive database suites can not do that much when you are not aware of some theoretical concepts. First you have a relational database ready to use, then building some ODF input forms to edit the relational data is no black art. The minimum tools are availlable in Writer, Calc, Draw, Impress. They are very simple and simple is not the same as easy. The design process involves user-ability rather than usability. The resulting forms, reports and mail merge templates work very well for my users and me. My users refers to a group of rather computer illiterate professionals who need to write lots of info snippets into protocols, memos, inventories and serial letters collecting some 100 records per day in a small business network of 6 personal computers. If LibreOffice would drop 90% of Base, keeping the mere connectivity, the primitive query parser and ODF forms, we could still work with it in the same way as we do today. All the convenient but misleading rubbish built around the core functionality is obsolete. Base should start again where OOo 2.0 left the well thought concept of OOo 1.x. Wrapping portable databases in extensions rather than documents would solve all the data loss problems of the embedded database. Reduce to the max! -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Headless mode examples for socket and pipe methods.
Le 29/02/2012 07:42, Harry Simons a écrit : Hi Harry, You might find some hints here : http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/starting-stopping-and-connecting-openoffice-python http://codesnippets.services.openoffice.org/Office/Office.ConnectToListeningOpenOfficeVariant2_BSF4Rexx_.snip http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/26555/Batch-Converting-and-Merging-Multiple-Documents-to http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=64007 http://technology.amis.nl/2006/06/getting-started-with-the-openofficeorg-api-part-i-connecting-to-openofficeorg/ http://www.openoffice.org/udk/python/python-bridge.html http://www.openoffice.org/udk/python/python-bridge.html#binding Alex -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] How to use GTK open dialog box in LibreOffice
Le 29/02/2012 17:29, Mirosław Zalewski a écrit : You are using Debian, right? Which version Wheezy How did you install MATE? It hasn't made it into official Debian repository yet. with the following repository : deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/debian/ wheezy main Do you know what login manager you are using? Lightdm (from the Debian main repository, installed with apt-get) I had gdm, but after having a problem with gdm background (disappeared) I switched to Lightdm. I can try with gdm if that can help. -- Arnaud Champollion -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.5 Templates
On 01/03/12 02:05, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) It might be worth renaming your User Profile https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile It would be great to save a copy somewhere safe and far away from where LO will look for it, perhaps in your My Documents folder. Hopefully the 3.4 will start up just fine after that but you will need to copy-back the templates and maybe a few other things from your old UserProfile to the new one that automatically gets generated. If that hasn't worked try fully uninstalling LibreOffice again, reboot (especially if using Windows) and then re-install the 3.4.5. Again you will need to copy the templates and stuff back from the copy you made into the new one that got generated in the previous paragraph. Regards from Tom :) Hi Tom, I managed to get 3.4.4 working after several attempts at re-installing. I don't know what the problem was with 3.5. I guess I'll just have to wait for a later version. Keith --- On Wed, 29/2/12, Keith Bateske...@new-life.org.au wrote: From: Keith Bateske...@new-life.org.au Subject: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.5 Templates To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Wednesday, 29 February, 2012, 1:09 I made a big mistake this morning. I upgraded to 3.5- I'm using Ubuntu 11.10. Installed from the libreoffice ppa I discovered early that it won't print multiple copies. I tried to revert to 3.4 by removing 3.4 and re-installing. It wouldn't start up. Now I find that I can't use templates. There is not even a templates folder in the organize templates module. The templates exist but just can't be used. If I try to use a template I get an error message templates already exists. If I try to open them as documents and save them as templates I get another similar error about them already existing- no option to overwrite. Has anyone come across any of this insanity? -- God bless you Keith Bates Narrabri NSW Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- God bless you Keith Bates Narrabri NSW Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Tell me it's not true
Hi Drew, Not really...Also, normally one would allow the tool to generate unique index names - for example creating a FK relation will automatically create required indexes, adding a PK to a table also. I'm a little surprised. Although I've got over twenty years of database development experience, it is largely in FoxPro (a dBase improvement), although with a little of a few others. I've not seen, and certainly wouldn't want, an insistence on automatically named indices. And sorry if this is off track - but I just want to be sure that you are referring to index names and not column names Yes, I'm definitely talking about index names. I took up Andreas' idea of importing my dbase-type files into an HSQL LO database. It didn't realise the tables already had primary key fields. I usually call these iId (as integer ID fields), and so want an index (called iId) on each table. I can't do that in HSQL. I know there's an idea that index names should include table names, which would completely eradicate the issue, it's just that I don't agree :-) It's a (perhaps) interesting discussion point rather than a problem though. Thanks for the info Mark Stanton One small step for mankind... -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Tell me it's not true
@Mark Stanton, Would you please visit us at http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/index.php next time? Coo, look at that! A busy Base forum. I really much prefer stuff that arrives in my mailbox, but yes, I will visit there. Thanks (again) Andreas. Mark Stanton One small step for mankind... -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Parameterised query
Hi Fernand, ?Isssue_Num (3s) ? greetz Fernand Thanks, but nope. The name Issue_Num, just identifies a parameter, it doesn't have to match the name of any field. The problem was the wrong SQL mode. Mark Stanton One small step for mankind... -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Tell me it's not true
A database component without databases would be as interesting as a spreadsheet without references. That's true, but e-letter was talking about adding spreadsheet-type facilities, not taking away database-type ones. In view of the previous thread, and general experience, suggesting that spreadsheet users sometimes want to make the jump to databases but find it difficult, I'm interested in thoughts about facilities that would help bridge that gap. Particularly as I'm starting to do some Base development... Cheers Mark Stanton One small step for mankind... -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[Solved] Re: [libreoffice-users] Parameterised query
Hi :) Congrats on fixing the problem :) Nicely done :) Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 29/2/12, Mark Stanton m...@vowleyfarm.co.uk wrote: From: Mark Stanton m...@vowleyfarm.co.uk Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Parameterised query To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Wednesday, 29 February, 2012, 22:13 Hi Fernand, ?Isssue_Num (3s) ? greetz Fernand Thanks, but nope. The name Issue_Num, just identifies a parameter, it doesn't have to match the name of any field. The problem was the wrong SQL mode. Mark Stanton One small step for mankind... -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libreoffice 3.5
On 28/02/2012 19:45, Tom wrote: Hi :) I think it might just be that you have to reboot your machine after an install. Also after an uninstall. Remember this from the early days of Xp? http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3785115/mouse-reboot.jpg mouse-reboot.jpg Not a genuine message of course but it felt about right at the time. Instead of uninstalling perhaps try just renaming your User Profile as that does what most people expect an uninstallreinstall to do http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile Also with Vista it has some strange permissions thing that tries to block unwanted events from happening so perhaps it's the UAE or something blocking the install? Perhaps try downloading LIbreOffice 3.4.5 from the official web-site http://www.libreoffice.org/download/?type=win-x86lang=en-US I got there by choosing the option Change system, version or language - and then choose US as the language. Good luck and regards from Tom :) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Libreoffice-3-5-tp3781541p3785115.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Tom, Thanks for your advice. I've tried various combinations of uninstall, reboot and reinstall to no avail. I can't even retreat to a previous viable version of L.O. I've removed L.O. from my Windows laptop and re-installed MSoffice. I'm still happily running L.O. on my Ubuntu laptop. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Tell me it's not true
Hi :) Yes, if you want to get involved with Base then OpenOffice has far better routes for getting in contact with people. TDF see Base as very very low priority so it refuses to give it even 1 mailing list let alone a whole forum. Still, it seems that here is the better place to actually get on with any work, such as documentation, faqs, coding or whatever area interests a person. Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 29/2/12, Mark Stanton m...@vowleyfarm.co.uk wrote: From: Mark Stanton m...@vowleyfarm.co.uk Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Tell me it's not true To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Wednesday, 29 February, 2012, 22:13 @Mark Stanton, Would you please visit us at http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/index.php next time? Coo, look at that! A busy Base forum. I really much prefer stuff that arrives in my mailbox, but yes, I will visit there. Thanks (again) Andreas. Mark Stanton One small step for mankind... -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libreoffice 3.5
Hi :) Ages ago Earl Melton made this post No, no. It's an excellent free replacement and far superior to MS' Add/Remove, IMO. You can download it at the link below and install just like any other app. After clicking the link, be careful to not choose the 30-day free trial of the Pro version -- you don't really need it..well, unless you're needing to put your wallet on a diet. :-) Instead, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the FREE download button. Works great on Win-XP and Vista. If your OS is otherwise, check requirements at the link before downloading. HTH! http://www.revouninstaller.com/revo_uninstaller_free_download.html -- I'm so busy, I don't know whether I found a rope or lost my horse! Earl -- (21st June 2011) A few other people on the lists at the time also said it was pretty awesome but i'm not sure if they had tried it on Vista. They probably had as that seems to be the trickiest version of Windows at the moment. Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 29/2/12, MoolsM mools.marin...@gmail.com wrote: From: MoolsM mools.marin...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libreoffice 3.5 To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Wednesday, 29 February, 2012, 22:27 On 28/02/2012 19:45, Tom wrote: Hi :) I think it might just be that you have to reboot your machine after an install. Also after an uninstall. Remember this from the early days of Xp? http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3785115/mouse-reboot.jpg mouse-reboot.jpg Not a genuine message of course but it felt about right at the time. Instead of uninstalling perhaps try just renaming your User Profile as that does what most people expect an uninstallreinstall to do http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile Also with Vista it has some strange permissions thing that tries to block unwanted events from happening so perhaps it's the UAE or something blocking the install? Perhaps try downloading LIbreOffice 3.4.5 from the official web-site http://www.libreoffice.org/download/?type=win-x86〈=en-US I got there by choosing the option Change system, version or language - and then choose US as the language. Good luck and regards from Tom :) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Libreoffice-3-5-tp3781541p3785115.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Tom, Thanks for your advice. I've tried various combinations of uninstall, reboot and reinstall to no avail. I can't even retreat to a previous viable version of L.O. I've removed L.O. from my Windows laptop and re-installed MSoffice. I'm still happily running L.O. on my Ubuntu laptop. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice 3.5
On 28/02/2012 16:44, e-letter wrote:On 27/02/2012, MoolsMmools.marinair@gmail.comwrote:I'm currently running Windows Vista.A mistake...When I click on the icon I get some startup details and then a windows message saying L.O has stopped working. Tried a few cycles of un-install and reinstall but keep getting the same problem. Any thoughts?Please contact m$ and tell us your experience.A mistake...I've run Vista for nearly three years without any major problems apart from this. However in 2012, who gives a sh!t about the OS. I didn't post this problem because I expected a simple resolution, although that would have been nice. My intention was to warn others who might have been seduced by the happy combination of Vista and previous versions of L.O., as indeed I was. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.5 Templates
Hi :) Congrats :) Nicely done :) The 3.5.0 is the first in that branch and we didn't actively ask people to get involved with beta-testing it early enough. I was one of those guilty of telling people to stay away from it until the 3.5.1 so i'm feeling like i kicked myself in the leg and also am feeling quite guilty. However the devs are stars so i'm sure the 3.5.1 will clear up a lot of the problems. If you would like to get a sneak preview of the 3.5.1 then when the beta-testing releases are made try installing it alongside the LO you already have http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel or better still test on an older machine or in a virtual machine. This allows you to switch back to the one you know works if you run into a problem and have a de4ad-line to keep. Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 29/2/12, Keith Bates ke...@new-life.org.au wrote: From: Keith Bates ke...@new-life.org.au Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.5 Templates To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Wednesday, 29 February, 2012, 22:03 On 01/03/12 02:05, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) It might be worth renaming your User Profile https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile It would be great to save a copy somewhere safe and far away from where LO will look for it, perhaps in your My Documents folder. Hopefully the 3.4 will start up just fine after that but you will need to copy-back the templates and maybe a few other things from your old UserProfile to the new one that automatically gets generated. If that hasn't worked try fully uninstalling LibreOffice again, reboot (especially if using Windows) and then re-install the 3.4.5. Again you will need to copy the templates and stuff back from the copy you made into the new one that got generated in the previous paragraph. Regards from Tom :) Hi Tom, I managed to get 3.4.4 working after several attempts at re-installing. I don't know what the problem was with 3.5. I guess I'll just have to wait for a later version. Keith --- On Wed, 29/2/12, Keith Bateske...@new-life.org.au wrote: From: Keith Bateske...@new-life.org.au Subject: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.5 Templates To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Wednesday, 29 February, 2012, 1:09 I made a big mistake this morning. I upgraded to 3.5- I'm using Ubuntu 11.10. Installed from the libreoffice ppa I discovered early that it won't print multiple copies. I tried to revert to 3.4 by removing 3.4 and re-installing. It wouldn't start up. Now I find that I can't use templates. There is not even a templates folder in the organize templates module. The templates exist but just can't be used. If I try to use a template I get an error message templates already exists. If I try to open them as documents and save them as templates I get another similar error about them already existing- no option to overwrite. Has anyone come across any of this insanity? -- God bless you Keith Bates Narrabri NSW Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- God bless you Keith Bates Narrabri NSW Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Fw: [MariaDB Announce] MariaDB 5.3.5 now available!
--- On Wed, 29/2/12, MariaDB Announce List annou...@mariadb.org wrote: From: MariaDB Announce List annou...@mariadb.org Subject: [MariaDB Announce] MariaDB 5.3.5 now available! To: annou...@mariadb.org Date: Wednesday, 29 February, 2012, 20:24 The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.3.5! MariaDB 5.3.5 is the first stable (GA) release in the 5.3 series. --- MariaDB 5.3.5 Release Notes, Changelog, Downloads - The release notes are available at: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-535-release-notes A changelog is available at: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-535-changelog Sources, binaries and packages can be downloaded from: http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/5.3.5/ Debian and Ubuntu packages are available from our mirrored apt repositories. A sources.list generator can be found at: http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/repositories/ --- About MariaDB 5.3 - The MariaDB 5.3 series introduces many new features, includes MariaDB 5.2, and is based on MariaDB 5.1 MySQL 5.1. Some highlights of new features in MariaDB 5.3 include: - subquery optimizations that finally make subqueries usable - many optimizer changes, including Classic Hash Join, Batched Key Access, a new implementation of Multi-Range-Read optimizations as well as Index Condition Pushdown - NoSQL-style interfaces via the HandlerSocket plugin as well as dynamic columns - group commit in XtraDB when the binary log is enabled - Microsoft Windows performance improvements These are just some of the highlights, and for a more complete list of changes, please read the What is MariaDB 5.3 page: http://kb.askmonty.org/en/what-is-mariadb-53 --- SkySQL and MariaDB: Solutions Day - We'll be co-hosting the the SkySQL MariaDB: Solutions Day for the MySQL® Database one day event on 13 April, 2012, at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara. During this event, attendees will receive free, hands-on training and consulting on MariaDB and MySQL® database solutions from the experts at SkySQL, MariaDB, Continuent, ScaleDB, Severalnines, Sphinx, and Webyog, among others. SkySQL and MariaDB will bring together industry visionaries, including Michael (Monty) Widenius and David Axmark, the original authors of the MySQL database, to share their insights on current and future trends pertaining to the world's most popular open source database. To learn more about this free event, visit http://www.skysql.com/events/mysql-solutions-day The schedule for the event is here: http://www.skysql.com/events/mysql-solutions-day/schedule Attendees are also invited to participate in Drizzle Day– a parallel event co-hosted by SkySQL, Percona, and the Drizzle Development Team, featuring tutorials on the Drizzle database. --- User Feedback plugin -- MariaDB includes a User Feedback plugin. This plugin is disabled by default. If enabled, it submits basic, completely anonymous MariaDB usage information. This information is used by the developers to track trends in MariaDB usage to better guide development efforts. If you would like to help make MariaDB better, please add --plugin-load=feedback.so to your my.cnf file! On Windows, add feedback=ON to your my.ini file, or click the checkbox during the installation of the MSI package. See http://kb.askmonty.org/en/user-feedback-plugin for more information. --- MariaDB Crash Course book - We would also like to mention the book MariaDB Crash Course, by Ben Forta. This book - for beginner to intermediate level users - will get you up and running with MariaDB, even if you've never used a database before. More information is available at: http://forta.com/books/0321799941/ --- Quality --- The project always strives for quality, but in reality, nothing is perfect. Please take time to report any issues you encounter at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/maria We hope you enjoy MariaDB! -- Daniel Bartholomew MariaDB - http://mariadb.org Monty Program - http://montyprogram.com AskMonty Knowledgebase - http://kb.askmonty.org ___ announce mailing list annou...@mariadb.org http://lists.askmonty.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/announce To unsubscribe, send an email with unsubscribe as the Subject: to announce-requ...@mariadb.org -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Tell me it's not true
Hi :) The documentation appearing at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#LibreOffice_Base_Guide The Faq at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq#Base (and the forum at OpenOffice, grrr) are having a major effect on Base. It used to be almost impossible to get any answer at all about Base on this list. Now lots of people are giving opinions and sometimes even helpful advice. People don't come to this list to ask questions when everything runs smoothly! Keep up the good work! Documentation is leading the way! Thanks and regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 29/2/12, Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com wrote: This thread for the most part is exactly what should not be part of this mailing list. The attitudes are horrible with very little said in a positive way. Yes, why have Base? Why have a Base Guide? The person who wrote a suggested outline for the Base Guide is among this group. With this attitude, how could the outline be what it should be? Does it suffer the same attitude problem? Besides, what purpose would it serve given the comments about Base? What would most people who are new to Base think after reading the negative comments about Base? Statements about how hard it is to learn (comparing learning at least some of it to the difficulty of learning a new language). No one seems to be able to give references that would help. (No one has so far.) Recently there was a long thread that began with a problem with a large spreadsheet. One of the early comments was that the data should have been in a database. Now, it appears that that comment should have been: you should be using a database but don't use Base. Strange very little help was give as to how Calc could be used. So, it sounds like to me that the advice seems to be: limit your use of Calc and DON'T USE Base. OK, I have had my say. I will likely delete any replies that come from this thread because I have seen people justify their actions in the past threads. This is suppose to be a list to help others, and their comments are not likely to do that. Besides, any replies to me need to consist of references for getting the most from Base. Other than help in learning more about how to use it, I don't need. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Closing Calc Documents
Hi :) I thought closing with the little white-on-red X at the top right of a window was fine but people have sometimes tried to tell me that i 'should' use File - Close because it's better apparently. I really don't think it makes a difference but i was hoping other people would know more about it and give a better answer to this thread. Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 29/2/12, alnuwer alnu...@cox.net wrote: From: alnuwer alnu...@cox.net Subject: [libreoffice-users] Closing Calc Documents To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Wednesday, 29 February, 2012, 4:03 On SOME occasions (not all), after I close a calc doc, my Windows Explorer still shows it as open. To remove the lock-file name entry in Explorer, I must reopen the doc and close it again. This usually gets the job done. Is this a bug, or am I not closing the doc properly? I usually hit the big red X to close (but sometimes the little black X to just close the doc and not calc. LibreOffice 3.3 Windoes XL Pro Thanks for your help! Al -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Closing-Calc-Documents-tp3786180p3786180.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: increase testing to improve quality
On 02/29/2012 03:14 AM, e-letter wrote: On 29/02/2012, NoOp sniprudeemailquotefrome-letter-fixyourclient wrote: There is a web page which describes manual testing: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Testing/Manual_Tests. Clearly, there are insufficient testers... Clearly: quote IMPORTANT: Obsoleted by Litmus Litmus is a useful tool for organizing manual tests. Please, help us to migrate all these test cases there and remove them from this wiki page. /quote So why even point 'users' to that page? The initial purpose is to promote the existence of QA testing, both in terms of the history (the wiki) and the future (litmus). And if the manual test is obsolete LO wish to migrate everyone to the litmus test page instead you think it's a good idea to direct users on this list to that page? Seems a bit odd to me. Cool. Have you *actually* installed 3.5.1rc1 (as noted in the litmus test)? Description: Test run for *3.5.1 RC* regression testing. Please use *3.5.1 RC* build to test the cases in this run. No, there are no new features of personal interest. Well you've got me there... You are asking everyone on this list to hop on over perform pre-release testing yet you've not bothered to install do the same? Amazing. If you did (and you'd need to find it someplace other than: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/ and (currently) only on http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ you'd find that the install (at least on a debian linux system) smokes your existing 3.5.0 install (remember 3.5.0 is the released version). I don't fully understand, but perhaps this is a serious bug? No. It's not a bug at all. It is a fact of testing. If you actually actively did what you are flogging in this thread (pre-release testing) you'd be well aware of the issues with installing test versions on existing systems. To promote otherwise on *this* list is both disingenuous and dangerous. So, while I (we?) appreciate your efforts to get users on this user list as pre-release testers, I'd be overly cautious about asking users on this list to perform litmus tests... At least not without explaining in *detail* what is required, and how to avoid existing LO standard installations being blown away by a pre-release version. That is valid and is of such high importance to be published on the 'qa' web page! IMO it's probably better for 'users' on this list to wait to test/participate when http://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/ actually shows a pre-release version. *And* testers understand the implications of testing. This will avoid the LO blew up my thesis and wiped out all of my exisiting templates/files/settings. (Note: I'm not making light of those that do report such, but instead trying to avoid such reports here in the first place as they are *serious* issues can happen if you don't understand what you are doing when you test.) True, but surely users are sufficiently intelligent to understand not to use alpha, beta, pre-release, release candidate, etc. on computers containing important information such as a thesis??? You've already stated that you've not installed/tested/tried 3.5.x yourself (No, there are no new features of personal interest.) and are unaware that the RC does not install as a dev version and installs over the top of a pre-installed 3.5.0 standard version. So... are you sufficiently intelligent enough to understand that your advise made no mention of this? Any competent tester should have a separate machine. Right... Do you? I seriously doubt that. Any competent tester would have tested on his/her own system *first* (with at several OS's) before posting on this list. Did you? Note: If you (or anyone else) is still reading; I highly advocate testing pre-release versions of LO and AOO whenever possible. However I do not advocate posting invites on an LO (or AOO/OOo) user list recommending that the users on the list jump on in and test an alpha/beta/RC version of LO (or anything) without *first* advising the users/testers of the issues (including data loss/profile loss etc) in doing so blindly. @e-letter: I'm not attempting to dissuade you (and others on this list) from from promoting/asking others to assist in testing alpha/beta/RC versions of LO. I *am* attempting to dissuade you from doing this without first: 1) doing it yourself, 2) knowing explaining the benefits hazards of doing the tests, 3) where how to report what you've done/tested. I would add: 4) ensure that any particular user on this list be prepared to *not* attempt to engage in any dev LO devs/lists regarding issues they find with testing these pre-release versions, particularly those that may involve developers as they will be greeted with both animosity and insults in the process. You'll then be asked for a software patch solution to the problem that you've inocently brought up on the dev list, and then be sent to dev-hell because: 1)
