Re: [PLUG] LibreOffice Base experience?

2019-01-28 Thread Mark Phillips
I would second the use of django as an option. Not with Sqlite but mysql. A web interface can be used by almost anyone, so passing it on is easy. There are tons of python programmers out there who could help in a pinch. Django is out of the box ready to run with a few tweeks. The built in admin

Re: [PLUG] LibreOffice Base experience?

2019-01-27 Thread Roderick Anderson
Thanks for the reply Rich. I did some programming many years ago. Perl was/is my preferred language. Gave Python a try but it didn't stick. I'm trying to get out of the computer support mode so I want something that the next victim (ah ... volunteer) can get help with that doesn't

Re: [PLUG] LibreOffice Base experience?

2019-01-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 26 Jan 2019, Roderick Anderson wrote: Anyone have experience building a non-trival DB application using LibreOffice? Rod, Tried it a couple of times and gave up. I think I got crazy one day and removed all the java/JRE stuff so LO is not happy. JRE (or openjfx) is harmless. The

[PLUG] LibreOffice Base experience?

2019-01-26 Thread Roderick Anderson
Anyone have experience building a non-trival DB application using LibreOffice? My forehead is hurting. Mostly it appears to be issues with using Firebird or SQLite3. I'm currently working on a Linux Mint 18.3 system with LibreOffice 6 installed from a non-Repo .deb. I think I got crazy