Re: [libreoffice-users] Adding fields to existing Base table

2014-07-11 Thread Marion Noel Lodge
Hi Dave, You might also like to have a look at the H2 Database Engine, see - http://www.h2database.com/html/main.html I have found that it is a good stable replacement for HSQLDB and have used it in 6 different databases with good success. There is an active users group, and some of them report

Re: [libreoffice-users] Bug with Chapter Title in running headers

2014-07-11 Thread Kartik Subbarao
On 07/10/2014 10:12 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: I wanted to applaud you for a well done bug report. Spent some time looking at this so that when the QA team looks at this someone will have already tested. More thoughts at the bottom. Thanks Andrew, appreciate your taking the time to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Adding fields to existing Base table

2014-07-11 Thread dave boland
Thank you Noel. I will check this out. My head is spinning right now with all of the choices. I need to get something together for next Fri., so I'm going with LO Base for now. Seems like a decent choice because I will be the only user for most of the rest of the year. Later this year there

Re: [libreoffice-users] Adding fields to existing Base table

2014-07-11 Thread Ian Whitfield
On 07/11/2014 04:21 PM, dave boland wrote: Thank you Noel. I will check this out. My head is spinning right now with all of the choices. I need to get something together for next Fri., so I'm going with LO Base for now. Seems like a decent choice because I will be the only user for most of

[libreoffice-users] Macro to autoload first recent doc

2014-07-11 Thread Jon Harringdon
When I start LO, I want it to autoload the first document in the Recent Documents list. I have found no option to do this in LO itself, so I tried to cobble together an LO Basic macro attached to application start that does that. I googled and found a couple of posts that deal with similar

Re: [libreoffice-users] Adding fields to existing Base table

2014-07-11 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Actually HsqlDb from their own site is usually a huge improvement over the internal back-end version and is apparently really good too. However i think HsqlDb aims to be for small, light-weight but extremely fast databases so it probably wouldn't suit this particular use-case. I get the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Adding fields to existing Base table

2014-07-11 Thread dave boland
IanW, I'm concerned with Base, but I have some things to put together for next Fri. which will be the data in some report. No big deal - just a starting point. Since time is tight, do you think I would be smarter to continue with Base/HSQL, or go to Base as the front tend and MySQL or MariaDB

Re: [libreoffice-users] Adding fields to existing Base table

2014-07-11 Thread Marion Noel Lodge
Hi Tom, In relation to the H2 database you said - I get the impression that H2 is also a small, fast one but could easily be wrong. All of my H2 databases would be classified as small, but a couple of years ago an H2 user posted on the Users Group that inserts to his data base slowed down