Hi Andrew, > First – It shouldn't be an example Base application at all! Rather, it > should be an example of an OpenOffice Suite based solution for some > business operation.
Ideally, this would be the same ;) When talking about an office-base solution, please also keep in mind how to present this to the user. Currently, there's no possibility to embed spreadsheets and presentations into a database document. This means as soon as you use those kind of documents, you have a collection of files. While, in OOo, it is easy to find an entry point into a database (F4 in Writer, as the easiest), it's currently difficult to present a collection of files to the user. That said, I'm not sure we shouldn't stick to a single database document in the first run. On the long term, there could be different ways to have an solution spanning the whole office functionality, but none of those which spring to my mind (I surely miss some) are qick to implement for one of the next minor releases. > Fourth – One size never actually fits all. Hearkening back to my my > comments regarding separating audiences by skill level I believe that no > single example will be appropriate nor adequate. > > Therefor I would propose that any project to produce this example have > as an objective, not one, but a small collection of examples. All these > would be related, but each able to function independently of the others. > Each should be focused to a specific skill level ( novice to apprentice > ), and each should add functionality to the one before it. Not sure about this one. Again, I wonder how to present this. "Base Example (novice)" up to "Base Example (Expert)" (not as plain as this, but you get the idea)? Half of the users would judge themself wrong an open the wrong document :) Perhaps when addressing different user levels, different scenarios are better (even if this means more effort). My assumption here would be that there's a (rough, not perfect) relation between the experience level and the problem domain: A novice user is more likely to wanting to create a video collection, and somebody wanting to creating a video collection is more likely to be a novice user. Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/staroffice - - OpenOffice.org Database http://dba.openoffice.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
