Hi Ray,
The technical team created the *.odb from
scratch and therefore has the chance to register the *.odb file with OO
You can register an odb file as a datasource at any time. As part of the
deployment *the users* ( user configurations after all ) can simply do
this.
To register an existing odb file interactively 'Tools>Options>OpenOffice
Base>Database' Select the 'new' button. This is a new registration not a
new file. Simply have them register the odb file with the name your calc
file expects.
Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote:
Hi Ray,
* There is no apparent way in "Data Source Explorer" in Calc to connect
an existing *.odb file which has not been registered with OO on
customers' PC's.
2.1 will have this in the DSE, but this obviously doesn't help you here :-\
I suggest that the ods is created with an OnLoad macro, which tries to
locate the .odb, and registers it automatically with a fixed name (if
not already done). This would impose a restriction such as the .odb and
.ods have to be located in the same folder, but with this, it would work.
Ciao
Frank
