Well, now that I have had my laugh - and it was doubled as I remembered I already knew your name, back to the topic at hand. * While I wait to hear from our intrepid user swarup *
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Back to OT @Regina - regarding loading an example database with data - that is a non-issue. Loading dummy data to tables is done all the time. There are stand alone tools available for just this - they won't work with an embedded Base file - but they will with a HSQLdb server model. Many are FOSS and after the data is loaded you just extract it with a script command and populate the embedded Base file. Or just write your own script to do it. A couple of other points: No one example is going to satisfy all of the users needs. Regina's planned example is going to be very simple - because she is targeting it, if I understand her correctly, at users that have very simple needs and no experience. OK, it should be sufficient for linking from the help file, but isn't much use in the long run for the majority of what people will do with the package. But it serves a purpose none the less, if you are creating basic database lesson plans for instance. The fact is the best solution for small database needs is Calc not Base, just as it is Excel not MS Access in MSO. Always has been and always will be. If you are chasing after these simple database needs you are waisting your and there time, they won't come in any numbers and those that do will mostly leave disappointed. I will not even add a IMO to that - it is a fact, proven on the ground by actual users. Nor is it a compromise in any way, it is just a case of the right tool for the right job. [aside] I read somewhere that OO.org may be looking at adding strong typing to Calc - what a mistake that would be, IMO. The exception to the above rule about Calc vs Base ( spreadsheet, that is all about data vs database, that is all about rules ) is when you can supply fully canned small database applications. Which is exactly what all of the competitors to Base do. That is why one of my earlier recommendations was that we create actual databases for all of the schema supplied 'as personal' in the wizard. That would yield big returns. IMO again. However, since I did not do that - then it comes down to this simple fac - He that does the work makes the decisions. ( in this case He is a She ) So... @Regina, just move forward with what it is you are developing. That doesn't stop anyone else from developing and offering to the community anything else they would like to contribute, after all. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
