Hi :) A big +1 Regards from Tom :)
--- On Wed, 1/2/12, Pertti Rönnberg <[email protected]> wrote: From: Pertti Rönnberg <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How get LibreO-Base working? To: [email protected] Cc: "Alex Thurgood" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, 1 February, 2012, 18:36 All of you. Thanks very much for your kindness to bother answering - and for the very interesting discussions. My conclusion is that LO-Base (and OO-Base ?) is not yet - and perhaps will not be as mentioned in the desciption at LO-Wikipedia: "A database management program <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_management_program>, similar to Microsoft Access .. etc" <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Access>. Its really pity because I think the usability of databases is underrated; quite ordinary people should have plenty of use of databases in their every day life if there only were free, easy installed, easy customized templates and some efforts on marketing. I just got a fancy idea that LO-/OO-Base could be that user-friendly solution. Anyway, I still feel it worth trying to see if there should be a way to get my 32bit LO-Base working! I agree. I am a 72 years "oldtimer" with a pure interest to keep up. When in office until about 10 years ago I worked quite a lot with MSAccess and VBA & macros and got somewhat familiar with SQL too. MSAccess alone was enough for quite complicated projects with informative forms/reports and analyses. So now it is not the MySQL/SQLite, it is the PHP-language and getting the MySQL/PHP/Apache combination working that I feel uncomfortable - I also have tried WASP. Again - thanks and all the best! Pertti Rönnberg On 1.2.2012 9:43, Alex Thurgood wrote: > Le 31/01/2012 22:07, Andreas Säger a écrit : > > Hi Andreas, > >> Am 31.01.2012 20:16, Alexander Thurgood wrote: >>> >>> Yes, the dependency on Java JRE/JDK is a pain in the backside, but >>> unfortunately unavoidable if you want to use Base, at least for the time >>> being. >>> >> >> With no Java being installed, I can connect a Base document to any >> non-Java database, write queries, draw input forms and use Calc as >> reporting engine. >> >> > > And I would state that that is an "unusual" user setup. The user here wants a > relational database with subforms and reports and does not want to use mysql, > so where does that leave him her with regard to Base - IMO, with HSQLDB, the > stock db engine provided with LO. For that, you need a JRE/JDK. > > And Calc for reports is OK, much as is Writer, but for anything a bit more > than a simple report, the user will have to deal with not only the > idiosyncrasies of the respective tool used for creating the report, plus, in > general, learn to use macros. The whole benefit of having a specific > reporting tool (the Java based ORB extension) is that this is suppose to ease > that pain. > > Personally, I'd love to be able to say, you get a great and easy to use db > reporting engine without Java in LO, but that is simply not the case at the > moment. > > > Alex > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
