Hi :) We don't have a formal way of marking a thread as solved. Mostly people don't even try. Sometimes people do as i just did (copied from linuxquestions.org i think or maybe Wolvix forums back in the day) or elsewhere in the subject-line.
Thanks for the thanks, but i think it was the "everyone else" that really earned it. :) I just did a typical rant and then bits&bobs about work-flow Anyway, congrats and regards from Tom :) On 8 October 2014 20:50, m. nease <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Tom (and everyone), > > I'll keep that in mind for future replies. > > Meanwhile, I think I've had enough advice for now and should perhaps mark > the thread 'solved' (can someone advise me how to do that)? > > To sum up, I'm convinced at this point that working a MS database from > Base just isn't practical and that the data need to be exported from the > Access db on a Windows machine with Access installed. I had a brilliant > suggestion off-line: try the library? Of course. My local library does > have MS Office and I should be able to do anything I want with the thing > there, including exporting the data for entry at home into a Base db. Duh! > (Thanks, Brian!) > > Thanks again to everyone for your time and attention. > > mike > > > On 10/08/2014 12:31 PM, Tom Davies wrote: > > Hi :) > You can include comments to various different people in a single email. > > I like the DistroWatch method of saying something to the whole mailing-list > in general and then various paragraphs such as > > @ Tom, Alex, Werner, Peter, Janoslaw, Dan, etc. Thanks! :) > > @ Dan. ... > > @ Peter. Not had chance to try that yet but thanks. So far just dodging > Windows entirely! > > @ whoever .... > > > I think Peter is onto a winner because he's actually done it the most > recently out of all of us. I haven't managed it at all yet (except by > convincing my boss that we really don't need the crumbling old database at > all nowadays anyway and moved to just a VERY simple csv file instead of > having any database) > > I think Jaroslaw wasn't a specific suggestion for this particular case but > more an idea for the whole of LibreOffice to consider for the future. > Really would be better to mention it on the "Discuss" mailing list except > that it's probably difficult to talk about Base there. Bringing it up here > means he does actually reach people interested in and knowledgeable about > Base. We often go off-track on this list and that often helps the person > deal with other stuff or work-out a better work-around. > > Regards from > Tom :) > > > On 8 October 2014 19:29, m. nease <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks, Jaroslaw, > > Your ideal solution is a bit over my head at this time, but I do > appreciate it and will hang onto it for future reference. > > Thanks again for your time and attention. > > mike > > On 10/08/2014 07:21 AM, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: > > On 8 October 2014 12:08, Tom Davies <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi :) > I think Alex and Werner are giving good answers but you'll need to find > some way of temporarily borrowing a Windows machine in order to help. > > Access is part of the whole vendor lock-in thing that MS seems to do so > well. They don't seem to want to make it easy for people to use other > products to read their stuff as that seems to ensure that people 'have to' > keep buying into their products. > > Once people DO start using non-MS alternatives they tend to find it easy to > move between a variety of different programs and tools quite easily. They > also tend to never go back to MS tools because MS tools just aren't as safe > and reliable and don't perform so well either. > > So, MS seems to have to create as many blockers as possible to avoid people > just quickly trying out alternatives. They can't seem to compete on > quality or in "fair markets" > > +1 > > BTW, This is also why Kexi does not use Windows-only ADO, which (as > many believe) would be another variant of the lock-in. > mdbtools is used exclusively, under the mask. > > Ideal solution would be to start and maintain a port of Jackcess to > C/C++ to avoid Java, even greater if this was independent project, not > a part of LO or Kexi. > > > > -- > > *Not* "sent from my iphone". > > > > -- > > *Not* "sent from my iphone". > -- To unsubscribe 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
