On Fri, 2016-07-29 at 20:53 -0600, Ken Springer wrote: > The subject says it all, how successful is Base in importing Access > Databases? > > LO 5.0.x > > -- > Ken > Mac OS X 10.8.5 > Firefox 44.0 > Thunderbird 38.0.1 > "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash > and it's gone!" > > Unfortunately, MS Access users were spoilt with the 'complete' database package supporting tables, queries, forms, reports and modules/macros. Although its 'openness' or performance or compatibility with the rest of the MS Office suite leave much to be desired (in my humble opinion) the MSaccess package is a (more or less) complete solution. LibreOffice on the other hand cannot match the user comfort (yet!).
There is a tool, access2sql that to allows you to generate the sql needed to build all your 'tables' again (including their data) and 'queries'. But for the 'forms' and 'reports' you will have to start from scratch in LOBase and, as I say, the user comfort for that is not as mature as in MSAccess. In LOBase you can also write modules/macros in Visual Basic. I have no experience of that either, but it does suggest that VBA macros might with reservation be portable and modifiable. In other words, i blieve it is not hopelessly impossible and I am sure that the experts can add their 'two penn'orth' Cheers Harvey -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org 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