Boris Mlinar wrote:
hi
I've seen information that OO v.3 is about to be launched. Most
probably now is not too late to implement another feature:
- reading gmail online spreadsheet
as possibility to connect to local database or prepare data to be
included in label printing
Hello Boris,
I suppose you mean that you would want to use the URL for a published
Google Docs spreadsheet as the data source to a Base file, yes?
Interesting idea - only problem that I see is that the URL given to you
from google for the document doesn't actual point to a document, nor
does it point to a service that will send down a document - it sends
HTML/CSS/JS.
For example publish your spreadsheet under Google docs and then paste
the URL into a File Open dialog under OO.o - what you will get, after a
while, is a Writer file opened in HTML mode.
Of course you can save your Google doc spreadsheet as an ODF file, and
there are a couple of extensions available that try to integrate the
OO.o with Google docs. ( personally I have not had a lot of success with
them, but the developers are still making updates so I figure they will
get it worked out )
Another interesting idea would be to have a driver for Base that would
could use the GMail address book as a data source for mail merge.
Anyway - if you really want to make the suggestion you need to do so
using the Issue tracking system at the main OpenOffice.org web site.
If you are interested in pursuing that just go to
http://qa.openoffice.org and you will find instructions on how to do so.
Drew
ps - Yes, the ability to get new features into 3.0 is long past, in fact
just the opposite, they (the release team) have just recently begun
changing the target release tags for a number of features/fixes from 3.0
to 3.1 :>(
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