Base Manual

I remember someone on this list asking about a Base manual. There is a
"Getting Started with Base" manual on OO.org. It is from 2009. I have a copy
on my computer. I'm not sure how out of date it is. Has Base changed that
much?

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Hi :slight_smile:

Could you upload it to Alfresco? It is likely to be a good start even if there
have been changes. There is so little about Base that any help is good.

Many thanks and regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

Is that the chapter from the Getting Started Guide? If so, we have
already rebranded it for LO and it's available through the wiki and the
website.

AFAIK, Base hasn't changed a lot. Possibly some new features in LO?

--Jean

Hi :slight_smile:

I don't think any of the Base developers moved over to LO. I think they all
stayed with OOo. Perhaps a few might move over this way now. I noticed a few
new people helping in the users lists where Base questions previously met with
no response (apart from 1 lone voice suggesting they seek answers from OOo
forums). So, perhaps thing might develop now, maybe.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

Hi Jean,

AFAIK, Base hasn't changed a lot. Possibly some new features in LO?

No it hasn't changed a lot, but there are unfortunately a lot of broken
things so little incentive to write/update (other than rebranding) new
documentation for something that doesn't actually work as it appears to
have been designed to, or was actually working in OOo 3.2.x :-/

The lack of a Base programmer specialist does not bode well for the
future of this module if nothing happens soon, because at the moment, we
are more or less entirely dependent on bug fixes provided by Oracle, and
as I have seen with my own eyes, integration of OOo code merges into the
LibO source is not easy and often creates more bugs than it soves, at
least with respect to Base. I can give at least 2 examples :

- mailmerge functionality (incomplete / non-functional / previously
working functionality removed) ;

- parameterised queries : the built-in help seems to be way out of sync
with reality, due to problems in the OOo SQL parser.

I could go on, but it would only depress me further :wink:

Alex