[libreoffice-users] Re: Frustrated Base Users / Errors in Base 3.3 (OO 3.2 work beautifully)

Am 08.02.2011 13:13, Tony Smith wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Firstly, I'd like to say that I don't completely agree with Andreas
> Säger's, post
>
> http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/msg02064.html
>
> Firstly, I have been using OpenOffice from pre version 1 days, and I
> have to say, when Base reached the 3.2 release it was very good, in fact
> 3.1 & 3.2 versions of Base are very good, and if you want to see what
> can be achieved with Base, have a look here

Hi Tony,

Everybody is utilizing this development tool in different ways.

Three issues reported by me. They stopped working from 3.1 to 3.2:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=109549 (filtered data 
uneditable)
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=109726 (affects many 
users trying to do a mail merge from spreadsheet, "everybody" uses 
spreadsheets for merging without noticing how Base is involved)
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=108390 (no 
"add-data-only" forms)

The 3rd one hit me hard in version 2.4.0 and again in 3.2.x
My form design quite often relies on "new-data-only" subforms inheriting 
default data from a parent form. Other "new-data-only" forms  allow 
quick insertion of new foreign key items.

Since 3.3 I can continue working as I used to in 3.1.1.
3.0 as well as 3.1 had release stoppers in the Base component.
Personally, I am not seriously affected by the current Base issues. 
Again, these issues are about things that stopped working from 3.2 to 
3.3 in one build or the other one.

IMHO, the whole thing is very unstable albeit developing very slowly. 
What has been added since version 2.0? Things that should have been 
working right from the start plus syntax highlighting in the SQL editor 
plus report builder which demonstrates the potential of database 
connectivity. However, the report builder can not help building a 
working desktop database. It sits on the other end of the data pipeline.

According to Alexander Thurgood there are zero LibO devs working on 
Base. Therefore I tried to outline how this component could be reduced 
to its core functionality without losing any capability except for 
useless wizards and the hazardous single-file database. These obsolete 
features (wizards and embeded HSQLDB) are entirely coded in Java.

Greetings,
Andreas


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