Re: [libreoffice-users] looking for help on Base

Hi :)
It's good to hear some success with Base.  I think it might help to have a lot 
of trivial issues amongst the bug-reports to help potential new devs learn their 
way into the code.  The key word there is "might".  


The documentation team would appreciate any help with consolidating various 
guides they have found and perhaps others into something like the state of the 
guides for the other apps but it's a major challenge because Base is 
unpredictably quirky between one release and another.  

Regards from
Tom :)




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From: Don C. Myers <donmyers@myersfarm.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Thu, 4 August, 2011 14:34:44
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] looking for help on Base

Hi Tom,

I've been a Base user for 7 or 8 years. As soon as Base came out I switched to 
it. I had first used a DOS based database, then Access, then Paradox, and then 
Base. For my needs, Base works very well. I used the guide from OpenOffice, 
Getting Started With Base to get things setup The present version can be found 
here, as well as other helps: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Database
There are several small bugs in Base that are more of an annoyance than anything 
else. It is super fast (now that the Linux Java workaround has been found), and 
it is much easier to share the data between my computers than it was with 
Paradox. While they might not have developers working on it, there isn't 
anything I need to have changed. The mail merge with writer works perfectly. 
I've never lost any data. So even if there are not any developers working on it, 
I feel it is a worthy program/application. Anytime I've had an issue of needing 
to know how to do something, I've always been able to find an answer with 
on-line searches.

On 08/04/2011 04:26 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> It's probably better to stick with MS Access tbh.  Base is not being actively
> developed and there are no plans to recruit devs for it.  Hopefully some devs
> might stumble into the project at some point in the future and start working 
on
> the bugs.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Roberto Scotti<roberto.scotti@gmail.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Sent: Thu, 4 August, 2011 9:19:33
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] looking for help on Base
>
> the site  http://www.libreoffice.org/features/base/   states
> "... provides native-support drivers for some of the most-widely
> employed multi-user database engines: MySQL, Adabas D, MS Access..."
>
> When I open Base if I choose to "connect to an existing database" the
> list of available drivers doesn't include MS Access (or JET), it
> includes only:
> JDBC
> JDBC Oracle
> Adabas D
> Foglio elettronico
> dBASE
> Testo
> MySQL
> ODBC
>
> How do you activate the MS Access native-support driver?
> Is a SQLite native-support driver available?
> Many thanks, Roberto Scotti

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