[libreoffice-users] Re: New user to BASE

Le 07/08/11 03:55, Wayne a écrit :

Hi Wayne,

> A couple of three days ago someone, on this list, mention not to use
> BASE, as there wasn't much development going on. Their suggestion
> was to look for a different front end to use. Can someone make a suggestion
> as to what would be a good alternative to use?
> No wars please. Just good advice. Thanks

LibreOffice Base can do quite a lot, but it requires a fairly steep
initial investment once you realise that the wizards are a bit limited,
and thus you become reliant on macro programming for the unmet features
that would be found in other front end solutions like FMPro or Approach
or Access, and dare I say it, the fairly numerous bugs that are now in
the source code (and aren't yet being fixed).

Having used Approach in the past, I would have to agree with Roland if
all you want is to have a db front end that you can use on Linux (via
Wine) and Windows. If you want it to provide a front end for Mac as
well, then you will be stuck with either LibreOffice Base and a fairly
sustantial choice of server backends, or using some other interface
design tool for your db such as Ruby, XML forms, PHP, etc.


Alex




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