[libreoffice-users] Re: database or spreadsheet

Am 06.02.2012 19:22, Dan Lewis wrote:
       I wonder how many people who use LO have read chapter 8 of the
> Getting Started Gude, "Getting Started with Base"? I know that I have
> very seldom seen a comment about its contents. (I wrote it and am
> presently updating it. I'm also working on the Base Guide in its
> entirety.)
>
> Dan

Sorry, that guide is too light weight. The matter is as abstract as a 
programming language. It takes an IT guy with some theoretical concepts 
and experience. Most parts of the helping Base tools are useless. They 
can not do what they pretend to be made for. Most importantly, the form 
wizard can not build forms. Most of the possible types of forms have to 
be drawn by hand and you need to know very well what you are going to do 
when you build up your own hierarchy in the form navigator.

A little bit of click experience with MS Access is not enough to design 
a relational database connected to Base just like some experience with 
the VBA macro recorder and code completion does not qualify anybody to 
program anything outside that specific context.

The problem is that too many new developers try to learn having their 
hands on the problems they are trying to solve right now. This is very 
inefficient.
In my opinion, the "mid level tutorial" by Mariano Casanova is the best 
guide to start learning about databases in general in the context of the 
Base component: 
http://openoffice.org/projects/documentation/downloads/directory/Base/Mid%20level%20Base%20tutorial. 
Most importantly, the term "macro" occurs only twice on 189 pages.


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