Re: [libreoffice-users] Suggestions: Sorry but the feedback page is not working, I am sending by email

Hi :)
Thanks Dan!  So forms done in Writer are effectively "read only" and to make forms that allow 
data-entry really needs the forms to be made in Base?  


That makes more sense than what i was thinking.  Thanks for clarifying that for me! :)

Thanks and regards from 
Tom :)  





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 From: Dan Lewis <elderdanlewis@gmail.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
Sent: Friday, 6 September 2013, 17:27
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Suggestions: Sorry but the feedback page is not working, I am 
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On 09/06/2013 12:14 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> It's fine posting to the Users List to start with.  We might be able to deal with issues directly 
> and if not then we can signpost you to more appropriate places.
>
> I'm not sure why "OfficeSecurity" is involved so they might be dropped from subsequent replies.
>
>
> Base forms and reports 'should' be written in Writer or Calc rather than in Base itself shouldn't 
> they?  That would protect users from seeing the Base interface and just present normal users with 
> the familiar interface they get in Writer or Calc.


Base forms are created using Writer, but they are *not* the same thing 
as X-Forms. The purpose of forms in Base is to enter data into the 
tables of the database. This is not a purpose that X-Forms in Writer nor 
anything in Calc can provide.

--Dan


> With macros i think the problem is that MS uses a different language for macros and their macros 
> keep being used as an attack vector for malware.  So, all sorts of ways have had to be built to 
> prevent  macros from executing whenever they want.
>
> Sadly, LibreOffice uses a different version of Basic that doesn't seem to have  had security 
> issues "out in the wild" (afaik).  A
>    couple of times people have been urged to upgrade to new branches to
> avoid known issues that were fixed in the newer branch but that was almost entirely preventative 
> rather than reactive.  I think LibreOffice even allows a few other languages to be used, such as 
> Python.
>
> So, if people write macros using the language(s) that  LibreOffice uses then presumably those 
> macros don't have to be imported/converted?
>
>
> Sorry i don't know any of this from 1st hand experience but just have my opinions built-up from 
> the many posts on the Users List about these topics so i could easily have misunderstood things.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
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> ________________________________
>    From: Rodrigo Bigo <rodrigobigo@ig.com.br>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org; officesecurity@lists.freedesktop.org
> Sent: Friday, 6 September 2013, 13:08
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Suggestions: Sorry but the feedback page is not working, I am 
> sending by email
>   
>
> Sorry but the feedback page is not working, I am sending by email
>
> Via Google
>
> Hello,
>
> I downloaded the package LibreOffice, because I am currently the a Visual
> Basic and MsAccess programmer.
>
> And I thought a very good tool, however I would like to send some
> suggestions.
>
> The suggestions are:
>
> 1 - Password Option to prevent the drawing mode for end users, objects from
> the database as Forms, Tables, Reports, and Macros
>
> 2 - Option to start creating a form that would be a menu option to open
> other forms, views, tables, queries and reports.
>
> 3 - Boot Options to a database, with the ability to more easily hide the
> toolbars and menus.
>
> End users are not familiar with many tools and buttons. And they need ease
> and simplicity to be able to use a program.
>
> 4 - To have to import macros, and ask the password protection code,
> discourages programmers to distribute databases for end-users and even by
> the internet. Ideally macros not needed to be imported, and they would only
> be allocated in a sub-folder of the archive database.
>
> If these options could be implemented, surely this would stimulate much
> MsAccess programmers to migrate to LibreOfficeBase.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Rodrigo Bigo Jr


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