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 :) ________________________________ From: Don C. Myers <[email protected]> To: [email protected] 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<[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > 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 > > -- *~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~* Don C. Myers e-PRO Certified by the National Association of Realtors Manager, Farm and Rural Property Division *Coldwell Banker University Realty *126 East Foster Avenue, State College, PA 16801 Office Phone: 814-237-6543 Fax: 814-237-6502 Home Phone: 814-422-8111 Cell Phone: 814-571-9518 Visit the Farm and Rural Property Division Web Site at _www.cbur-ruralproperty.com <http://www.cbur-ruralproperty.com/> _View Don's Farm Web Site at www.myersfarm.com <http://www.myersfarm.com/> *~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~* -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
