Hi :) Are all the community of users on the same Local Area Network, such as a compnay network or something? If so it might be better to have 1 single database back-end (with all the data in it) held centrally and just send the users the Base front-end.
Your current plan creates a duplicate set of data for each user which they will presumably each add to independantly. Would their updates need to be synchronised again later and then make each independant locally held copy up-to-date with everyone's updates? If so then a single centrally held copy of the data would avoid a lot of the syncing trouble. It's not always possible to have a centrally held copy of course. Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: receiver <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Sunday, 16 December 2012, 1:49 >Subject: Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] Value '0000-00-00' can not be >represented as java.sql.Date > >Yes, that was something that naturally came to mind so I did try it and >it does solve the problem of the zero valued date. However, my >objective is to develop a database file (i.e., .odb) that I can send to >a community of users who may lack the technical savvy to wrestle with >prerequisite setup requirements. In this sense ODBC is a bit of a >beast. It seems to rely on something that Windows refers to as data >sources which are external to the .odb file. There are lots of options >which would make one think that it should be possible to invest in some >extra work when creating the .odb file that makes life simpler for the >technically challenged community of users. However, I wasn't able to >achieve such a result. In fact it appears as though LibreOffice Base >does not even allow the use of what Windows calls the file type of data >source. > >Both ODBC and JDBC require my users to have connectors installed. I >haven't yet determined that JDBC is good enough to solve the problem, of >having my users know about server connections, but it does look like >more of the database (i.e., MySQL server) connection specific setup is >confined to the .odb file. This is why I'd like to make JDBC work. >Insofar as zero valued dates seem to be quite natural for a MySQL >database one would think that the MySQL supplied Connector J could deal >with such more elegantly. > >David ... > >-------- Original Message -------- >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Value '0000-00-00' can not be >represented as java.sql.Date >Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 17:54:39 -0500 >From: Jay Lozier <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] > > > >On 12/15/2012 04:03 PM, receiver wrote: >> I'm trying to create a LibreOffice (3.6.4) Base document which utilizes >> a MySQL database. I have installed the MySQL Connector J (5.1.22) and >> have good results with one significant exception. The subject error >> prevents display of a table which does contain dates. I suspect that >> this may be a problem with the JDBC connector and have reported it here >> <http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?39,576155,576155#msg-576155>, however >> it also seems possible that this is caused by LibreOffice Base. >> >> Any advice on what I may have overlooked would be appreciated. >> >> David ... >> >David, > >What OS are you using? You might find an alternate connector at >http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/ that will work. I would try >the ODBC connector for your OS. > >Jay > >-- >Jay Lozier >[email protected] > > >-- >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 > > > > > > > >-- >View this message in context: >http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Fwd-Re-libreoffice-users-Value-0000-00-00-can-not-be-represented-as-java-sql-Date-tp4024588.html >Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.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
