Base, OO.org (Re: [plug] Hotmail access from Linux e-mail client?)

[Shayne O'Neill]

Well. I've only had a brief play with it on windoze, but it was enough to
make me really excited by it.

Basically it looks like access, but with the main icons
(table/query/form/report) down the side. The thing hooks up to a variety
of back end db's including its own. I dont *think* it'll hook to access
without an apropriate odbc/jdbc backend, and I'm not inclined to think
it'd read in the forms or report definitions.

The program is clearly not finished yet, as its got quite a few glitches
but its pretty bloody near finished. Some tables wont import etc, but
thats probably just a bug hunt type scenario (One of the tables on my work
server which is a charming 30 field horror generated by one of the office
kids). Erm. The forms and the like seem to use some sort of mode of
oo/writer. So its not pop up forms, and seems to more resemble the
filemaker mode of doing things (which is not a bad thing in our office
where the competencies are more filemaker based). The reporting is *ok* ,
but perhaps a little primative. But again, its early days.

The query mode is really nice. I've spent a heck of a lot of my last few
years building SQL messes for people , and I think I can teach em to do
drag/drop multitable queries on this thing, as its pretty darn close to
accesses ones.

Erm.

The big test is really how well it'll integrate with the other stuff on
Open Office. We are moving to mambo for our website, and It'd be nice to
be able to leaverage it to build a macro "Publish this jive" that
leaverages the mysql access to pump documents from writer into the
database. The possibilities are limitless, particularly with that python
scripting capacity.

Caveat: I really really need to see an Aqua version of it for the OS X
machines at work. We all run either OS X or terminals off the linux app
server, but the X-Windows port for OS X really is a pain in the arse. X
apps seem to fit Apple like a square peg in a round hole.

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On Sun, 26 Dec 2004, Timothy White wrote:

> Shayne O'Neill wrote:
>
> > Also, has anyone played around with the new new 'base' access knock off in
> > openoffice? Its utter sex.
>
> Anyone care to give us a review? (Or know of a good one with screen
> shots.)[1]
>
> Is it compatible with access? Other there any gotchas that people have
> found.
>
> Thanks
>
> Tim
> [1] I know that I could just hop on Google and get reviews, screenshots
> and bugs but I am looking for opinions from people that I know and
> trust, not randoms that I've never met.
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