Jonathan Markevich wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 1:09 AM, Mark Haury <wolfmane@xxxxxxxxx > <mailto:wolfmane@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > Peter Bart wrote: > > > > > I don't use Evolution, Schedule world, or Google. I use Access and > up until now my Visor. I've been trying for a long time to migrate > my Access databases to OOo Base, but it can't import tables or csv > files any more than gpe can, and when connecting to the original > Access database can't deal with any of the other database objects > at all. Its report formatting is also incredibly limited at this > point. (In my opinion, Base is still alpha level software, utterly > unlike the rest of the suite.) > > > Yeah you're better off working in MySQL, really. But as long as you > have Access, look for a sqlite odbc driver. I think you can even open > sqlite databases directly in Base. You may be able to import and > export on the desktop. > > You can import in Base from CSV by the way, it's just amazingly > counterintuitive (though it makes a certain functional sense). Create > and register a DB first, then open the CSV file in Calc. Click View - > Data sources. Open the DB tree to view "Tables". Now select and drag > the data and drop it on Tables. Weird huh? > > Maybe this is the way to get your GPE data working for you... > > > > If anybody can point me to a different cross-platform (mainly > Windows and Linux, but Mac would be a plus) database that has most > of the power and ease of Access (and the most important features > are reliable import/export of csv and the ability to create report > layouts from scratch), I would be *extremely* appreciative. I've > tried to learn about SQL and frontends for it, but everything I > can find basically assumes one already knows all about it and seem > to be based on scripting, and I need to work from a GUI, including > creating databases from scratch. The reason I need cross-platform > and GUI is so I can share it with others in my organization who > are not all that computer-literate and have different OS's than me. > > > Well you could try FileMaker, only not for Linux... File-based > databases are a little dead. MS kinda locked the market, then pursued > it as far as it can go. > > As for MySQL, you can do everything in their excellent GUI (or > SQLYog), but you have to commit to a server-based database. My we're > getting off topic now, though aren't we... To completely get off topic, try Glom - it's a desktop graphical database thing (uses pgsql as backend I believe) and it has a maemo port - you set up forms in developer mode on the desktop then you can have essentially the same entry/review screen on the desktop and the tablet. I haven't tried it on the tablet, but I have read about it on planet gnome and have played with it on the desktop. Ryan -- Ryan Pavlik www.cleardefinition.com #282 + (442) - [X] A programmer started to cuss Because getting to sleep was a fuss As he lay there in bed Looping 'round in his head was: while(!asleep()) sheep++; _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
