Re: [libreoffice-users] New user to BASE

2011-08-17 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky
This is one of those things that drives me crazy about BASE. The underpinning program logic is available, but the ease of interface of Approach is missing. Approach lends itself to quick organizing of information while BASE forces you to organize yourself. On 8/7/2011 6:38 AM, Roland Hughes

Re: [libreoffice-users] New user to BASE

2011-08-17 Thread soumalya ray
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Re: [libreoffice-users] New user to BASE

2011-08-17 Thread Tom Davies
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Re: [libreoffice-users] New user to BASE

2011-08-17 Thread Tom Davies
un, 7 August, 2011 16:26:33 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] New user to BASE I agree with Roland. When I used to work for a local analytical laboratory I wrote a very large application that tracks incoming samples, customers, and related data. They used it for almost 9 years until last Oc

Re: [libreoffice-users] New user to BASE

2011-08-07 Thread Brian Grawburg
I agree with Roland. When I used to work for a local analytical laboratory I wrote a very large application that tracks incoming samples, customers, and related data. They used it for almost 9 years until last October when they decided to implement a LIMS (laboratory information management sy

Re: [libreoffice-users] New user to BASE

2011-08-07 Thread Roland Hughes
Quite honestly, if you are simply a home user or a one person business, find yourself a copy of SmartSuite 98 or later and install it under Wine on Linux or under XP. Lotus Approach is one of the simplest to use and most robust personal database systems out there. Spreadsheet views, beautifully f

Re: [libreoffice-users] New user to BASE

2011-08-06 Thread Wayne
On 08/06/2011 11:07 PM, planas wrote: Wayne On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 21:55 -0400, Wayne wrote: Hi, A couple of three days ago someone, on this list, mention not to use BASE, as there wasn't much development going on. Their suggestion was to look for a different front end to use. Can someone make

Re: [libreoffice-users] New user to BASE

2011-08-06 Thread Wayne
On 08/06/2011 10:56 PM, Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow Guides) wrote: On 07/08/11 11:55, Wayne wrote: Hi, A couple of three days ago someone, on this list, mention not to use BASE, as there wasn't much development going on. Their suggestion was to look for a different front end to use. Can som

Re: [libreoffice-users] New user to BASE

2011-08-06 Thread planas
Wayne On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 21:55 -0400, Wayne wrote: > Hi, > A couple of three days ago someone, on this list, mention not to use > BASE, as there wasn't much development going on. Their suggestion > was to look for a different front end to use. Can someone make a suggestion > as to what would

Re: [libreoffice-users] New user to BASE

2011-08-06 Thread Simon Cropper (The foss Workflow Guides)
On 07/08/11 11:55, Wayne wrote: Hi, A couple of three days ago someone, on this list, mention not to use BASE, as there wasn't much development going on. Their suggestion was to look for a different front end to use. Can someone make a suggestion as to what would be a good alternative to use? No

[libreoffice-users] New user to BASE

2011-08-06 Thread Wayne
Hi, A couple of three days ago someone, on this list, mention not to use BASE, as there wasn't much development going on. Their suggestion was to look for a different front end to use. Can someone make a suggestion as to what would be a good alternative to use? No wars please. Just good advice. Th