Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 63882
a 'runtime viewer' would improve the oo handling
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:43:39 UTC
How to advance on MS-Office? Dear open office friends, copying MS is not always the best way of making the best product. In this writing i will advice you about some possibilities I see to improve Open Office in functionality in such a way it will stand out to MS Office in these new functionality. Base better Base could made much better if a runtime viewer would exist. What I mean is this. The forms made with Base look great, but one would like to make them web ready immediate. One would like to run them on a server linked into a MySQL, ORACLE or other RDBMS. Obviously a login module would be needed also. Since the platform OOo is based on is java, this should possible with some effort. On other kind of object one would like to be able to work this way are charts. Two items for better user friendliness jdbc connectivity. This is to complex for normal users to set up. U suggest to select a standard place (directory) to put the drivers in. Make a reference list e.g. Database x needs driver y. If the needed driver is not in the standard directory give a clear error “xxx drive not found in c:\sss\rrr\†or “xxx driver not found in /sss/rrr/â€. Language support. It is confusing to go to options to change the language of a document or paragraph. One would like to do this directly from the menu.
clu->boudi2: thank you for your support, but please poste in future time in a proper way: http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/basic_rules.html - in this issue i take the first idea to create a senseful summary - for the rest, please write seperate issues - one idea per feature enhancement issue - no 'privat storys' but a sensful description thx