I am trying to develop an application for scheduling employee shifts in Open Office Base. How suitable is the software for this sort of thing. I have seen some threads where the programming aspect of the software was criticized as difficult to use and full of bugs. Is this the case? I have been having a difficult time just getting the thing to open a new form from a form that will serve as the master menu.
I tried the method in the second post here and when I click the button I get the message:
BASIC runtime error.
An exception occurred
Type: com.sun.star.lang.illegalArgumentException
Message: Unable to find the document ‘Index Form’
(my form has a different name, but you get the idea).
I would have this thing half done in Access by now, but the place I am doing it for uses open office. If doing a simple thing like this is stopping me, it doesn’t bode well…
And I am starting to think that this is completely worthless software. With a simple thing like adding a field to a form, I have spent two hours and not been able to do it. If open source is the future, kill me now. This shit was designed by lobotomized drunk retarded monkeys on crack.
Since the OP has now started a Pit thread on the subject, let’s keep this thread focused on the questions in the OP, and respond to these sentiments in the other forum.
As I said in the pit thread, Base is the one program I wound up having to use the Microsoft equivalent. You can get early versions of Access pretty cheap. Even '97 will do what you want.
I’m sorry this isn’t helpful information. I couldn’t even get as far as you did.