Macros in Database Documents – Milestone 1

A while ago, I talked about macros in database documents, and that we had finished the work to re-factor various parts of OpenOffice.org's application and scripting frameworks, so that we could start embarking upon implementing the real feature: Basic macros as well as JavaScript, BeanShell and Python scripts embedded in database documents.

Nearly 3 months passed, and what I now want to advertise is the first milestone of this implementation: If you're interested in, you can get your hands onto a version of OpenOffice.org which allows you to put your macros into your database document, and then run those macros from all sub components of the database: from within your forms, reports, the query, table and relation designer, and from within the table data view. Well, of course also from within the database document itself.

The CWS which is dedicated to implementing the feature is called odbmacros2, and a snapshot of it is available to everybody for download, as Linux and as Windows version.

For the details of what you can expect, please refer to the feature specification in our Wiki, and to the release notes in the download directory.

If you are curious (I hope you are!), then please try out this version, and be sure to give us your feedback, good as well as bad one. Preferably, you should user our project's mailing list for this purpose: users@dba.openoffice.org.

Happy Scripting!

tags: database macros openoffice.org scripting