Erwin's StarOffice Tango

Just switch! - What would you like to know about StarOffice?
According to some feedback that I received from non-Sun email accounts, it looks like some people are actually reading my stuff and are finding it useful. Thanks a lot for the input!

I still have quite a few ideas what I can write about here in my blog, but I'd like to hear your ideas, too. Just comment on this blog entry and let me know what comes to your mind!
( Apr 20 2005, 06:48:31 PM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [4]

Kommentare:

The kind of things you write in your XForms-related posts with screenshots is really grand! More, more...

Gesendet von Yann am April 20, 2005 at 10:57 PM CEST #

Yes, the small tutes are interesting. I was actually thinking it would be good to put them on a Wiki so that other people can add to them. Nice!

Gesendet von Ben am April 21, 2005 at 10:51 AM CEST #

I'm interested in hooking up OpenOffice to various open source CMS systems. The guiding points are: re-usable content and collaboration.

As I think through this, I stumble across some small issues, such as: how do I encode in a passage that it came from somewhere else? I tried a custom namespace but this was stripped out in the parser (1.1.x). Perhaps XLink? How would I do this via the Macro API? Perhaps I'm looking at it all wrong?

Then, larger issues: do I really want the data itself, or some view setup by a programmer that renders it into a presentation (OOo markup)? For example, showing all the resumes in a job database requires formatting the data, and I don't think average people want to do so.

Gesendet von Paul Everitt am April 22, 2005 at 02:52 PM CEST #

Your tutorials are most helpful and I'm impressed by the XForms support in OpenOffice. If it wouldn't be too much trouble, I would benefit from a download link to the completed .odt file. For certain tasks I learn better by deconstrucing the example, while for others I learn by following the steps.

In general, I'm looking for a rich example of XForms usage in OpenOffice in order to test the feasibility of OO for a rather high-profile application. Advice on where I can find some elaborate examples would be most appreciated.

Gesendet von Duane Gran am November 17, 2005 at 06:55 PM CET #