Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 48103
Opening base file using context-menu Windows XP
Last modified: 2017-05-20 10:47:43 UTC
On Win XP right-click on your destop > new > (no Base). Other parts of the suite like Writer, Draw, Calc and Impress are there. Someone has forgotten Base ;) -- Regards, Arthur
i can repro that
clu->tra: we should fix that as fast as possible - blame on us
TRA->IS: It's your's.
IS -> FS: Do you think this is useful for base?
fs->is: yes, definately :)
is -> fs: This is not so easy. We need an empty database file. As I heard, Java is absolutely required. Therefore we need a more intelligent mechanism. Please take care of this prerequisites.
Ah, yes, I though the menu item is expected to start an office to create a new DB. Instead, it's expected to simply create an empty document (without invoking the application), which is difficult for Base. In theory, we could create an empty Base document, which is simply a embedded HSQLDB database. Such a document would be completely valid. However, if no Java is accessible for the application, then opening this Base document would fail, which is not what the user might expect. No other flavours of "empty" Base documents exist - we'd always need more information. TV suggested (and I like the idea) to create a document which, when opened, automatically starts the usual wizard to ask for this information. I like this idea, however, it requires substantial work. Targeting the issue to later because of this.
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".