[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 51203] Hyperlink Field Type in Base

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Sat Jul 28 04:50:24 CEST 2012


https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51203

Peter Jones <jonesypeter at hotmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #8 from Peter Jones <jonesypeter at hotmail.com> 2012-07-27 19:50:24 PDT ---
Thanks for the update.  This does work, but it is a workaround rather that a
solution.

If you search on Google for OpenOffice  / LibreOffice Base Hyperlink Fields you
will see lots of people have wanted this for many years as an additional field
type.  I enclose a request which goes back as far as 2008:

http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=3792

People want to move their databases and get rid of Microsoft software on their
machines, but modern day databases need an easy way of handling hyperlinks as
field types.

For example, I have a database for my online banking in access, and for each
institution I have:

ID
Bank Name
Bank Address
Telephone
Website Address

It just makes life easier.  Please see below for the Access field types.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/access-help/field-data-types-available-in-access-mdb-HP005238518.aspx

Sorry if this sounds like a rant (It is not supposed to), I just spend much of
my time trying to convert people to Open Source, and regardless of if we like
it or not, we have to compete with Microsoft Office.  It seems that Base is
always the last product to get the updates.

Best wishes and I really do appreciate the work the Libre Office team are
doing.

Peter Jones

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