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I've attempted to use Libreoffice Base as a replacement for Access for a very simple single user database a while back, as I didn't want to fork out for Access.
by account-5 4y ago
I've attempted to use Libreoffice Base as a replacement for Access for a very simple single user database a while back, as I didn't want to fork out for Access. I failed miserably, everything seemed hard to do compared to Access (I'm aware this might be somewhat down to familiarity). Unlike Access there seems to be little in the way of help online for Base. I couldn't get the GUI to populate a listbox from a query, and the GUI appears very limited; very bad experience. I think the GUI would be the last one I would use as a front end for anything, it seems designed in a way that necessitates Googling to do the similist of things, but like I said above returns next to nothing useful. Very frustrating.
- MonkeyClub 4y ago100% this. I really want LibreOffice Base to be usable as an Access replacement, but it seems that it’s simply there to tick off the box “database tool for the office suite”. So it implements the necessary features that this box would require, but the corners haven’t been rounded off. I’m sure people must be using it to various extents, but it definitely lacks the basic accessibility to its features that Access provides. I sort of posted the link to also check how other HNers may use it, and it seems that your experience matches mine: I’d love for it to be easier to use.
- petilon 4y agoYou can use https://airforms.com/ https://airforms.com/ as a replacement for Access, for the forms side of things. It doesn't have reporting though.