Changing from Windows Xp to Ubuntu

[Peter Goggin]

I have successfully transferred Thunderbird and various excel 
spreadsheets and word documents from XP windows on one laptop to Ubuntu 
on another laptop. The MS documents all work fine with LibreOffice..

I have tried converting the MS Access data base to LibreOffice Base. I 
installed LibreOffice on the XP machine and then opened the MS Access 
data base. I saved and then reopened the native LibreBase data base . I 
found the following:
1 All tables transferred correctly
2. All views (there are about 20 used in the application ) transferred 
as tables (at least they sit in the tables area)
3. While LibreBase appears to have a gui front end built in none of the 
forms transferred across.

I can probably recreate the forms in LibreBase but I cannot find any 
information on creating  a menu form which allows navigation around the 
data base. I looked in the documentation for LibreBase but could not 
find any information. Is it possible to create such forms?

Is it possible to transfer Access views to LibreBase views?

Many years ago while I was working as a database manager on Oracle I 
created a web based application using Mysql, Php and Html. It is so long 
ago that I have forgotten some of the details, but the system ran on Red 
hat Linux and could be accessed via a normal web browser. I believe that 
I used Apache as a local server.  Is this approach still viable?  I 
could not find Apache in the software library so I wondered if it was 
still available.

Thanks for your help.

Regards

Peter Goggin














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