Microsoft access 2010

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Driftweed

Discussion Starter · Apr 6, 2014

Finally broke down & got a laptop...

Anyone got any pointers for this program? Seems like it has potential to link customers to jobs & jobs to customer specific "products"

Example: I bid an apartment complex interior repaint based on various floor plans. So each customer has roughly 4-8 specific "products" where the price is unique to that customer.

I would also like to link to what person worked on that individual product. This way I can click on the employees name & see a history of all jobs he ever did.

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Needles

· #30 · May 11, 2014

KennMacMoragh said:
I just looked at MySql, $2,000 for one year of use? I would find a different way to track who painted a house. Maybe stick with Access or even Excel might have a function to do that.

MySQL is open source and free. The enterprise version is how open source companies make their money.

Driftweed, Why not just use LibreOffice's Base program http://www.libreoffice.org/discover/base/ not only will if create a db it will also interface as a frontend with MySql and it forks. It will also access the rest of the LO suite.

I have never used base but LO suite is my goto for office programs.

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Needles

· #43 · May 12, 2014

smalpierre said:
Am I on the right track so far?

What platform do you want to run this on - desktop, web app, or mobile? Or as a combination of any / all of the above?

Python

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Needles

· #51 · May 12, 2014

smalpierre said:
Python is a scripting language, not a platform

Why Python? I know some people that like it. I tried it years ago but quickly determined that it just wasn't what I wanted.

I was just messing with you. :jester:

I took a interactive python course for game making last year. That is pretty much why I said it.

I know MySql can be programmed with python scripting. Using the MySQLdb module. I am not that talented though.

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Needles

· #55 · May 12, 2014

No issue with pointers they don't exist in python unless you are hybridizing with a C module. Use variables.

Python was easy to pick up. I pretty much quit learning C for py. Which I haven't used in a year. I need to relearn some things and the ways of py 3.0.

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Needles

· #58 · May 13, 2014

smalpierre said:
That IS the issue with pointers - their lack of existance. Pointers are the single most useful feature of an object oriented language. Some people say that without pointers, it is not really object oriented ...

I guess. I took a object oriented python course after doing a month or two of basic python at codeacademy. :thumbsup:

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