On 8/7/19 1:38 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On 8/7/19 11:57 AM, stan wrote:
>> I am in the process of defining an application for a very small company
>> that uses Postgresql for the backend DB. This DB will eventually run
>> on a
>> hosted machine. As you imagine all of the employees have Windows
>> machines
>> for their normal work asks. Frankly I am not very strong on Windows.
>> so I
>> am wondering what the consensus is for creating forms and reports?
>>
>> My first though is Libre Office as that is cross platform, and i can
>> test
>> on my development Linux machine. However, i am getting a bit of
>> push-back
>> from the user as he is having issues with installing Libre Office on his
>> computer. he says it does not play well with MS Office. Also we seem
>> to be
>> having some bugs with Libre Office Base in early development.
>
> Yeah, I gave up on Base awhile back due to its flaky performance.
>
>>
>> What is the community wisdom here?
>>
>
> What I have done is gone the Web route. In my case using Django as the
> framework/backend and the users browsers as the clients. That greatly
> simplifies keeping up with changes on the client end. There is still a
> need to deal with cross browser issues, but that is less of a chore.
> As Igor's post said it comes down to what you are comfortable with.
>
>
>
And if you choose to go down the web route, and you're not intimately
familiar with at least one of the strands, get help immediately. There
is much, much magic involved.