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From: "Tom Pajak" <>
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] data export
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:32:24 -0400
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Wim,

I have only recently started to experiment with OpenOffice so I do not know
much about it at this time. I have been unable to figure out a way to get it
to open or connect to a Genbox database.
Any suggestion as to the proper way to do that?

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: [mailto:] On
Behalf Of wim prange
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 3:54 AM
To: ;
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] data export

Hi Tom,

You can open a Genbox database in Access (directly as an Access-database) or
by establishing a connection and making queries in Excel or Access (you can
also use the search in Genbox: on the properties-tab is a "view SQL..."
button, you can copy and paste that in any SQL builder). You can use
StarOffice/OpenOffice for that as well. I'm sure other packages that can
establish dataconnections with Access-databases can do the same.

Bill has released the datastructure of the database so you will be able to
link the tables for queries. The link to that document is
http://www.genbox.com/technical/datastructure365.doc

Wim


-----Original Message-----
From: [mailto:] On
Behalf Of Tom Pajak
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 11:26 PM
To:
Subject: [GENBOX] data export

What is the simplest method to export selected data to a file which can be
used in a spreadsheet? There are often situations in which I would like to
do analysis or report setup that I cannot do within Genbox and could be
readily addressed outside its confines. Additionally, although the
possibility of adding various reporting capabilities to the package might be
obvious, sometimes I wonder if it would not be better to keep Genbox more
straight forward and focused on what it does best. Then generate very
specialized analysis and reports separately.

Alternatively, is there a way to access the Genbox database via another
method, perhaps on of the accepted and often used database packages?

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