Re: [gnome-db] Mergeant + FileMaker

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 14:38, Daniel Tourde wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is there some plan to give to Mergeant the possibility to import 
> FileMaker files and convert them to a specific database (PostgreSQL or 
> MySQL)?
>
there's no plan, but it's just a matter of somebody writing a provider
for it. This will automatically work in Mergeant (and all libgda-based
applications).

> Will Mergeant be able to import data stored in a spreadsheet file? 
> (Excel, Gnumeric, OpenOffice ...)
> 
you can import into Gnumeric via libgda so far. About OpenOffice, it
might be a nice addition to add a libgda plugin to OO, and be able to
import data from databases.

> I found a short article on the web (Michelle Muttain, I think, was the 
> name of the author) explaining how to import part of the FileMaker files 
> into PostgreSQL. Does anyone have any experience of this kind of procedures?
> 
not me, sorry :-(

cheers