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| Thread ID: 54090 | 2005-02-03 22:41:00 | building a searchable database cd | anek dotal (7108) | Press F1 |
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| 321277 | 2005-02-03 22:41:00 | I have been asked to create cd's of records for a genealogy group (school records, births deaths etc). Can anyone recommend software that can create a searchable database on a cd, that does not need any special installed software on the computer to read it? Free would be ideal, but suggest anything. Thanks. | anek dotal (7108) | ||
| 321278 | 2005-02-04 00:35:00 | How about something like this: sqllitebrowser (sourceforge.net) Otherwise, if you want to do some programming (say with Delphi), then you can create standalone programs with database components built-in. |
gibler (49) | ||
| 321279 | 2005-02-04 03:41:00 | It's interesting, but doesn't seem to do what I'm after... I need to be able to put a finished CD into any computer and view/search records, without any external programs. I've seen finished disc's, but don't yet know how to create them And I haven't any programming (apart from a few websites), so that's not really a viable option at this time. Thanks anyway though. |
anek dotal (7108) | ||
| 321280 | 2005-02-04 03:54:00 | I have been asked to create cd's of records for a genealogy group (school records, births deaths etc). Can anyone recommend software that can create a searchable database on a cd, that does not need any special installed software on the computer to read it? Free would be ideal, but suggest anything. Thanks. Being as you can create a web site then one solution is to put the records into HTML and build a web site on the CD. Most computers have a browser installed so use that to browse the CD. Maybe not ideal but probably you could do it. |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 321281 | 2005-02-04 04:00:00 | And I haven't any programming (apart from a few websites), so that's not really a viable option at this time. Thanks anyway though.Depending on your experience with websites, could you write a search script using Javascript/XML? This could be be something like the APC cover CD index search, and you could integrate it into a website frontend for whatever else is on the disk. Failing that, it might also be worth googling for a js applet that'll do the job. Bletch |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 321282 | 2005-02-04 04:06:00 | It's a very difficult problem. You need to provide somthing which will run on, at least, Windows 98, 98SE, ME, W2000, and the other one which I can't remember the name of.;) Ideally, you should cater for the Macintosh people (with two sorts of OS) , and even Linux. You can't assume that "everyone" has MS Office, or even MS Works. You could provide Open Office on the Cd, but you can't expect people to install software that big, which might also try to "grab" various types of file and spoil their system setup. About the only things which are OS independent would be HTTP web pages, or plain text. Plain text can be searched with just about any text editor or word processor, but that isn't the nicest user interface. :( A web site on a CD is quite easy to do, but the searching is a problem. I wonder if the Google search would do it. (I wonder where the index it produces is kept. It refused to work on my non-connected computer, so it requires Internet acces to make the index. I can't imagine them not storing things on their systems. ;) Perhaps an index done on a CD web site would work anywhere it is used. Or not. :( |
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