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BeeBase, a programmable relational database with graphical user interface

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Re: BeeBase, a programmable relational database with graphical user interface

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Guess you also didn’t see a site for a long time where you have to press buttons to do things instead of just scroll down? Not meant to be snarky: I got the same comment on our saas products. Guess people want ’sales sites’ to be one pagers; I don’t exactly know why. Personally I don’t see the difference between scrolling down or pressing buttons but he.

I just shared my opinion, we disagree. I'm okay with this. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

OP hasn't replied to you AFAICS

Re: BeeBase, a programmable relational database with graphical user interface

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Apparently saved project created with BeeBase is basically a sqlite DB, that you can open with any sqlite browser. So i think a lot of value could come from standardised sqlite format, upon which you could build different UI's to manipulate the content of said sqlite DB and then provide a app that would build client UI based on content of same sqlite file.

Re: BeeBase, a programmable relational database with graphical user interface

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Ok so first feedback. Launched app. Went to create a new table. Entered name : "users". Got error "Invalid name". Got confused, whats illegal about the name. After some time figured out that name must start with UPPER case latter. This could have been the error message instead of generic "Invalid name".

It's explained on page 8 of the manual, in the tutorial section.

Re: BeeBase, a programmable relational database with graphical user interface

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Apparently saved project created with BeeBase is basically a sqlite DB, that you can open with any sqlite browser. So i think a lot of value could come from standardised sqlite format, upon which you could build different UI's to manipulate the content of said sqlite DB and then provide a app that would build client UI based on content of same sqlite file.

You can export to SQLite3, but not import it back in again.

Re: BeeBase, a programmable relational database with graphical user interface

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Ok so first feedback. Launched app. Went to create a new table. Entered name : "users". Got error "Invalid name". Got confused, whats illegal about the name. After some time figured out that name must start with UPPER case latter. This could have been the error message instead of generic "Invalid name".

It's explained on page 8 of the manual, in the tutorial section.

Exactly, it's a bad error message if you need to read 8 pages of tutorial to get that basic feedback.

Re: BeeBase, a programmable relational database with graphical user interface

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It's explained on page 8 of the manual, in the tutorial section.

Exactly, it's a bad error message if you need to read 8 pages of tutorial to get that basic feedback.

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Re: BeeBase, a programmable relational database with graphical user interface

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Ok so first feedback. Launched app. Went to create a new table. Entered name : "users". Got error "Invalid name". Got confused, whats illegal about the name. After some time figured out that name must start with UPPER case latter. This could have been the error message instead of generic "Invalid name".

It's explained on page 8 of the manual, in the tutorial section.

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Re: BeeBase, a programmable relational database with graphical user interface

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Exactly, it's a bad error message if you need to read 8 pages of tutorial to get that basic feedback.

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not sure if you are trolling or serious here but thats a bad user experience and also very condescending

Re: BeeBase, a programmable relational database with graphical user interface

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I don't understand —screenshots and a feature list are among the first few links at the top.

guess I missed it, im used to scrolling and seeing screenshots and features on splash page. I must admit I wasn't very interested in this piece of software to begin with.
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