Kerux Database
Help for new developments

The Kerux sermon illustration Database project has always been conducted in the spirit of the Open Source movement. We offer quality software for anyone to use, for free, and many improvements have been offered to us by others, also for free. The complex programming contained in the Access and SID versions have all been contributed by others.

Along those lines, here are some improvements I would like to see but can't figure out how to do. (I am a just preacher, not a programmer.) If you have some expertise in these areas, why not help us out?

1. A version of the database for Linux users. There have been Open Source databases for this platform, so surely someone can figure out how to make our SID program Linux-compatible. UPDATE - here is a solution one user says works very well.

2. A version of the database for Mac users. I hear from pastors who use Macs and must rely on emulation programs to run the database. Apparently this leaves something to be desired. Can someone figure out how to make our database compatible with Apple software? [Check out Tim's suggestions here]

3. An improved version of the MS Access database. A long-time feature in the Access program is the ability to have memo fields with RTF (Rich Text Field) features. This is really cool for pastors - you can drop a formatted Word document into the database and all the formatting like fonts and text color and underlines is preserved. Here is the beta version. Note that those who use older versions of Access have to install the Microsoft ActiveX RTF feature for this to work. There are some technical issues right now:

When you navigate from one record to another, if a record has no RTF formatting, it acquires the formatting of the previous record. In other words, if the first word in one record is blue and underlined, the next record will be all blue and all underlined. How can this be stopped?

How can the RTF text be sent to the Windows Clipboard with all the formatting intact? The Accumulate/Clip feature in Access reduces it to ASCII text with all those formatting tags.

4. I have not added sermons to my online sermon site for some time now. I would like to put them all there, but I want to incorporate a new feature -- a search engine that deals with keywords, much like my help-file sermon archive. Does anyone have any suggestions in this area? I tried learning mySQL but it was very difficult and seems rather primitive. Are there any ready-made database programs that work on a website?

5. Feedback on problems with the database are always appreciated but pretty rare. It is not that there are no problems out there because I have caught a few that have been in the online versions for months with no comment. If anything doesn't work in a database, or not do what you expected, please contact me.

If you can help in any of these areas, please contact Rev. David Holwick at dholwick@gmail.com.

January 24, 2008

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Kerux Database Help for new developments

Kerux Database
Help for new developments