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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Dec 23, 2017 at 05:42 PM
I just took another look at Ninox. I could be wrong, but it seems there is no convenient way to print mailing labels. When you want to print, it looks as if it automatically creates a PDF that opens in Preview for printing. I couldn’t find any reference to mailing labels in the documentation. All you Ninox users, am I missing something?
Steve Z.
Posted by Amontillado
Dec 24, 2017 at 04:01 PM
I bought Ninox a year or two ago, and initially thought it would be of some help, and there are things it can tell you a spreadsheet can’t. I loaded property taxes for our county into a Ninox table from a CSV file, which is more than you can do with Excel - for our backwoods county, population 26,000, there are over half a million different bits of taxable property. That’s more than Excel can load.
Ninox quickly showed me the total valuation for our county is $11 billion and $45 million a year is harvested in taxes.
Ninox breaks down when you want to do any manipulation not baked in to the application. For instance, I decided to add a join to a second table, but I can’t find a way to do that. At import-time, you are supposed to be able to define links between tables. You put a simple formula into a certain field, but I can’t find where that field is defined.
General DB looks more flexible in that regard, since it will work with SQLlite databases and allows for creating views with joins between tables. There’s a trial version, but the full fledged thing is just ten bucks. Looks worthy, and besides, the CRIMP acronym used here does not apply to me because I can stop any time I want.
In fact, I think I will right after grabbing a copy of General DB. Unless, of course, there is something I need after that.
For reference, http://portabledatabases.com/generaldbforthemac.html