Hi all, Starting from a thread on the developer's list[2] I decided to come here trying to bring together users and experts.
[2] http://www.mail-archive.com/libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org/msg10456.html I examined Oracle Report Builder (was Sun Report Builder those days) while realizing my longterm project[1]. I stopped even thinking of it's use after some minutes, because I noticed it beeing horrible crap, unusable for my purposes. If the code is like it's appearance for use, then we should think of sheduling it's death for LibO4.0 creating a replacement more flexible, suitable and finally: generating fun while using :o)). I examined the capabilities of writer and found many of the requirements for report generation already present there. So I'd propose to have a look by all interested on this topic, whether it is feasible to create a report generating tool based on writer (or calc?) extention(s) or template(s). If some capabilities are missing, we could come back to the developers with a feature request in bugzilla to offer one more area for development crativity going along with clear specifications. :o)) =============== [1] Longterm Project: - Print all my adress data in 3 columns per page, - only printing values not empty, - printing from first to last record filling pages completely to save paper sheets putting in my bag. Realizing this was some mouse clicks in Lotus Approach, which I stopped using 2002 while migrating my whole workspace to linux continueing with OOo. Since then I'm without recent printed adress book for outside use. :o)) =============== Anyone interested in this task. Gruß/regards -- Friedrich Libreoffice-Box http://libreofficebox.org/ LibreOffice and more on CD/DVD images -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to projects+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/projects/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted