Re: [libreoffice-users] [SOLVED?] Problem with text formatting in Report.

2019-05-16 Thread Girvin Herr
Greetings, I think I have a solution. I did some research on the Pentaho report generator that is used in the LO Base Report Generator with emphasis on their formula syntax. The following formula placed in the report field's properties "Data" tab in "Data field..." seems to do what I need:

Re: [libreoffice-users] No corresponding column type could be found for column 'ID'.

2019-05-16 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky
Hello Robert See below. Hello Robert See below. On 5/16/2019 2:53 PM, Robert Großkopf wrote: Hi Paul, When I want to append a Table from database one to database two, I get the message "No corresponding column type could be found for column 'ID'." The field "ID" from the Firebird-table

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with text formatting in Report.

2019-05-16 Thread Girvin Herr
On 5/16/19 11:12 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Den tors 16 maj 2019 kl 00:22 skrev Girvin Herr : Greetings, I am using LibreOffice 5.3.4.2 on Slackware Linux 14.2 (K4.4.75). I have a database with a text field which may or may not be null. What I want to do is to prefix a dash "-" before the

Re: [libreoffice-users] No corresponding column type could be found for column 'ID'.

2019-05-16 Thread Robert Großkopf
Hi Paul, > > When I want to append a Table from database one to database two, I get > the message "No corresponding column type could be found for column > 'ID'." The field "ID" from the Firebird-table must be autovalue. I you will import the table, which all contains text-fields, the wizard

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with text formatting in Report.

2019-05-16 Thread Robert Großkopf
Hi Girvin, the Report-Builder should better get this information from the view, which is datasource of the report. All what could be done through SQL before submitting the data to the report will work faster (and mostly better). You have to write in SQL SELECT '-'||"text" FROM "table" This will

[libreoffice-users] No corresponding column type could be found for column 'ID'.

2019-05-16 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky
Windows 7 64 bit, Version: 6.2.3.2 (x64) I have two databases. Both have "ID" defined as the first field in the databases. The first database is an import of text files that is unregistered. I believe it is Firebird, but do not know how to confirm this. The header to the text file has "ID"

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with text formatting in Report.

2019-05-16 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den tors 16 maj 2019 kl 00:22 skrev Girvin Herr : > Greetings, > > I am using LibreOffice 5.3.4.2 on Slackware Linux 14.2 (K4.4.75). > > I have a database with a text field which may or may not be null. What I > want to do is to prefix a dash "-" before the text if the text field is > not null.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with text formatting in Report.

2019-05-16 Thread Girvin Herr
Remy, Greetings. I tried your suggestion, but it didn't work as expected. LO Report Builder did replace "[<>""]-@" with "[<>0]-@;General", similar to what you experienced. However, the result is strange and almost indeterminate. Sometimes if the text field is alpha-numeric, the result is "-"

Re: [libreoffice-users] Cannot get summed values in a Base report

2019-05-16 Thread Robert Großkopf
Hi Girvin, > > However, when I try these parameters in the new report, when I select > "Accumulation" in the Function field, it changes "Data Field" to > "[AccumulationCostReport]" and the Function and Scope fields go blank. Seems to be the right function. You could see the content of the