I'll just jump into the questions, if you don't mind.
Functions: [ ....... long description of what I tried deleted for you convenience.......... ] OK, I give up - how do you reference a data column in a function. For example creating an aggregate value for a group? I have read ( good scan anyway ) through the Pentaho documentation regarding functions, is OOo's designer going to use the same approach? New question. API for new document type? I have tried inspecting the report object to no avail. Object Inspector doesn't work with any of the 2.3 builds. I assume the IDL documents are not up to date on this yet, I have looked and there seems to be nothing about these reports specifically. Xray does work. Looking at the ReportDefintion I can find nothing different using the com.sun.star.sdb.DocumentDefinition service. In other words I can't really see how to know it is a designer report versus a wizard report or a form. Reading the propertyset doesn't seem to help me. If I use Xray to look at the report after it has opened ( run ) I am again stumped. Nothing, not even in the forms property of the drawpage property. What will be exposed via an API of the report structure? Specifically, I want to be able to set parameters in the report prior to the run - what is envisioned? Yes, I can attach the report to a query, and I can manipulate the query definition prior to running the report - that works just fine, but will there be more? I figure it is just my lack of skills...after all Ocke says I should be able to figure this all out without any documentation... *wink*... [ you had to know when you said "Currently there exists no documentation, so you have to find the way by yourself. But that should always be possible, otherwise the GUI is wrong and we must fix it. :-)" in the Blog was gonna come back to get you. ] New Questions: Report Title? ------------------- wow ------------------------------ I just realized I can generate a spread sheet... Enough questions for now...I have new things to learn and test. Drew
