Hi Andrew,

> OK, that would also mean then that only the default parameter replacement
> dialog is available for the user at runtime.
> 
> When I was looking at the Pentaho documentation and source code I saw that
> there was support a parameter data source. As best as I could tell this
> allowed any type of data the report designer ( the user creating the report
> definition)  wanted to pass in to be so passed in to the engine. Is that
> feature removed from the OO.o implementation?

We didn't remove anything ...

For the Pentaho engine, the data source is simply a set of homogenous
rows. Parameters - the things known as parameters on OOo side - are
translated into additional columns in this row set, so the difference
between fields and columns completely vanishs, as far as the engine is
concerned.

You still have all the options you want to fill the parameters on OOo
side (though, admittedly, I am not completely sure at the moment
where/how report API provides you with access to the relevant objects).


Ciao
Frank

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