Hi all,
Drew Jensen escribió:
Ocke Janssen wrote:
Moin,
When you use charts in reports I would like to get any kind of
feedback, comments or even rants :-)
What work and what doesn't work? What should be better or is the
feature itself useless. (I don't hope so ;-)
So your opinion is asked for.
Best regards,
Ocke
PS: You need a OOo 3.0 and the newest SRB 1.0.5
(http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/reportdesign)
Howdy,
A quick comment or two....questions more then comments I suppose.
User defined functions as data points in charts, any plans to make this
possible?
Parameterized queries for chart result sets prompting for input. I saw
that there was an issue about this already and it was marked as fixed
(sorry can't find the issue number at the moment), anyway I GUESS that
fixed here means ...actually that is the question, what does "fixed"
mean here? ROFL...suppose I really need to find that issue number.
Fiddling with charts does cause me to think about another subject however:
A Base Datapilot or PivotTable function....I don;t like either term, but
it should communicate the idea, this really needs to be addressed IMO.
although charts in reports are a big step, what most users (at least
those I've talked to) want is (to switch from) a stand alone chart,
form, report, data-pilot-like representation of their data... just like
MS Access does.
IMHO following the MS Access way will be an error (I mean: switching
from one representation to the other by just a simple button - any of us
with some complex MS Access form surely had experience the way how MS
Access destroys hours of work by just switching from one representation
to the other). [I think that the same could be applied to other
most-wanted-feature: the more-than-a-datasource-per-ODB + the ability to
establish relationships between them - IMHO this is an aberration...but
that's another issue].
So I'd be happy with the following:
* stand alone charts, as an own database element (together with Tables,
Queries, Forms, Reports): a chart *inside* a report may be too much for
users who only want a chart representation of their data
* charts inside forms: now they are impossible (via programming, one can
insert a chart in a form, but it will only work in design view: when the
form is alive, the embedded object is deactivated)
* a data-pilot-like representation of the data: now these can be
achieved via OOo Calc, but again this is too much work for some kind of
users
Any way "charts in reports" is a nice and useful feature, and Ocke did a
great job, thanks for that!
Regards
Ariel.
--
Ariel Constenla-Haile
La Plata, Argentina
"Aus der Kriegsschule des Lebens
- Was mich nicht umbringt,
macht mich härter."
Nietzsche Götzendämmerung, Sprüche und Pfeile, 8.
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