On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 16:21 -0400, Colin J. Williams wrote: > Brian E. Blandford wrote: > > Dan Lewis wrote: > > > >> On Monday 05 September 2005 10:19 am, Brian E. Blandford wrote: > >> > >> > >>> I'm late getting to experimenting with 2.0, so apologies if this > >>> query has been answered before, and I haven't noticed. > >>> > >>> I want to generate a report from calc, but I can't see how to do it. > >>> In 1.1 there is a report auto pilot in the file menu, but not in 2.0. > >>> The task I'm trying to do is to select and print in my report those > >>> cells containing a particular name amongst others. At the moment, I > >>> am having to resort to using the "find all" button, then laboriously > >>> copying and pasting the results. > >>> > >>> I've tried the help file and the google search in OOo's tutorial > >>> pages without finding what I'm sure is a very simple answer. > >>> > >>> Brian B. > >>> > >> > >> > >> Have you tried to register the Calc file as a database and then > >> create the report from the database? > >> > >> Dan > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > >> > >> > > It doesn't seem possible to do that: only data files can be registered > > as databases as far as I can see. > > > > I've only just realised that I raised the same issue when 1.9 first came > > out. (Having gone back to 1.4 afterwards, I forgot about it) > > The replies to that previous query confirmed that indeed reports had > > been dropped from writer and calc, and I was referred to > > http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=44411. However, on > > re-visiting that, I see the issue is closed, having been declared > > 'invalid'. > > > > Am I the only one who thinks that is a real loss?
Obviously not as I opened the issue in March. However, I have seen since that even having to go via Base wizard is not that big a deal. Awkward and not particularly intuitive but doable. > > > > Brian B. > > > I suspect that it's a loss but I haven't the experience with version 1 > to assert that. > > Colin W. Try the 1.1.x report generator. I is quite nice. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
