Dan Lewis wrote:
On Thursday 08 September 2005 11:38 am, Colin J. Williams wrote:
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
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
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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.
But I'm developing a document using 1.9.125.
Colin W.
Have you read the Section of accessing spreadsheets in the Getting
Started with Base Chapter of the Getting Started Guide? It explains how
to create a database as the front end of your Calc file. Having done
that, you should be able to create your reports. Look for Chapter 10 in
the Getting Started Guide in this web page:
http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/index.html
Dan
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Thanks - that's pointing me in the right direction. Be good if the
instructions in the manual could be incorporated into the Calc help file.
Brian B.
