Re: Problems in creating report

Hi Bill,

> I downloaded OOo 2.0 release candidate today. Base crashed four times 
> when I tried to create a report in a simple database created from an 
> Excel file. I sent an error report to Sun after the first and fourth 
> crash.

If you used an email address when reporting the crashs (did you?), I
might be able to look up your reports, and see if they tell anything
about possible reasons. In general - well, I did enought reports myself,
without crashing, so I suppose something is special on how you did it,
or in your environment, or something like this.

> I was able to create a grouped report one time, but each time the 
> grouped field changed the report started a new page.

Strange. Do you have sample data, and sample settings for the wizard,
for this?

> In addition it is extremely difficult to edit a report. I could change 
> the column width but that's about it. I couldn't find a way to search 
> for a manual page break and remove it to get the report the way I wanted 
> it. Help file is sparse here.

Ehm - yes. Actually, editing a report is - very unfortunately - not
really supported currently :(

> I was able to create a query but the query results did not carry over 
> the formatting from my table. I formatted one column as currency in my 
> table but it shows up as just a number in the query results. Is this by 
> design?

I agree that it's expectation conformant that the column in the report
has the same formatting as in the underlying query/table, so this now is
issue 55179.

> Base appears to be somewhat more stable than earlier releases but it 
> looks like there's quite a bit of work still ahead.

Ehm - yes.

Ciao
Frank

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