Re: Problems in creating report

Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote:
> 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
> 
Yes, Frank, I used my email address in reporting the problem(twice). I 
note that two other posters report the same problem with a grouped 
report requiring new pages when the group field changes with no apparent 
way to change this.

I'll stop trying to create reports until I get the production release of 
version 2, which I hope will be by the end of the year.

Does the latest version of StarOffice handle database reports any better?

Bill