Re: Antw: Re: Table in writer report

On 2/22/2010 9:58 AM, B Egidio wrote:
> Hello Drew,
>
>
> Also I cannot see yet, how I can use table relationships.
> Do I need to create a query for everything I need
> and then use Report Groups?

Yes - that is the norm for report writers.

>
> Also I cannot see how to create a table with border lines
> and styles etc.

Support for Styles in Report Builder has been mentioned but
I have no information on if or when.


>I think writer has much better features
> for formatting and displaying data - if only I could create
> detail tables except by using the forms table control.

Sure if you want to handle a lot of the housekeeping for reports.

Using a word processor for a report writer is a very old
practice.

>
> Did I miss something here?

No

The only thing we are missing is for someone to offer that
example I asked about.

What if we took one of the Writer or Calc templates,
available from the template repository and converted
it to a Report Builder template - that would be a good
example would it not?

Drew