Hello Dan, > First, I apologize if this email is directed to the wrong place or people.
no, you're at the right place here :) - welcome! > I'm working with the pre-2.0 beta version of the database. Older than m79? How ... adventurous :) > What can anyone do to speed up or help with the database reporting side of > the the project. I'm pretty good with Crystal Reports, but I'm not a > programmer. Has anyone looked into getting a "widget" written for Crystal > Reports that would allow it to read the OOo database files? I don't know enough about Crystal's architecture here, so I cannot judge what it would take to write a "widget" for it. AFAIK, nobody ventured into this so far. I suppose the main problem here would be that OOo database files not necessarily contain the actual data. Instead, they refer to the data. So, even if the widget would read the OOo database files, it still would need a mechanism to access the actual data. This might turn out difficult, since it either means using (parts of) OOo itself, or to re-implement the basic data-access functionality of OOo Base. > Could the mailmerge code of Writer be expanded or changed to allow > database reporting? Hardly, IMO. To me it sounds as if there are so few commonalities between mail marge and reporting (except that for both, the source is some tabular database data), that adding reporting to mail merge seems equally expensive as doing reporting from scratch. Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/staroffice - - OpenOffice.org Database http://dba.openoffice.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
