[libreoffice-users] Re: Possible to write reports with relationship data?
Le 15/05/13 05:42, David Karr a écrit : Hi David, If I have a main entity, and I have two one-to-many relationships to other tables (FK links from the other tables to the main table), is there any way to generate a report with the main table data, and the data for the other relationships also included (indented and formatted properly)? Perhaps I'm misunderstanding here, but surely using a Query or a View which pulls in the data from your 1-to-N tables, grouped as you want them, as the basis for your report, would suffice ? Alex -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Possible to write reports with relationship data?
Let me give some example background to see if this can work. Let's say we have an animals database, for someone maintaining an animal shelter. Each animal has a list of medical care events and also a list of adoptions (some animals return to the shelter). The medicalCareEvents and adoptions tables each have a FK to the animals table. What I'm envisioning is a report that lists the fields for the animal, followed by an indented section showing a row for each medical care event, and another indented section showing adoptions for each animal. A query could potentially use a join to create individual rows composed of data from multiple tables, but that is really only practical for 1-1 relationships, or possibly 1-verysmallinteger relationships. If you still think this can work, could you explain how this would be done? On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 2:27 AM, Alexander Thurgood alex.thurg...@gmail.com wrote: Le 15/05/13 05:42, David Karr a écrit : Hi David, If I have a main entity, and I have two one-to-many relationships to other tables (FK links from the other tables to the main table), is there any way to generate a report with the main table data, and the data for the other relationships also included (indented and formatted properly)? Perhaps I'm misunderstanding here, but surely using a Query or a View which pulls in the data from your 1-to-N tables, grouped as you want them, as the basis for your report, would suffice ? Alex -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Possible to write reports with relationship data?
Le 15/05/13 18:09, David Karr a écrit : Hi David, No, I haven't gotten into that yet. I assume I can do some sort of looping construct in writer that will allow me to step through rows in both the main table and the relationships tables? Can I use Java or Javascript to do that iteration? For iterative insertions of grouped data into a Writer document, the mailmerge tool is often (ab)used :-) as the tool does this automatically (well, it does, when it is working, which is LO version dependent ;-)). If you base your mailmerge on a query (e.g. via a join) that fetches all of your treatment entries for a given animal via the FK and orders them, e.g. by date, then that should work. What I haven't tried, is getting the results from two separate queries into one single Writer documents, but in theory, this should work too. I have been told, but again, not tried, that sections in documents can be used to hold different queries, but I'm not sure whether the mailmerge function would still work properly with this approach. Alex -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Possible to write reports with relationship data?
Le 15/05/13 18:09, David Karr a écrit : Me again. No, I haven't gotten into that yet. I assume I can do some sort of looping construct in writer that will allow me to step through rows in both the main table and the relationships tables? Can I use Java or Javascript to do that iteration? This might give you an idea of the current situation : http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=42t=36644p=168121hilit=two+queries+in+one+writer+document#p168121 Alex -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Possible to write reports with relationship data?
Le 15/05/13 18:09, David Karr a écrit : This too, might help you along : http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13t=10865p=51051hilit=two+queries+in+one+writer+document#p51051 As I mentioned in a previous response, I'm really not sure about whether you can insert two different query results at different places in a single Writer (or Calc) document. My previous attempts over the years all failed. Ultimately, you might get further by using pyuno to create and manipulate a Writer document, and insert the bits of data you want into it. Again, the documentation here on how to engage in such an exercise is sparse. Alex -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
