On 5/16/19 11:12 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
Den tors 16 maj 2019 kl 00:22 skrev Girvin Herr :
Greetings,
I am using LibreOffice 5.3.4.2 on Slackware Linux 14.2 (K4.4.75).
I have a database with a text field which may or may not be null. What I
want to do is to prefix a dash "-" before the
Hi Girvin,
the Report-Builder should better get this information from the view,
which is datasource of the report. All what could be done through SQL
before submitting the data to the report will work faster (and mostly
better).
You have to write in SQL
SELECT '-'||"text" FROM "table"
This will
Den tors 16 maj 2019 kl 00:22 skrev Girvin Herr :
> Greetings,
>
> I am using LibreOffice 5.3.4.2 on Slackware Linux 14.2 (K4.4.75).
>
> I have a database with a text field which may or may not be null. What I
> want to do is to prefix a dash "-" before the text if the text field is
> not null.
Remy,
Greetings.
I tried your suggestion, but it didn't work as expected. LO Report
Builder did replace "[<>""]-@" with
"[<>0]-@;General", similar to what you experienced. However, the result
is strange and almost indeterminate. Sometimes if the text field is
alpha-numeric, the result is "-"
Greetings,
I tried this in calc (which I am assuming you are using), and it seems
to work for what you describe:
[<>""]-@
The interesting thing is that calc changed it afterwards to
[<>0]-@;Standard
but it still seems to work.
I hope this helps.
Rémy.
Le mercredi 15 mai 2019 à 15:17 -0700,
Greetings,
I am using LibreOffice 5.3.4.2 on Slackware Linux 14.2 (K4.4.75).
I have a database with a text field which may or may not be null. What I
want to do is to prefix a dash "-" before the text if the text field is
not null. At first, I tried this format:
;;;"-"@
Somewhere, not by
