On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 19:56 -0400, Chad Neeper wrote:
I'm investigating the feasibility of using LO Base again after a
My first roadblock to printing the reports I need is that I can't seem
to find a way to make a memo or text field with a variable height. I
have several fields that contain anywhere from a few to hundreds of
characters spanning several lines. If I'm forced to create a field in
the report that is big enough to display all of the largest entries,
I'll be needlessly blowing through reams of paper. I'm sure there must
be a way to create a variable height field which will grow to fit the
data that needs to be displayed and I'm just not finding it.
On 5/25/2011 1:53 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
I'm not sure how this works through the LO Base user interface, but I have some
clues from the ODF 1.2 Committee Specification 01 on what to look for.
The only structure I'm aware of that allows variable height (other than the text flow
of a document itself) is the<draw:text-box> element. You can specify a
minimum height and a maximum height. There must be a set maximum if there is a
minimum (there's no setting that establishes no maximum).
The<draw:text-box> must be within a<draw:frame> in your report (which is essentially a
LibreOffice Writer document embedded in the Base). The<draw:text-box> can contain a paragraph
that has some content derived via a<text:database-display> element.
The two questions I can't answer, not using Base myself, are (1) what of the
above is supported in the LibreOffice Base implementation and (2) if it is
supported, what are the UI ceremonies to exploit the provisions in the design
of a report presentation.
I see Object Resizing as a formatting option in the Oracle Report Builder, but
I have not found something for which those provisions are not greyed out.
I've been Googling pretty extensively and as best I can determine, it
looks like this feature has been documented and requested, but has not
yet been implemented in Oracle Report Builder.
http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77605
http://osdir.com/ml/openoffice.dba.user/2007-11/msg00055.html
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=93373
It also looks like, while S/ORB has improved considerably, it's still
not quite robust enough for what I need. *sigh*
So close! Maybe I'll check back in a couple of major revs!
Thanks, all.
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