Hi Dan,
Well, I don't doubt I confused you, apparently I confused myself there
also, as I made a few misstatements there regarding Designer.
First - there are two different tools that I referred to.
Report Wizard is that functionality available if the user does not have
Report Designer installed. It has nothing to do with the wizard dialog
added to the designer.
I think everything I said regarding that Wizard is accurate.
When you install Report Designer you no longer have direct access via
the GUI to that functionality - though you can still execute dynamic
reports created with the old wizard, and of course you can always open
static reports no matter what.
With LO coming with Report Designer pre-installed and in fact making it
difficult to remove it or even disable it I doubt new users even know of
the Report Wizard code lurking in the Base core package.
Report Designer part I was wrong - the wizard dialog did bring back the
idea of dynamic and static report designation.
Dynamic reports are just Report Definitions - they do not contain any of
the actual data from a report run - only the report definition is saved.
When you create a static report you are saving only the realized
document created by executing a report definition - and the file does
not contain the actual definition of how the report is generated. I
don't think, I'll double check by diving into the xml of one to be sure.
When you edit a static report you are simply editing a standard
document, you can adjust layout of the data but not the definition of
what generated that data.
So - using the Report Designer wizard function:
If you select a Static report - the definition is used to generate a
report document and this document is saved into the ODB file.
If you select a Dynamic report - the report definition is saved to the
ODB file and the report document is created as a stand alone ODT file.
You can see it in action quite easily - just use the Report Designer
wizard dialog and select 'Dynamic' and 'Create report now' and you will
see that you actually create two items, the saved definition and the
rendered document in a separate window.
Anyway - at the moment I'm on a machine with LibO 3.4.4 and there are
few issues with report builder here - I'll try this all later tonight on
OO.o and LibO 3.5 just to be sure I'm not still taking you down the
wrong path.
Thanks
//drew