Re: [libreoffice-users] Triggering reports from html files

Thanks for the reply, Dan,

It's not that I want the report to be displayed in an html file, rather,
I'd like to be able to make an href call to open a dynamic report to
display in an .odt file.

Any thoughts, now that I've clarified?

Beth

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Dan Lewis <elderdanlewis@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 10:00 -0800, blesko wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I have developed an application using libreoffice base.  I navigate to
> all
> > the forms from an html5 document. Here's my problem:
> >
> > I've created some reports using report builder, but cannot trigger the
> > generation of a dynamic report from the html file. All my research
> points to
> > the impossibility of externally accessing the dynamic reports, but I am
> > hoping it is lack of knowledge that is turning up these research results.
> > Can anyone enlighten me on this?
> >
> > I resorted to using forms to produce a dynamic data grid. This could
> work,
> > but only if its possible to make it more presentable, instead of looking
> > like a table.
> >
> > My whole project hinges on getting presentable dynamic reports to work.
> >
> > Can someone point me in the right direction?
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > Beth
> >
> > --
>
>      Base reports are either text documents or spreadsheets. But you
> might be able to use Writer to create an HTML document with the
> formating you want. Using the Data Source window (use the F4 key to open
> it), you should be able to drag the fields from this window down to
> where you want the fields to be in the HTML document. You may have to
> modify the HTML in the document. I've not tried this, but it is a
> possibility.
>
> --Dan
>
>
>
>
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