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

On 13/01/2012 06:42, Beth Lesko wrote:
> 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.
A report is a preformated .odt file who is on opening filed with 
information from your Database, i suppose you need a solution to "run" 
the report from in a Webapp ?
please give us a bit more info on how things happen.
You can use the api and "run" a report with "LoadFrom Url(.....)
Maybe you can start from viewing the code who is in a LO-extension named 
"reportrunner"
Hope it helps

Fernand
> 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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