Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Help with Base report

On Wed, 2014-01-22 at 17:50 +0100, Alex Thurgood wrote:
> On 22/01/2014 16:40, Harvey Nimmo wrote:
>
> Hi Harvey,
>
>
> > I am fetching records from a query and putting them in various text
> > boxes in the 'detail' section of a report. Two fields of each record
> > may, however, contain more text than fit into the corresponding text box
> > and would need to be printed on more than one line. Unfortunately, I do
> > not know how to the change the text box height dynamically to allow the
> > full text of the record field to be displayed. Obviously, if that were
> > somehow possible, also the height of the 'detail' section would have to
> > be increased for that record (and both would have to be reset for the
> > next record). The height of a text box (in the properties table) is
> > 'fixed' and I can find no attribute that would make a text box
> > 'expandable' as needed for the above.  Where can I do that?
>
> Ah, that rings a bell as an oft requested feature improvement. You might
> want to wade through LO's bugzilla to see if someone hasn't already
> registered this - it may well even have come up on this mailing list before.
>
> At present, there is no way that I know of to do what you want, other
> than making your text fields sufficiently dimensioned when creating yur
> report to take account of the odd record or two that exceeds the single
> line.
>
> Alex

Well, it doesn't sound like a bug, but rather a feature that may or may not be supported.
I had the thought I might try a macro, but I need help for that and
pointing in the right direction. 

Harvey




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