[resent] Re: [libreoffice-users] report builder query - how to suppress output.

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On 28/08/18 14:12, Robert Großkopf wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> > I can do a simple-minded report using report builder, which looks at the
> > moment to fulfil the need, except for one problem. When a database field
> > is empty (eg, no email or no 2nd address line), is there any way of
> > completely suppressing that line of output? I don't want pointless blank
> > lines appearing.
>
> You could only suppress the output for a complete section of the report.
> So the whole data of one row could be suppressed, not a "row of fields"
> in the section "Details".

Thanks for the reply.

I'm still 'all at sea', I'm afraid. I can't for the life of me see how 
to create a new section, never mind how to make it disappear conditionally.

The German translation you mention seems to be roughly what I've already 
seen; I've not found it helpful, I'm afraid.

Judging by the lack of other responses to my query, this must be a 
somewhat obscure part of LO. I think perhaps I'd better stick with my 
existing perl script I've been using to generate ODF documents from a 
spreadsheet -- seems easier to cut perl code than understand Report 
Builder. :-( :-(



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Mike Scott
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Harlow Essex England
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