SUN Report Builder

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General Info

A new official name exists: SUN Report Builder. See issue 78437

For further technical information, please read: Sun Report Builder and Planned Feature

The latest release is 1.2.0. It can be downloaded from: SUN Report Builder Extension.

User documentation can be found at SUN Report Builder Documentation.

The team can be contacted via the dev@dba.openoffice.org mailing list.

Release Info

   * 1.2.0: shrink sections, rearranged menu, modified grouping dialog
   * 1.2.0: data source name in controls, report wizard support image controls 
   * 1.1.0: formula editor and support of the ODF formula syntax
   * 1.1.0: meta data support like author and title
   * 1.1.0: support of charts
   * 1.1.0: report wizard
   * 1.0.6: report design loses its modification state when report is executed (93014)
   * 1.0.6: chart in generated report displays wrong values (93735)
   * 1.0.6: time values in generated reports are always displayed as if they were forenoon (93443)
   * 1.0.6: Running a report is not possible (error) (95414)
   * 1.0.5: Report Builder cannot be installed (93559)
   * 1.0.4: The creation of reports with grouping is working again.

Roadmap

News regarding the report designer can be found at GullFOSS.

The CWS page inside EIS can be found here.

Specifications can be found here.

Install Steps

  • start the office and open the extension manager (TOOLS/EXTENSION MANAGER)
  • add the report designer extension
  • restart the office
  • open any database
  • use 'Create Report in DesignView ..' from the Report panel

=> the SUN Report Designer should appear

Taskhandling for Sun Report Builder

Before writing a new Issue, please check if it not already exists: RPT Double Check

New Issue should contain:

  • summary should start with 'RPT: '
  • "Version" should be the version you're testing f.e. "RPT 1.1.0"

one-click submission

Development versions

The SRB development versions created when bugfixes in OOo Base touch SRB code. The file name usually contain development version number, from version needs to be used. If no changes in SRB, no new versions generated, it can be used with newer versions, until another found in server.

The SRB development versions stored in qa ftp server: ftp://qa-upload.services.openoffice.org/SRB/ folder.

Author

Marc Neumann Christoph Lukasiak (Clu) 1 June 2007
Please do not change the logical content of this site without acknowledge of the author, the Database Docu Coordinator or the OOo QA Project Lead/Co-Leads.

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