
If you use OpenOffice or LibreOffice to view, process and edit your documents, you have probably already tried open PDF with OpenOffice and LibreOffice but without success. The only "limitation" of PDFs is that they are not editable with any program: you need to use software PDF Editor to edit the content of the PDF. Inserted page numbers, and done other formatting, save the report.Documents in PDF they have become the standard for sending digital files as they are usually small in size, easy to view, print and supported by any computer or mobile device. When you’ve dragged fields onto the report, set options, Window where you have a lot of control over how the fields and the Onto the appropriate section of the report.Ĭlick the Sorting and Grouping icon on the toolbar to get this That selection, the Add Field palette appears use it to drag fields Select Table orĪnother type of data, then select the actual source. This is the tab that disappears too quickly. Choose Insert > Report, and you’ll see the report odb database file for the database you want to create a To use the Sun Report Writer extension, download and install it first. I'm going to have to spend a lot more time with this to really figure it out and give some procedures, but here's a short tour of the basics. Quite a feature set, including grouped records, sorting of records,ĭifferent alignment of text fields, and calculations.

I’ve spent aįew hours with it and one thing that bugs me a bit is that the tabįor selecting the data source for the report disappears if you click The Report Builder extension looks like it has a lot of powerfulįeatures, though not exactly easy to see how to use.

So I’m particularly glad to see some work being done with reports, in the new Report Builder extension from Sun. It works but it doesn't have huge features.

Anyone who's worked with the Base report writer knows that it's.a first generation product.
