OpenOffice, can't create reports in Base...

[Matt Price]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 01:17:47PM +0100, Andrea Giuliano wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to create reports with Base on Breezy, but when I click on 
> the wizard, a text document is created and the "progress bar" at the 
> bottom of its window doesn't go any further than a few "squares" (I 
> would say 15 or 20).
> 
> It seems that something should happen after that, but actually nothing 
> happens.
> 
> If I edit the new text document, I only can save it anywhere on the 
> disk, but it will never appear among the Base "Reports".
> 
> What's happening?

I haven't checked this for a while, but I think that the java-based
report wizard (along with a couple of other wizards) was broken in 1.9
betas -- still the official OOo2 packages in breezy.  I
believe they are now fixed in the debian 2.0.x builds; if you search
the forums you'll find various threads describing how to upgrade (I
think Automatix can take care of that for you, for example).  

> 
> Please note that the database is on MySQL 4.1, and it works fine (I can 
> create queries, tables and forms, just cannot create reports). All the 
> above also happens for any new database I create (actually, I just tried 
> with Calc files and csv files, nothing else).
> 
> Many thanks in advance.
> 

--------------------------
 .''`.       Matt Price 
: :'  :      Debian User
`. `'` 	     & hemi-geek
  `-     
--------------------------