Oracle Report Builder

My old report from OO3.3 works just fine, just try it out....

Due to License incompatibilities, the extension no more developed.

The Apache OpenOffice 3.4 can work with ORB 1.2.1rev2, excluding charts. The charts graphical layer is changed in in AOO 3.4 and not changes in report builder, as consequence the reports with charts no more runs. It gives error "Failed to parse report."

The code was transferd to AOO project, if a volunteer want to continue development of extension, please connect the AOO project at mailing list: ooo-dev at incubator.apache.org

i need this sofware

thank you

When attempting to Add Report Builder to OpenOffice from Tools>Extensions and then pressing Add I am taken to my Documents load panel and asked to enter a name, presumably Oracle Report Builder, but on entering this (Documents) and pressing Open, I get an error message "No such file exists" Can you help, please? mckeagj@yahoo.com

Overall the usage is poor, does not seem to be tested very well.

Got problems with Java, double Updates, and usage at all.

It seems that this extension has only been tested in some very restricted environment, please add for which environments it should work.

On the other hand, it could only become better.

Hi,
OpenOffice is a great product, I reckon it's way better than some expensive ones. Some extensions are at the same level, some not. Oracle Report Builder is just not stable enough. I give you an example:

One OpenOffice base contains several tables. I used the wizard to create a report (the simplest one, all columns from the table , i.e. 5 columns, no sort, no group, no filter...). It works! Brilliant I thought. So I tried to make one a bit more complex... Report is just an empty window.. Ok, let's go back to basic... I Tried again a simple report of the table, the same kind of report I've done before that worked. Oups... empty again... ok, let's do exactly the same report than the first try, same table, same columns, no sort, no group, no filter... well... this time, it did not work, empty again....

I tried plenty of stuff, reinstall the extension, quit and restart, change parameters... No, it's just unstable, so unstable I just can't use it. I uninstalled it. Maybe I'll try it again in a couple of months when a new release will come, or not...

the same Problem as the last time I updated the Sun Report Builder, I not only had to quit the base application, I have to shut down OOo quicklancher!

I installed Oracle Report Builder in German OOo 3.2.1 but there are no menus e.g. File, Edit ... and no tool icons with this application.

Bonjour,

J'ai réalisé une requête avec 1 paramètre qui apparait 3 fois dans mon instruction SQL.
Le problème est que lorsque je crée un rapport (en utilisant Report Builder) qui utilise les éléments de cette requête et que je l'ouvre, une boite de dialogue me demande de rentrer 3 paramètres qui ont le même nom.

Je pense que cela est un bug de Report Builder car sans cette extension, il n'y a pas de problème.

Quelqu'un pourrait il m'aider.
Merci.
Salutations.

Is there a method to use Calc Add-on functions in the reports? I've got a question about Sun Report Builder and my Calc Add-on, Numbertext. (Numbertext gives functions for spelling out numbers and money amounts in native languages, and it is accessible in OpenOffice.org extensions by service FunctionAccess of UNO or by Numbertext Java jar, see http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/numbertext and http://www.numbertext.org.) Thanks, László

Hello!

You can't install this version on Ubuntu 10.04. Please uninstall this version (if installed) an install the Sun-Report-Builder from the Ubuntu-repository!

-just write this in your terminal:
sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-report-builder

-or use Synaptic an search for:
openoffice.org-report-builder
and install it....

Now it works!

I hope this will help anybody

krebsi83

I had no trouble installing SRB on WinXP; however on Ubuntu 10.4, as already reported, SRB gets installed but afterwards, not only is SRB non-functional, but original report generation is impossible, too.

In addition, on WinXP I got several crashes when trying to save changes. In the meanwhile I happened to read other OO forums and think it has to do with compression, but still, the time to save seems incredibly long.

Bernhard

Easy to use and more flexible than the Wizard.
Installation was straight forward on XP SP3 / openoffice.org 3.2.0.

Using Ubuntu Studio 64 v10.04, OpenOffice 3.2
This report builder doesn't work at all. It just freezes everything totally, and completely removes any ability to make any reports of any kind.

Many question on forum asked what to do when no menu and toolbars.
It is could happen after installation of SRB, when you start using SRB without restart OOo.

Always restart OOo (quit quick starter, too) after SRB insatllation, before

I just wonder what is new to this release, the source (CVS-repository) seems to be untouched since abt. 2 years.

Martin

Bonjour,
Impossible de réaliser un cumul en pied de groupe pour une application de facturation (tout simplement le total de la facture).
L'option Accumulation provoque immanquablement un plantage et je ne connais pas une autre fonction qui pourrait lui correspondre, en effet SUM réalise un simple comptage des lignes.
Animateur de formation en entreprise je suis souvent confronté à ce problème sans pouvoir y répondre.
Merci de me répondre rapidement - salutations

Having read the other comments I thought I'd give it a go anyway ... waste of time. Have a Mac OS X 10.6.2. Installed the extension and then both the report builder and report wizard would both just give me an Add Field window (appeared and disappeared) with one field in it. Nothing to do with report building at all. So sadly disabled the extension and now I only have the wizard to play with. Oh well ... all I want to do is take out the header and add some fields as titles to my reports ... :(

I figured I'd try installing Sun Report Builder anyway. Sure enough, just as so many others have reported, the extension simply doesn't work. Very disappointing!

The moment I tried to run it, it simply died. It provides a second task to Create Report in Design Mode. Clicking that option, however, merely pops up a small window (presumably for selecting fields from a table), but the window then disappears instantly. The extension also seemed to screw up the Use Wizard to Create Report task. The only way to make OO base work again is to disable the extension. So I said "to heck with it" and removed the extension entirely.

Anyone have any ideas on another way to go about creating more advanced reporting functions, such as totaling a numeric field?

Hello,

I have OO 3.3.1 build 9420, Sun Java 1.6.1-17, and Report Builder 1.1.0 running in Windows XP Pro version 2002 SP3

When I start "create report in design view", I get a small dialog "add Field" which immediately disappears. The interface as shown in the documentation never appears. I can send screen shots, if that will help.

I tried a similar setup on a MacBook running OSX 10.5.8 and got a similar result.

Would someone please send me a test database that has a sample report built with report builder.

Thanks,

Alan C. James
alan_james@handshake.ca
Secretary, Stoney Creek Environment Committee
Burnaby, BC Canada
www.vcn.bc.ca/stoney

Report builder turned out to be a nightmare for me.
I'm working with open Source OS and Apps for a decade now with quite positive experience. OO writer and calc are really fine.
But OO base turned out to be heavily disappointing.
Was expecting kind of features M$ Access had 10 Jears ago and doing a "quick and dirty" data reorganisation project with it. Far away!
Sad enough that it took me hours to find that a reasonable record generator needs to be plugged as extension.
But since I did this I spent more time in crash recovery than in real work:-((

Behaviour might be related to this posts:
https://lists.launchpad.net/openjdk/msg01738.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/dba-bugs@openoffice.org/msg32609.html
Crashes of Repord Builder and OO when moving items and when saving reopened reports.
However, I did not come to the point to reproduce the problem(s). Every time after a crash I had to start from scratch.
I would rate maturity between late alpha and early beta, compared to usual open source experience.
I'll stop fiddling with OO Base, throw my data to a MySQL database and do reporting with php scripts, where I know what I do and what my machine is going to do.

In case sbdy tries to follow the issue, I'll give details here.

System Details:
OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 OOO310m21 (Build:9319) ... "von Novell erstellt" ... Build 3.1.1.5
Report builder: Download from today, 1.1.0
Linux version 2.6.25.18-0.2-debug (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.3.1 20080507 (prerelease) [gcc-4_3-branch revision 135036] (SUSE Linux) ) #1 SMP 2008-10-21 16:30:26 +0200
SuSE 11.0
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3600+
data stored on a nsf volume

But since similar problems are reported from Windows platforms as well, I don't think it is a system related issue.

We use OpenOffice 3.1 and WinXP. The server is MS Windows Server 2003.

The technician, as Administrator, has installed Sun Report Builder 1.1.0 on all the 22 computers in the school's lab. However, when the students log on they do not see 'Create Report in Design View...' in Base. They only see 'Use Wizard to Create Report...".

When I log on as Administrator I see it.

What do we have to do for the students to see the report builder? They do IGCSE ICT and need the report builder.

Regards,

Jan Nordgreen

after installing Sun Report Builder 1.1.0 "nur für mich" I got the extra "Bericht in Entwurfsansicht erstellen" but only a small window appear and disappear verry quickly.

Even worse clicking on "Bericht unter Verwendung des Assistenten erstellen" results in "Feld hinzufügen: Erste_Tabelle_meiner_Datenbank" without the chance to select any other table then the (alphabetic) first of my database. Regardless what I then tried to do, I didn't get any further, no writer document opens, nothing. Only closing the "Feld hinzufügen: Erste_Tabelle_meiner_Datenbank" window is possible.

Exit Base and restart didn't help but after closing the oOo quick launcher too, it looks quite hopeful for me.

Open Office 3.1.1 / Sun Report Builder 1.1.0
Opensuse 11.1 & Windows XP
When I go to Tools/Options/Appearance and scroll down to the bottom of the list and get the options for Report Builder, the items are all in Chinese (or Japanese?). In Windows the items are just lines of squares but in Linux the oriental characters show. (Does download look at my IP address and mix up .ca with .cn... I am in Canada)?

Hi,
RB 1.1.0 + OO 3.1.1
Creating a new report with group and sort, I get
com.sun.star.lang.WrappedTargetException.

Cannot be in ORDER BY clause in statement [SELECT * FROM (SELECT

"T_ecritureCompta"."date",
"T_ecritureCompta"."anneeAffectation" AS "AnneeScol",
"T_ecritureCompta"."anneeFiscale" AS "AnneeFiscale",
"T_ecritureCompta"."entree",
"T_ecritureCompta"."sortie",
"Tp_modeReglement"."libelle" AS "type",
"T_adherent"."prenom" AS "prenomAdherent",
"T_adherent"."nom" AS "nomAdherent",
"T_eleve"."prenom" AS "prenomEleve",
"T_eleve"."nom" AS "nomEleve",
"T_ecritureCompta"."commentaire",
"T_ecritureCompta"."banque",

"T_ecritureCompta"."guichet",
"T_ecritureCompta"."numCheque",

"T_ecritureCompta"."compteImane",
"T_ecritureCompta"."numChequeImane",

"T_ecritureCompta"."numPiece"

FROM "T_ecritureCompta"

LEFT OUTER JOIN "Tp_modeReglement" ON "T_ecritureCompta"."mode" = "Tp_modeReglement"."code"
LEFT OUTER JOIN "T_adherent"
ON "T_ecritureCompta"."adherent" = "T_adherent"."ID"
LEFT OUTER JOIN "T_parrainage"
ON "T_ecritureCompta"."parrainage" ="T_parrainage"."ID"
LEFT OUTER JOIN "T_eleve"
ON "T_parrainage"."filleul" = "T_eleve"."ID"
WHERE ("T_ecritureCompta"."mode" != 10 and "AnneeFiscale" 2000 )
ORDER BY "nomAdherent", "prenomAdherent", "T_adherent"."ID", "date"
)]

Request can be executed without the report builder
Any Idea?
Thanks

I have tried Sun Report Builder ever since OpenOffice 2.4. I seldom got it to work in 2.4 as it mostly froze.
I gave it a new chance in 3.0 and 3.1. Base still not stable with Sun Report Builder. (Or should we call it "Sun Crash Producer")
So, this is the third time I throw it out of my system, and this time it'll be permanent.

Running WinXP Pro with SP3 and Java 1.6.0_13 with OOo 3.1 Norwegian.

I upgraded ti ooo 3.1 recently and got Report Builder 1.1. At least with a database created with ooo 3.01 the Report Builder does not work :((
properly. Klicking on "create report ..." brings up the error message "no valid report template available". I checked the path settings, no improvement. When I disable the Report Builder, everything works fine with the Assistant. Surprisingly, there is no option to create reports in layout mode then anymore...

Any suggestions anybody?

Installed OOo 3.1 and Sun Report Report Builder 1.1 and a problem still exists in displaying phone number format in reports. Phone number field is formatted (000) 000-0000 but is displayed as (0000000000 in reports.

I have Open Office 3.0.1 installed on my laptop and I went about downloading this Sun Report extension. When I elect to run the extension the Extension Manager appears to install the extension but then it generates an error

"Error: The Status of the Extension is Unknown"

I tried uninstalling & reinstalling Open Office 3.0.1 and the Extension again and I still received the same error. My friend has the same setup as I do and the extension works fine on his machine so now I am even more baffled.

Can you please advise me on what steps to take?

Thanks a mill,
Sheila

I edited description.xml and rezipped the oxt file, but I keep getting the same error: can't install because dependencies not fulfilled, and then it puts the version number I put in the xml file. What version number am I supposed to match for OpenOffice.org 3.1.0 OOO310m11 (Build:9399)?

This beta is otherwise working beautifully, so I'm confident to try Sun Report Builder. I just need it to stop refusing to install because of the version#. Someone tell me how to do that.

When I go into Reports I cannot launch the Wizard or the creator at all untill I disable the Sun Report Builder and restart the app.

EDIT: launched open office from the command line and enabled sun report builder and got this when I clicked on the wizard:
com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException:
at com.sun.star.bridges.jni_uno.JNI_proxy.dispatch_call(Native Method)
at com.sun.star.bridges.jni_uno.JNI_proxy.invoke(JNI_proxy.java:178)
at $Proxy4.createInstanceWithArguments(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.star.wizards.reportbuilder.ReportBuilderImplementation.initialize(ReportBuilderImplementation.java:195)
at com.sun.star.wizards.reportbuilder.ReportBuilderImplementation.getFrame(ReportBuilderImplementation.java:308)
at com.sun.star.wizards.reportbuilder.ReportBuilderImplementation.getWizardParent(ReportBuilderImplementation.java:139)
at com.sun.star.wizards.report.ReportWizard.startReportWizard(ReportWizard.java:654)
at com.sun.star.wizards.report.ReportWizard.startReportWizard(ReportWizard.java:570)
at com.sun.star.wizards.report.CallReportWizard$ReportWizardImplementation.trigger(CallReportWizard.java:128)

Got nothing when I clicked on the design view.

This extension works fine with Kubuntu8.04 and ooo3 but in windows xp all you get is the design view mode whether you select create report in design or use wizard to create report.
Does anyone know how to fix this?

Hello,

I have installed the report builder and am somewhat satisfied with it. The main irritant is the placement of the Report Header/Footer. When you ask to insert them they are placed above and below the Detail section and there is no way to move them. This structures the report from top to bottom as: Page Header, Report Header, Detail, Report Footer, Page Footer. The Report Header/Footer and Page Header/Footer function as labeled; they are just in the wrong place on the page. The developers at Sun are aware of this issue and have chosen to not fix it. Even though the report builder functions reasonably well I am somewhat put off by the fact that Sun refuses to address a functionality issue that has been presented by more than one user.

Thanks for allowing me to vent.

coffeeroaster