/text/shared/guide/data_report.xhp Sun Microsystems, Inc. converted from old format - fpe database reports reports; creating database reports data sources;reports designing;database reports Create, Use, and Edit Database Reports The Report Wizard guides you through all necessary steps to create reports on your database tables or queries. The Report Wizard offers a sequence of dialogs, and in accordance to your selections in those dialogs, the report is built and filled with data. Create a Report With the Wizard Call the Report Wizard with the menu File - Wizard - Report. These are the main steps performed by the Report Wizard: Select the database and the table or query Edit the names that are printed for the database fields, if required Choose how to group and sort the database fields Choose a layout from one of the supplied templates The report will be created either as a template or as a static report: A report template can be re-used any time with the then current data. A static report is a snapshot of the data at the time of creation of the report. Use a Report The report templates can be opened any time from the database explorer: Press F4 to open the data source view. In the data source explorer, click the "+" icon left of a database name to display the database components. Click the "+" icon left of the Links entry to display the links. Double-click one of the report links to open the report as a new $[officename] Writer document. These links have been added to the Links entry automatically by the Report Wizard. Edit a Report On the last dialog page of the Report Wizard, you can choose to edit the report template before first use. Later on, you can edit any report template from its context menu under the Link entry in the data source view. Feel free to edit the page styles for the first page and the following pages, the paragraph styles, the number formats, the printed field labels, and more. However, you should not edit the report's SQL statement, database name, the hidden form controls, and related information, unless you have a thorough understanding of the database technology in use. To edit the column width for a column in the report: Open the report template in edit mode (see the previous section about how to edit a report template). Click into the main table area, where the data fields' contents will be filled in later. Open the context menu and choose the Table command. In the next dialog, select the Columns tab page and edit the column width. Close the dialog with OK. Save the template by clicking the Save Document icon.