[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 52944] EDITING: Report-Builder - Group start new column has no function

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52944

robert at familiegrosskopf.de changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
     Ever Confirmed|0                           |1
            Version|unspecified                 |3.3.4 release

--- Comment #1 from robert at familiegrosskopf.de 2012-08-09 07:17:13 UTC ---
I have had a look at http://www.openoffice.org/dba/specifications/index.html .
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Page 42 of the specification:
5.20  Multi-column report
A multiple column report allows the user for example to create a contacts
report with a phone book-style look to it, so that several columns appear on
each page. ...
Page 43:
5.20.1  Entry point
Multiple columns are available from the menu Format->Page.
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This was a planned feature. In no version of the report-builder (OOo, LO)
exists at Format → Page the possibility to set columns. You can only set the
page and the background.
The menue-entry 
Edit → Column Header/Footer
and (only reachable over the report-navigator, when you choose a group) the
property "Start new column"
are without any function, because there didn't exist any column and you can't
create anyone.

Two ways to solve this problem: 
- Add columns at Format → Page in the page-dialog (much programming; could be
there is no function in the code)
or
- Remove the entrys in Edit → Column Header/Footer and in the property of a
group. At this moment they only irritade the user. They could have a comeback,
when the function will be programmed. 

I prefer the second opinion. There are lot of other bugs to solve for the
report-builder and I have not heard, that anybody has missed this planned
function.

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