Re: Need instructions in Report editing

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 00:19 +0100, TEK-en wrote:
> I need some explanation or guiding regarding Reports.
>
> As developer
> Reports/Edit reports
> I create a new report
> In the Main section I add Vertical group. Into that Vertical group I
> add 
> Fields so that the Vertical group contains them.
> For each Field I have added I highlight it and then click on Edit to
> assign a 
> specific field to it.
> Then I Close
> I'm in the Detail view and click on Reports/my created report
> The report that is created only contains the name of the Table and the
> name of 
> my created report in bold.
>
> - I'm not sure at all what Vertical group is supposed to do but I
> thought that 
> it would arrange the fields in the report vertically, but that is just
> me 
> guessing.
>
> - So I can't say if this is a bug or not as I don't know what to
> except, 
> please advise me and explain what it's supposed to do and if it's a
> bug or 
> just me not understanding the meaning of it.

Sorry for the late reply. I wanted to reply properly by adding some text
in the Glom user manual. Please see the "Defining Reports" section here:
http://library.gnome.org/users/glom/unstable/glom-developer-usage.html.en
(You'll have to scroll down there because the table-of-contents links
don't work - I've filed a library.gnome.org bug about that already.)

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