Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: database2spreadsheet

Am 17.03.2015 um 21:41 schrieb Andreas Säger:
> Am 17.03.2015 um 13:36 schrieb hw:
>
> > Sorry, this is the wrong answer to the right post --- still a question,
> > though.
> >
> > The answer to this post should have been that I would need the images to
> > appear in the spread sheet.
>
> Pictures in Calc are no spreadsheet data. Pictures are decorative,
> illustrating elements pinned to the cells or to the top-left corner of a
> sheet. Writing a program to manipulate many calculator cells so they
> wrap around picture objects is very difficult. Absolutely non-trivial.

Hence my idea to resize the pictures outside of LO to suitable 
dimensions and put links to the resized ones into the CSV (or a databse 
table) to have them displayed reasonably in the spreadsheet.

> For a LibreOffice user there is only one built-in tool to do reporting
> with pictures. It is the report tool.

Hm, I'm not too happy with that because the defaults aren't too useful, 
and when I wanted to make a report to display data from a table, the 
report didn't display any of the data but the default placeholders instead.

> You are a Perl programmer. This kind of stuff has always be done with
> html reports.

Then the data cannot be edited as easily as with a spreadsheet ... 
However, a web page just like a spreadsheet would be very useful.  I 
will have to look for some tool that works for this; there's probably 
something I could use.

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