Inserting data into report

[jimdwest]

I have built a report, that looks live at a DBF database. I see the Report form as I built it, and I can see the DBF file above (in another pane.) But I cannot get the data to merge into the report. I did it once, but by accident and have no idea what I did. That report can be seen at http://www.indianamilitary.org/28TH/Ros ... PDF-11.pdf

That works but poor design. In trying to do the column names and format better, I have what I want, but as mentioned can't get the data into the Report. End goal is a PDF file. Trying my very smallest DBFs now, but the others that I will want to change over have upwards of 30,000 records.

I've tried all the dropdown menus, and all the icons.

Thanks

[Villeroy]

Where do the data come from? Do they come from a query and the report never reflects any changes you made in the query?
Then you have to tweak your report around this issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=98163

[jimdwest]

The data is an old Lotus Approach DBF. It imports that data just fine. I made a small change in Approach and did see the change occur in OpenOffice. The problem I am having, is "merging" the Report form with the data. I see the data and I see the form of the Report, but I can't get them together. I know there is a simple fix, but no idea what it is. As I mentioned, I accidently got it all to merge on the database in the link above. All I need to do is to do that accident again.

[Villeroy]

Create a new report which should work as long as you don't modify the structure of the source table.