Description: I know that the Base Report Designer is based on Writer, but adding more drawing toolbars (like the ones present in LO Draw) would push the Report Designer a good notch above the competition... I personally need the option to draw lines at all angles, would be very nice to be able to use connector tools, glue points and to be able to group graphic objects, use my own library of shapes if possible. If this existed it would be very easy to create up to date graphical wiring diagrams (electrical engineering) that would change based on the database content. Databases are very useful to store cable lists and other similar signal interconnection tables that can all be nicely integrated together while the Report Designer would provide a much needed automatic creation of wiring drawings, instead of current situation of a gazilion different documents in excel and autocad format (or similar) for all of which it is necessary to track their own revisions etc... It can be a proper nightmare to take care of all the necessary documentation and validate the as built documentation on more complex projects. Having all the project data in one database (where certain data validation can be done automatically) while in the same time having a more advanced graphical Report Designer would make it possible to automate the tedious task of creating and maintaining of various wiring diagrams throughout a project. Such a tool is dearly missing in the Linux world, and the beauty of using LibreOffice Base for such tasks is that it can be easily adjusted for any new project with any new/significantly different requirements... Actual Results: Not possible to draw complex shapes with the current toolbox. Expected Results: not applicable Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: Additional Info: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.1.1; Pixel Build/NMF26U) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.91 Mobile Safari/537.36
Seems a fair enough request - wishes are free :-) Possibly, even just integrating the drawing toolbar from Writer might be a step in the right direction.
I don't have LibreOffice installed at the moment so I don't know which toolbars are included with Writer, but if they contain at least the 'line' tool that can be drawn in any angle, that would already be a major plus for me... Alternatively, if it was possible to draw the detail in Draw and then copy/paste it into Report Designer, that would also be a very nice possibility. But methinks this is not supported at the moment... The shapes that can be placed from the toolbar directly have special properties like Visible, Print visible, etc, which are not present in Writer/Draw shapes. Could it be that the shapes are same only in name/form but there is some extra layer that makes them tick in Report Designer? And would it be a big issue to apply the same thing for other toolbars that are present in Writer/Draw?