Open the Report-Builder for editing. Create a group. In the general properties of the group-name you could choose "Start new column". Set this to "Yes". When you open the report there is no difference between "No" and "Yes" in this property. It couldn't be, while there are no columns in any report. You can not set any column at any place of the Report-Builder. Seems to be a GUI-Dummy for a planned functionality.
I have had a look at http://www.openoffice.org/dba/specifications/index.html . -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.
Just testing all bugs from Report-Builder. This bug first appears in the oldest available version of LO, 3.3.0 beta1. So I set the first available bugzilla-version, 3.3.0 release.
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