How to call back titles in a table?

cyberjuls

Here's my problem,

I have a document splited in three parts :

1- Generalities
2- Articles
3- Quantities

All this is document is organized on titles so i get a nice table of content at the begining of the document without problem. My problem is that the quantities are dependant of the articles. In chapter articles i have to describe technical information about composition and way of using some articles. Thus articles are changing each time i'm doing a new document.

here is an example how it looks like

4.2.1 Window A21

Steel structure
reinforced glass
color : grey
etc etc....

Now what i want is to insert a table in the third part (quantities) wich call back automaticaly in the first column the title of the articles. This is more or less the same process as an index. The only problem is i have to get this in a table, because i have to calculate quantities here and do not want to copy/paste all titles again.

Here's what i should get

|4.2.1 Window A21 | "type of unit" | "quantity" | "unit price" | "total price |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|4.2.2 Window A22 | "type of unit" | "quantity" | "unit price" | "total price |

If anyone as an idea of how to do it, it will helps a lot.

Thanks.

cyberjuls · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 5:59 pm Post subject:

Up.

Nobody?

JohnV · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 7:30 pm Post subject:

OK, I'll take a shot. When you create "4.2.1 Window A21" select it and do Insert > Bookmark.

When you create the table do Insert > Cross-reference, choose the name of the bookmark and on the right use either "Reference" or "Chapter".

I have no idea if this is what you are looking for but then apparently no one else was sure about that either.

David · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 9:05 pm Post subject:

DrewJensen · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 10:00 pm Post subject:

It looks like you are trying to create a catalogue, or inventory, or quote, or manifest? In which case then I would agree that keeping your data seperate from your presentation would be of value.

You could use a spreadsheet, I think a database would make more sense, but a spreadsheet is (can be ) a type of database.

In either case Base/Calc you would be buidling both a place to store the pieces of information, and a proceudre to 'report' this information out. In your case a writer document, generated, most likely using a template and some macros, from this informaton.

EDIT - After a few more minutes thought I have this to add.

Let's say you don't really want to get into making some kind of spreadsheet / database backend for this. You just want to make documents, that have the same type of structure each time. The data changes each time, but not the structure.

Then instead of conecntrating on the data and looking instead at the steps you need to perform to create the document.

OK here is a thought. Looking at you example I take it that the lines