Control printing of individual fields via the Designer

rbuser

Hi

Please could someone tell me if there is any way to setup expression
evaluations that would control the printing of particular fields based on
certain criteria per detail line.

As an example I have a result set that has a field called LINETYPE that is
populated with 3 different possible values and I would like to define an
expression that evaluates LINETYPE when the report generates and determines
at that point wether to print the field or not. I specifically want field
level control and NOT line level control.

Another Report Designer I've used has an expression evaluator that allows
for this, so I was wondering if ReportBuilder has anything similar because
it's important to me to be able to offer that kind of control to my
end-users as there are existing documents that I intend to move over to
ReportBuilder that would immediately require this kind of expression
evaluation to print correctly and I have to allow my end-users to create new
documents and set expression-evalution on certain fields.

Thanks in advance

Allan Strydom
CK Services
South Africa

digitalmetaphors

Your end users can use RAP (Report Application Pascal, which is the
calculation workspace of the runtime designer). In RAP, you can code
calculations that affect the report output. There are examples and tutorials
on RAP in the installed Developer'sGuide pdf and also in the installed
RBuilder\Demos\0.RAP directory. You'll need ReportBuilder Enterprise to get
RAP. Add raIDE to your uses clause to enable RAP at runtime.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors