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Can't find check box to change TppGroup.ReprintOnSubsequentColumns property

edited February 2011 in General
Hi,

I failed for looking the check box to change
TppGroup.ReprintOnSubsequentColumns property. I must update that property
via RAP in end user designer, but I am not set it up in the end user
designed. Please add the possibility to select group in the Object browser
and then show the groups properties in the object inspector. This is not
possible in the current version 12.03 - I would say that this is small bug.
If I click on the group object the group's header is shown in Object
inspector.

Petr.

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  • edited February 2011
    Hi Petr,

    Which version of Delphi are you using? In my testing with Delphi 2010 and
    ReportBuilder 12.03, selecting the Group from the Report Tree properly gives
    me access to all the group properties in the built-in inspector. It is also
    possible to adjust these properties using the Groups dialog.



    Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com

    Best Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com
  • edited February 2011
    Hi,

    I have app built with Delphi 2010. I captured video how RB works here. You
    can download it from http://www.dosli.cz/soubory/rb.zip. Sorry for the low
    quality video. But you can see that I am using 12.03. And I am not able to
    show group properties inside build in Object inspector and also you can see
    that I have no ReprintOnSubsequentColumns option in the group settings
    dialog at all. :-(

    I am using RB at runtime - no inside Delphi IDE.

    Petr.


    "Nico Cizik (Digital Metaphors)" píše v diskusním príspevku
    news:4d53eb1e$1@mail....

    Hi Petr,

    Which version of Delphi are you using? In my testing with Delphi 2010 and
    ReportBuilder 12.03, selecting the Group from the Report Tree properly gives
    me access to all the group properties in the built-in inspector. It is also
    possible to adjust these properties using the Groups dialog.



    Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com

  • edited February 2011
    Hi Petr,

    Which edition of ReportBuilder are you using? I made the exact test you did
    and selecting the group from the report tree correctly updated the object
    inspector (at runtime). Try re-downloading and re-installing ReportBuilder
    and see if that helps the issue.

    The reason you are not seeing the checkbox to Reprint on subsequent columns
    inside the Group Dialog is that your report does not contain any columns :).


    Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com

    Best Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com
  • edited February 2011
    Hi,

    I am using RB Enterprise version, I will try to update the installation and
    will report back.

    About the options in group dialog. Hmmm, ok I understand now. :-) But can
    this be changed? Optionally?

    Let me explain:
    We have in our system 4 different reports for one content. 1 column, 2
    columns, 3 columns version and special version with welcome page and table
    of content. In the new update we are working on new report, which can handle
    all of these four reports in one. You introduced anchor property which help
    us a lot :-). So in our application the user just click on the button print,
    little dialog with few options appear (1, 2, 3 column, Print welcome page,
    Print TOC) and then we propagate these options to the report.

    The report is designed as 1 column report (quite complicated report with
    more than 8 subreports and many RAP code to controll the flow of the
    generation) and in the creation of the report we just update its properties
    with the RAP code. And here is the problem, I spended more then three hours
    to find out, why is everything OK in one column report, but in two and three
    columns version are the captions (group captions) repeated on the top of
    each column. I was looking inside group settings and there were no
    ReprintOnSubsequentColumns option so I have no idea that the property
    exists. I never edited report with more than one column. So maybe just
    disable that check box, but don't hide it.

    Maybe there are other options which are hidden this way and I missed them
    :-).

    With regards

    Petr Slipek.



    "Nico Cizik (Digital Metaphors)" píše v diskusním príspevku
    news:4d541229$1@mail....

    Hi Petr,

    Which edition of ReportBuilder are you using? I made the exact test you did
    and selecting the group from the report tree correctly updated the object
    inspector (at runtime). Try re-downloading and re-installing ReportBuilder
    and see if that helps the issue.

    The reason you are not seeing the checkbox to Reprint on subsequent columns
    inside the Group Dialog is that your report does not contain any columns :).


    Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com

  • edited February 2011
    Hi Petr,

    If you are changing the columns manually (in code), why not simply change
    the Group properties in code as well?

    It is possible to create a custom groups dialog that removes the restriction
    of there being columns present to show the Reprint ... option. This would
    be the simple matter of copying the existing code (ppGrpDlg.pas), renaming
    the class, changing the code located in the "ReportAssigned" routine, and
    registering the new form. See the following article.

    http://www.digital-metaphors.com/rbWiki/Plugins/Dialogs/Replaceable_Dialogs

    Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com
    "Petr Slípek" wrote in message news:4d546537@mail....

    Hi,

    I am using RB Enterprise version, I will try to update the installation and
    will report back.

    About the options in group dialog. Hmmm, ok I understand now. :-) But can
    this be changed? Optionally?

    Let me explain:
    We have in our system 4 different reports for one content. 1 column, 2
    columns, 3 columns version and special version with welcome page and table
    of content. In the new update we are working on new report, which can handle
    all of these four reports in one. You introduced anchor property which help
    us a lot :-). So in our application the user just click on the button print,
    little dialog with few options appear (1, 2, 3 column, Print welcome page,
    Print TOC) and then we propagate these options to the report.

    The report is designed as 1 column report (quite complicated report with
    more than 8 subreports and many RAP code to controll the flow of the
    generation) and in the creation of the report we just update its properties
    with the RAP code. And here is the problem, I spended more then three hours
    to find out, why is everything OK in one column report, but in two and three
    columns version are the captions (group captions) repeated on the top of
    each column. I was looking inside group settings and there were no
    ReprintOnSubsequentColumns option so I have no idea that the property
    exists. I never edited report with more than one column. So maybe just
    disable that check box, but don't hide it.

    Maybe there are other options which are hidden this way and I missed them
    :-).

    With regards

    Petr Slipek.



    "Nico Cizik (Digital Metaphors)" píše v diskusním príspevku
    news:4d541229$1@mail....

    Hi Petr,

    Which edition of ReportBuilder are you using? I made the exact test you did
    and selecting the group from the report tree correctly updated the object
    inspector (at runtime). Try re-downloading and re-installing ReportBuilder
    and see if that helps the issue.

    The reason you are not seeing the checkbox to Reprint on subsequent columns
    inside the Group Dialog is that your report does not contain any columns :).


    Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com

    Best Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com
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