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Sorry, there is still a problem with the multi-column subreports with
ShiftRelativeTo.
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Jim Bennett
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You can use our DataDictionary component in order to specify friendlier
field names (field aliases) for data field names coming through the data
pipelines.
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Jim Bennett
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The added features you get in 6.03 shouldn't cause that large of an increase
in your footprint. Are there more reports stored in your exe by chance?
Did you upgrade to RB 6.03 Pro or Enterprise? RB Enterprise includes RAP,
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You can apply any kind of formatting in RB. This demo creates custom
formatting:
http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/ReplaceDisplayFormats.zi… -
Thanks, we'll look into this.
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Jim Bennett
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Set the Label.Transparent property to False and then set the Color property.
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Jim Bennett
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Our native merge field support doesn't have this. However, RBAddOn
components have this feature, where you can specify the These components are available at
www.bancoems.com\RBAddOn.htm
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Jim Bennett
I saw that you said TppImage, so I assumed that you were taking the
imagepath from the db, not the blob, sorry. So, you can still place a try
accept to catch the exception. Don't use a TppDBImage, and use the
datapipeline to get the…Use a Try Except and maybe load a default 'NoImage.jpg' into the TppImage
when an exception is rasied.
try
ppImage1.Picture.LoadFromFile(plReportData['ImagePath']);
except
on EFOpenError do
ppI…The easiest way would be to use the PageStyle band. It prints behind all
other bands. If you have a static height header band, then this is the way
to go. If you have a dynamic height header band, then you will need to
create two line…Did you also receive any report tempate files (.rtm)? If they are in ascii
format, you can open them up as a text file and check to see the RB version
entry line. This may help determine if the file is older or newer then RB
5.55. I…It is probably a printer driver problem. Try using the Generic/TextOnly
driver for the dot matrix printer.
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Jim Bennett
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There is a Group object that you can manipulate. It is owned by the report.
There is a Report.Groups[] array property. There is more info on this
property in the RBuilder.hlp file.
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Jim Bennett
Di…There are 3 Deselect*Def methods on the crosstab that you can use to remove
dimensions from the crosstab. See the help file on the crosstab for more
info.
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors
<…If you want to refesh the page, the report will have to be regenerated,
since the font may affect how much space the controls use on the page, and
this would affect the positions of other objects on each page.
If you are going t…The following article does this in code. You could create a little utility
function in your app that the end user could run to select a report from a
list, and change all of the fonts in that report:
----------------------------…These two properties are specific to reports where you don't want to print
on the first page or don't want to print on the last page. You are seeing
the correct behavior. What you will need to do, is set the
Report.PassSetting to psT…If you are using TppDBCalcs, then check that they are connected to the
correct datapipeline (it should be the same pipeline that is connected to
the current report).
Are the subtotals coming from TppDBCalcs or are you using TppV…The problem with your demo project is that the subreport1 needs to be set to
invisible before the detail records have been traversed by the report.
The best approach is to create a lookup query. The lookup query should
create a…I've downloaded your attachment from the news server from a couple days ago.
I'll try changing the timing of your events a little, to see if I can get
this approach to work in your example.
Cheers,
Jim BennettIf there are no printers installed on a machine, then
Report.PrinterSetup.PritnerName can be set to Screen. If you try to print,
then this is the message that you should get.
Make sure that your customer has a printer installed:…You could use the Report.OnPreviewFormCreate event to create your window to
show the user a message that the data is being accessed and that the report
is generating.
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Tech Ti…RBAddOn offers a PageBreak report component which you can drop between the
two regions, as an alternative. www.bancoems.com/RBAddOn.htm
If you create a group on the label, then the group will only change when the
text in the la…The easiest waay would be to create a master detail report and use the
RangeEndCount. In SQL, there is no standard support to limit a number of
records for a group of data in the dataset.
If you don't have master detail data av…Place all of the reports inside of a single report, by using multiple
section-style subreports. See the Subreport's PrintBehavior property. This
is the preferred way to print multiple reports as one. Our main reports
demo #51 uses t…Sorry, I was out of town for Christmas. Did you get this report working?
You could try setting Report.CachePages to true. Are your variables getting
reintialized in the Report.BeforePrint event? When you print from the
previewer, t…Ok, You migrated from Win98 to Win 2K, so that means that there is a
different printer driver in use. Reduce the static height of the controls in
the detail band to see if that helps. Perhaps, the Win2K printer driver is
returning a s…The report will create one detail band for every record in the report's
assigned datapipeline. Since you want to pull data from the grid, you may
want to look at our JITPipeline. There is an example of using the
JITPipeline on a gri…Set Report.ModalPreview to False:)
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors
RB 6 doesn't add support for nested regions.
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Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors