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  • Hi Harry,

    Thanks for the suggestion. I will add this to our RB "wish list".

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  • Hi Gary,

    Although I am definitely not an expert on the best way to implement
    TeeChart. You could place a TeeChart on a form with its Visibility set to
    False. Then using the Chart.TeeCreateMetaFile method, you could save the
  • Gary,

    How are you connecting the charts to the datasets? Unfortunately, the
    ReportBuilder Teechart components will only work correctly when connected
    directly to a TppDataPipeline. If you are connecting some of your charts to<…
  • Hi Gary,

    ReportBuilder 7.02 is not compatable with TeeChart 6 or higher. Please
    upgrade to RB 7.03 and test with that. If you already own 7.02, the upgrade
    is free of charge. Contact sales@digital-metaphors.com with your seri…
  • Hi Don,

    I created a patch for this issue that allows you to change the font color of
    a check box by using the MyCheckBox.Font.Color property. Please send an
    email to support@digital-metaphors.com and I'll send it right out to y…
  • Hi Danny,

    You can use the ppDetailBand.BandsPerRecords property to print the same
    record more than once.

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  • Hi Don,

    When the DBCalc component is accumulating values to calculate an average, it
    stores the sum of the records in the Value property and the count of the
    records in the Divisor property. Then in the OnGetText event, it calc…
  • Hi Harry,

    Thanks for the suggestion. This probably could be achieved currently with
    the use of the OnNoData event and a TppRegion perhaps that gets its
    visibility set based on the presence of data or not.

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  • Hi Simon,

    As far as I know there are no utilities that will convert a PDF file to the
    Report Template format .rtm directly. Your best option may be to find a
    utility that will convert a PDF file to RichText or WMF format then e…
  • Hi Ed,

    After further research, I am unable to recreate this issue. I created a
    report with a stretchable region and a subreport inside the region. Both
    the region and subreport have their KeepTogether properties set to True.
  • Hi,

    This seems to be a special case. You might try adding a condition that
    checks the current record value and compares it to the last record value the
    last time the event was fired. If the value is different, make the
    ca…
  • Tyler,

    Which version of ReportBuilder/Delphi are you using? If you have RB 7.03,
    have you tried the latest patch? If you would like you can send me copies
    of the images and/or the reports that are having problems to
    suppo…
  • Hi Jeff,

    Unfortunately some printer drivers are very touchy when it comes to imaging.
    Here are a few things to try to get your images to show up.

    1. Be sure the Image.Transparent property is set to False.

    2. T…
  • Hello,

    The best way to print continuous reports in sequential order is to use
    Section style Subreports. Try placing three TppSubreport components inside
    your main report's Detail band and set them to be Section Subreports. You…
  • Hi Fabio,

    Unfortunately there is no built in functionality in ReportBuilder to limit
    the pipelines being showed in the list. You can try setting the visibility
    of each individual pipeline object you want to filter to False and …
  • Hi Dmitri,

    If you are loading templates, there is a good chance you are loosing the
    report's reference to the event handler code you wrote. Check out the
    article below for more information on lost event handlers. You may need …
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    Tech Tip: Detecting whether PrintDialog's
    Cancel button was Selected
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    When the print dialog is displayed to the
    user, you…
  • Hi Jeff,

    The easiest way to do this (in my opinion) is to convert the chart to a meta
    file using the TeeChart.TeeCreateMetaFile, then loading that image directly
    to a TppImage component on a report.

    var
    lMeta: …
  • Hi Harry,

    Check out the end-user MDI demo located in the \RBuilder\Demos\3. EndUser\4.
    MDI\... directory. This gives you a good example of how to show the
    designer and preview windows as a MDI child.

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  • Hi Shaine,

    Which version of ReportBuilder are you using? In my testing, the groups did
    not restart when the page broke. If possible, please send a small example
    of this behavior in .zip format to support@digital-metaphors.com …
  • Hi,

    Although it is not recommended to make changes to a report during
    generation, you can definitely try setting some of your header band's
    visibility property to False based on the values of some calculations or
    data recor…
  • Hi Rick,

    Once the DBMemo has loaded, you can access the ppDBMemos.Lines TStrings
    property to find out how many lines are in the memo. Using the text height,
    you can compare the approximate total height of the memo to the height…
  • Hi Rob,

    Groups in ReportBuilder are determined by the changing of the break value
    given by the user. If you would like Account 1, 2, and 3 in the same group,
    you will need to make their break value (Heading) the same, then chan…
  • Hello,

    Unfortunately the DBCalc component will only sum the values from a data
    field in your database. We have had a few other customers ask for this
    component to be enhanced to sum other values such as TppVariables and other
  • Hi Juliana,

    Unfortunately the built-in ReportBuilder RichText editor does not support
    graphics. Please see the article below on using a third party richtext
    editor such as InfoPower or WPTools in ReportBuilder.

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  • Hi Rhonda,

    In the CrossTab designer, right click and be sure the "skip nulls" option is
    not checked in the popup menu. This should print the empty lines for you.

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  • Hi Michael,

    Your best approach would be to place a stretchable region inside the detail
    band with the border turned off and KeepTogether set to True. This should
    give you the effect you are after.

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  • Hi Jonas,

    Check out the
    news://news.digital-metaphors.com/digital-metaphors.public.reportbuilder.tech-tips
    newsgroup in the "Code Based" thread for more helpful articles on creating
    reports completely in code.

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  • Hi Jonas,

    You need to add ppTypes to your "uses" clause.

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  • Tathiana,

    When you receive the IEditCha.dcu not found error, this means you are trying
    to edit a chart at runtime with the version of TeeChart that came shipped
    with Delphi. To solve this problem, you will need to purchase a re…