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  • Hi Isabeau,

    There are a few ways to cause a page break in ReportBuilder. The article I
    posted below explains a couple of them. You can also try using the
    Band.OutOfSpace property if you can get the timing correct.

    A…
  • Hi,

    This is not a known error with ReportBuilder. See if you can get the exact
    steps your client took to create this error and I will try to recreate it on
    my machine.

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  • Hello,

    The following article explains why you are loosing the reference to the
    BeforePrint event. The easiest way around this issue is to use RAP and keep
    all events local to the templates themselves.

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  • Hi Yannis,

    I am unsure why the regions are keeping together when you have the
    TppRegion.KeepTogether set to False. Be sure they are not inside a group or
    subreport with keeptogether set to True. If you set the Region.Stretch t…
  • Hi Yannis,

    If you right click over the region a popup menu should display the
    KeepTogether option toward the top.

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  • Hi Yannis,

    I'm a bit unclear about what you would like to happen here. By definition,
    KeepTogether will break a page if there is not enough room on the current
    page to fit the region. If you turn KeepTogether off, you will not…
  • Hi Jorge,

    1. Be sure you have the TppImage.Stretch property set to True. This can be
    done using the popup menu of the TppImage, using the Delphi Object Inspector
    or in code at runtime.

    2. Be sure you load the image…
  • Hi Chris,

    Take a look at the following example that adds a line under the last detail
    band on a page. Hope this helps.

    http://www.di…
  • Hi Marcus,

    Thanks for all the information. The thing about the TppDBCalc component is
    that it is not very smart. They are good for calculating simple sums across
    a single group in the group footer or in the summary band with n…
    in HELP! Comment by nicocizik June 2004
  • Hi Marc,

    Not to worry, we'll get this figured out :). I just need a little more
    information on how your repo…
    in HELP! Comment by nicocizik June 2004
  • Hi Mike,

    Is this a plugin you are creating on your own? If not, which plugin are you
    using?

    This is how some of the plugins work to find all the connections on your
    forms, but it is not necessary. You could customiz…
  • Hi Marie,

    Sorry I confused you in the last post. If this is simply a matter of
    traversing data in an array of String using a JITPipeline, all you need to
    do is assign the Result value of the GetFieldValue event to
    Array[JI…
  • Hi Marie,

    You do not want to populate your arrays inside the DetailBand.BeforPrint
    event. This is not the way Pipeline Linking works in ReportBuilder (as
    opposed to using parameterized queries in Delphi). Please see the articl…
  • Hi Reid,

    There are no known issues like this with the Group Headers printing multiple
    times before the group breaks. Double check to be sure your group is set to
    break on the correct value and that your data is in fact grouped …
  • Hi,

    We have never seen this behavior in ReportBuilder before. Which exporting
    software are you using? Are you able to recreate this issue using one of
    our demo applications included with ReportBuilder? As a test, try
    com…
  • Hello,

    I am a little confused about what the problem is. Would you like to print
    the report to PDF and to the Printer at the same time or is your report
    behaving like this and you would like to stop it?

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  • Hi Kumar,

    As far as I know, the method you describe below is the easiest/best way to
    determine whether the user has canceled the print job or not.

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  • Hi Emmanuel,

    The problem with using an event like the DetailBand.AfterGenerate is that
    there is no guarentee that it will only fire once. If you are trying to set
    the visibility of a component inside an event other than the
  • Hi Marcio,

    Take a look at the TppReport.Modified property. This boolean property will
    indicate whether a report has been changed in the designer or not.

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  • Hi Sydney,

    The group component allows you to break your report into several sections,
    based on the value of the field specified in the BreakName property. As the
    report traverses the records of your data, it tracks the value of…
  • Hi Sydney,

    Are you loading a richtext file into the TppRichText control? If so, the
    font defined in the file will be ported over. If you are creating the
    richtext text inside ReportBuilder, the font you initially set will be u…
  • Hi Sydney,

    Does this happen with every report you create? If you create a simple
    minimal report with a TTable, connected to a TDataSource and TppDBPipeline,
    then to a TppReport, do you still get the error. If not, try commenti…
  • Hi Syndey,

    Check out demo 33 located in the \RBuilder\Demos\1. Reports\... directory
    (dm0033.pas). This shows how to use a TppMemo to align mutliple (address)
    fields together and space them correctly.

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    Thanks…
  • Hello,

    Unfortunately the mail merge feature is not sifisticated enough to handle
    this type of letter. This would require a sort of Master-Detail mail merge
    which would be a cool feature for a later release.

    You might…
  • Hi Kumar,

    ReportBuilder does not communicate directly with your printer driver. If
    the lables are printing in the right size, this means ReportBuilder is
    defining the correct custom page size that you are setting. After this,<…
  • Hello,

    I'm unable to recreate this behavior on my machine. I'm not sure why this
    might be happening. Which version of ReportBuilder/Delphi are you currently
    using?

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  • Hello,

    This is not a known issue with ReportBuilder. Please create a small example
    of this behavior and send it in .zip format to support@digital-metaphors.com
    and I'll take a look at it for you.

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    Thanks for …
  • Hi Pavel,

    As a test, place a break point inside the TitleBand.Before print event to be
    sure it is getting fired when you preview to the screen and when you print
    to the printer. If not, you may need to load the image into the r…
  • Hi Tony,

    Try placing a TppShape inside a band with the ParentWidth and ParentHeight
    properties set to True. By coloring the (rectangle) shape, you will
    essentially be giving a band a background color.

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    Thanks…
  • Hi Michael,

    We have never seen behavior like this in ReportBuilder. Please send a small
    example demonstrating this error in .zip format to
    support@digital-metaphors.com and I'll try to recreate it on my machine.

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