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Hi John,
If you would like to change the background color of a text component at
runtime, you can use the Color property or the Highlight Text button on the
Format Toolbar. You need to be sure the text component has its Trans… -
Hi Todd,
Are you trying to detect the page header? If so, you could check the
Report.AbsolutePageNo to be sure the value is greater than one in the
HeaderBand.BeforePrint event. If so, then display the field.
MyDB… -
Hi Ken,
The Delphi compiler warnings - UnsafeType, UnsafeCode, UnsafeTypeCast were
added prior to VCL.NET being released with the intent that developers could
prepare their VCL Win32 code to be compiled for VCL.NET. (The .NET … -
Hi Chris,
This property will be calculated in report units meaning the units defined
for the TppReport.Units property. If for instance your report units are
inches and you are using 8.5x11 paper and a 1 inch margin, setting t… -
Hi Chris,
You can use the SummaryBand.PrintPosition property to manually position the
summary band at the bottom of the report. This property is in report units.
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Regards,
Nico Cizik
Digital Metap… -
Hi Stuart,
We actively support the latest major version of ReportBuilder (RB 10.x)
including bug fixes, tech support, and minor updates. Although we will
provide tech support for general questions pertaining to an older versi… -
Hi Dean,
The PageBreak component is working as designed in this case. It is
generally used to separate two components inside the same band by breaking
the page. Thank you for the feedback however, we will take a look at the … -
Hi Marek,
For future reference, please send all attachments to
support@digital-metaphors.com.
A lookahead variable calculates during the first pass of the report then
retrieves this value and displays it if necessar… -
Hi Emil,
The extension of a template file is set inside the TppReportTemplate.Create
routine inside the ppTmplat.pas file. This is not an editable property so
you would need to alter the ReportBuilder source to change the fil… -
Hi Steve,
It is not currently possible to change the font of each report component in
a band automatically. One option is to create a simple report object loop
that singles out a specific band and does the work for you.
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Hi Wes,
ReportBuilder 9.x and higher introduced the Angle property for each
non-stretchable text component. Set the Angle property for the Label/DBText
to 180 to rotate the text accordingly.
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Regards,
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Hi Sue,
Which version of ReportBuilder and Delphi are you using? Also, which
version of Windows are you running? Are you using the built-in email
feature included with RB? If so, which email plugin are you using to sendHi Cary,
We realize that this is a problem that effects more than one person however
please understand that it is nearly impossible for us to track down an issue
we are unable to recreate here on our machines. We have extensi…Did you get the same error when you installed ReportBuilder? Try
reinstalling ReportBuilder and see if the help merges correctly. The
RBInstallHelper does not use H2Reg to merge the help files into the BDS
namespace. Have you tr…Hi Chee Yang,
We have not seen this behavior before. Is there perhaps some virus or other
security software that could be stopping the merge process? Try disabling
all security software temporarily and re-merging the help. …Hi Gregory,
This is an issue that affected some early downloads of RB 10.06. Please
re-download ReportBuilder from our website (using the same download link)
and re-install the product.
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Regards,
Hi Gregory,
RBHelpInstaller is a command line application. You will need to run it from
the command line as the administrator with the proper parameters to manually
merge the RB Help into the BDS namespace. Simply run the ap…Hi,
This an issue that occurs on Vista only. There is a patch for RB 10.06 that
resolves it. Please send an email to support@digital-metaphors.com
requesting the patch and we'll send it to you as soon as possible.
…Hi Alex,
You can use the daGetDataModule() routine to obtain the datamodule
associated with a report object...
uses
daDatMod;
lDataModule := daGetDataModule(Report);
if (lDataModule &l…Alex,
I'm a bit unclear about how your report is setup.
There is only ever one DataModule object for a report. The DataModule can
contain numerous QueryDataView objects, which have access to the
datapipeline(s) tha…Hi Alex,
Sorry, I did not see the next question.
You can access the selected fields from the DataPipeline object. Either by
using the Report.Datapipeline property or accessing the pipeline from the
dataview itself.…Hi Alex,
You can use the Report.Groups[] property to access each group created in a
report. Once you have access to the group you can access the HeaderBand and
FooterBand properties. There are also the Report.GroupHeaderBand…Hi Santy,
Once the report has begun generating, it is not a good idea to begin
altering the data. This would most likely force you to close the dataset
which may cause problems with the datapipeline and engine on where it is …Hi Larry,
It seems the TGridBandTool class is used to fill the chart background with
two alternate colored bands and is located in the TeeTools unit in TeeChart.
Try adding this to your uses clause and see if that solves the p…Hi Mark,
This is a tricky requirement
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I assume you will be using a duplex capable printer. The pro…Hi Dave,
The EInvalidTemplateError is raised in the TppTemplate.StreamType routine.
Inside this routine, the IsValidASCIISignature or IsValidBinarySignature
methods are called to verify that the signature is correct at the beg…Hi Tony,
Which version of ReportBuilder are you using? Is this code in RAP or
Delphi? If you take a look at the TppGroup class source located in the
ppClass.pas file, is the ReprintOnSubsequentPage property read/write?
…Hi Tony,
The TppGroup.ReprintOnSubsequentPage property is published and read/write.
In my quick testing I was able to successfully set this property at runtime.
Are you certain you are not using the similar property ReprintOnS…Hi Nikolai,
The following examples will give you a good starting point to creating a
table of contents with ReportBuilder.
http://www.digi…Hi Jeroen,
Inside the OnCancel event, try checking the DataPipeline.BOF and
DataPipeline.EOF properties to determine whether there is data available for
the report or not and whether the report is being canceled by a user or b…