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  • Hi Wei,

    Which database are you using? Are your reports loading/printing this slowly
    when using our demo applications? Try printing to another printer and see
    if that helps. Also, try printing a simple minimal report directly …
  • Hello,

    The easiest way to do this would be to use SQL to process the data before
    displaying it in your report. It looks as though you need to use the GROUP
    BY command to group all the similar codes and then perhaps an aggregate…
  • Hi Heiko,

    I'm sorry for the confusion. By default a DBMemo will word wrap
    automatically. There is however a Character Wrap property which may be
    getting mixed up in the translation somewhere. Which language are you
    trans…
  • Hi Heiko,

    This is not a known issue with ReportBuilder and in my testing I was able to
    get wordwrapping to work correctly with DBTexts and DBMemos. Please send a
    small example demonstrating this issue or perhaps some screenshot…
  • Hi Barry,

    Be sure you left click over the cell so that it is highlighted black before
    right clicking. Then you should have access to the "Skip Nulls" option for
    each field you drop in the crosstab.

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  • Hi Barry,

    Try setting the SkipNulls property of the crosstab cell equal to False. You
    can access this property by right clicking over the crosstab calculation
    cell and selecting Skip Nulls from the popup menu.

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  • Hello,

    For future reference, we prefer that you use your real name when asking
    questions on this newsgroup.

    It is never a good idea to manipulate data during report generation. This
    is not what the Report Engine was …
  • Hi Mike,

    Unfortunately, you will not be able to install two versions of ReportBuilder
    using the same version of Delphi. When you try to install a new version, it
    will automatically uninstall the older/current version you have i…
  • Hi Bhoj,

    Are you using DADE to create these datapipelines or are you creating them on
    a form? If you are using DADE, you can rename the field alias names by
    clicking on the Fields editor. Then in the bottom window click once o…
  • Hi Arun,

    The Report Outline was added in RB 7. Just select to ignore this property
    and the application should still work.

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  • Hi Arun,

    The following example displays the user's print selection after they print
    to the printer. You will specifically want to look a the PageList display
    as this shows which pages the user selected to print. Hope this help…
  • Hi Bill,

    Thanks for the information. Please send the code changes to
    support@digital-metaphors.com and I'll make the changes.

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  • Hi Bill,

    I was able to recreate this issue. I will research it further and get back
    to you as soon as possible. Thanks.

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  • Hi Andrea,

    ReportBuilder creates a font list based on the available fonts from Windows
    and your print driver. If this is working on 8 machines and not on 2, there
    must be a difference in the configuration either with the printe…
  • Hi Andrea,

    Be sure the two computers that are switching to Unicode have the same
    language settings as the other computers. ReportBuilder will use the
    regional settings set by Windows if you do not tell it otherwise. Check the<…
  • Hello,

    As a test try hooking a different printer to your Windows 98 machine and see
    if the problem persists. If it doesn't the issue is probably with the
    Printer driver. Check to see if there is an updated driver from the
  • Hello,

    Here are the lines of code that access the dbxConnections.ini file in
    ReportBuilder...

    if (aList.Count = 0) then
    GetConnectionAdmin.GetConnectionNames(aList, '');

    Be sure you are commenting or de…
  • Hello,

    Be sure you are using the updated daDBExpress.pas file when you compile your
    application. Check that your library path is pointing towards
    \RBuilder\Source\... and that you remove the path point towards
    \RBuilder\Li…
  • Hi Douglas,

    I do not believe there are any ReportBuilder add-ons to merge two PDF files
    but I did a quick Google search on the topic and found numerous PDF merger
    utilities including the following link which gave free source tha…
  • Hi Mike,

    Change your library path from \RBuilder\Lib.. to \RBuilder\Source. This
    will allow you to trace into the ReportBuilder source.

    Note: Be sure you remove the entery for \RBuilder\Lib or this will not work.
  • --------------------------------------------
    Tech Tip: Selecting Paper Bins for Each Page
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    Sometimes you may want to print the first page of a report to the
    manual bin and t…
  • Hi Jamie,

    There is a third party add on component named RotatedText that allows you to
    change the printing angle of a Label. You can download this component from
    our website ( in Traversal Label Comment by nicocizik October 2003
  • Hello,

    The easiest was to do this would be to pre-process your data before entering
    the report generation process. You could then extract your data fields
    using a JITPipeline to show them repeatedly on the report. I would
  • Hello,

    I am a bit unclear what you are trying to accomplish. You can connect your
    report to a JITPipeline and pull the data directly off your database from
    there. Then you will have control over how many times you would like t…
  • Hi Bill,

    Are you able to recreate the issue without using your custom viewer? There
    are no known issues of this kind with the TppCommunicator. You might try
    downloading a trial edition of RB 7.03 and testing with that.
  • Hi Paul,

    ReportBuilder 6.03 is not compatable with Delphi 7. Please consider
    upgrading to ReportBuilder 7.03.

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  • Hi Steve,

    Try using the OnDrawCommandClick event of a component to allow a user to
    click on an object and then perform some other task. The OnDrawCommandClick
    event fires when the draw command that represents the component in t…
  • Hi Trhia,

    Be sure your report does not reside on a DataModule. Try moving the report
    object to a form and see if this changes anything. Regardless, it is never
    a good idea to try to run a report on a DataModule.

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  • Hi Trhia,

    The Database information is saved down in the Report Template when designing
    a report. You will either need to change the name of the database used in
    your second app to match the one in your first one, or manually ed…
  • Hi Luis,

    Your best approach would be to use TppVariables to make all your
    calculations. Place variables in your header and detail bands and in the
    TppVariable.OnCalc event, pull the data directly out of the pipeline to be