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Issue with Page Navigation in Viewer on rbserverlive Demo

procfit — Thu, 01 May 2025 14:56:50 +0000

I found the URL https://www.digital-metaphors.com/rbserverlive/ where it's possible to test the server version of Report Builder. I accessed the site and tested it — I really enjoyed the experience. However, I noticed an issue: when I'm in preview mode and try to navigate through the pages, the content doesn't change — it stays stuck on the first page. But when I click to print the report, it generates the PDF correctly, and I can see the full report with all pages. Is this a known limitation of the viewer in preview mode? Or is this behavior unexpected and should the viewer allow full page navigation without needing to generate the PDF? Thanks!

64-bit PChar pointer arithmetic gives range check error

JanDoggen — Thu, 16 May 2024 09:51:00 +0000

Issue description: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78459947/64-bit-pchar-pointer-arithmetic-gives-range-check-error This happens in 64 bit Delphi 12.0 The TdaSQLParser.Tokenize(aSQLText: TStrings; aDatabaseType: TppDatabaseType = dtOther); does a TdaSynHighlighterSQL.Create(nil); This repeatedly calls procedure TdaSynHighlighterSQL.DoAddKeyword(AKeyword: String; AKind: integer); and the error occurs on the first call with AKeyword = 'absolute' The HasKey calculation then fails as described in the StackOverflow post How to fix this?

Error sending email using Web Tier's TppEmailConnectionStrings

maxchen — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 06:49:44 +0000

Hi, we are currently trying the demo version of the Server Edition's WebTier. We've set the ConnectionSettings to the following to test the sending of email using the toolbar's email button: HostAddress: smtp.office365.com MailService: SMTP Port: 587 UseTLS: True I've not changed any of the settings in the WebMail. Currently it is being run on our localhost port 127.0.0.1. I've set the user name and password of the sending email. When I click the 'Send' button, i get an error saying: 'Error sending email: User Abort' May I know how should we setup the WebTier's email connection settings using an office 365 email address? Thank you.

Are we able to deploy th ReportBuilder Report Designer as a web application using the Server Edition

maxchen — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 08:17:21 +0000

Hi, I would like to find out if it is possible to use the Report Builder Server Edition's web tier or any of its functionalities to deploy the Report Designer as a web application. Thank you.

Default Web Tier example doesn't working.

GJRIVERO — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 01:34:56 +0000

Testing custom parameters server with rbclientExplorer is working very well. With Web Tier example, after login the application show this message: localhost refused to connect. . In the cache directory, the html has the information, but not showing in the browser.

Server does not reuse running sessions

svenheuer — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 16:07:07 +0000

Hi, using TrsServer and TrsReportExplorerVolume I can see that a running session will always be used only for one time. After TrsServer.timeout seconds the session is removed. Is there any property which have to be set that sessions can be "reused" again. Each session is loading the folder and items list to find the report. At least this is very "expensive" Best regards

raCodMod not found

jmrhdz — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 00:07:43 +0000

we have many projects with Delphi Tokyo and RB 19, when compiling in Delphi Rio and RB 20.0 my project say "[dcc32 Fatal Error] RptVisorFS.pas(10): F2613 Unit 'raCodMod' not found." this unit doesn´t existe where I install my RB20.0 cant helpme please

webtier - xls - autosearch

lorife — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 13:26:24 +0000

Hello, I tried using webtier to generate directly a PDF with parameters sent using asg0f0se and it works. then, i tried to generate and xls (content=xls) and it works. then I tried to generate an xls without sending any parameter. I would like autosearch to ask the user to input them. As soon as i input the parameters in autosearch, instead of writing xls it will go to the viewer. Inside the viewer I just see the print button (which generates a pdf) and I see no way of writing an xls. is there a way to do it? thanks.

Windows Service Tutorial with files

Joe_A — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 20:26:36 +0000

Hello, I am running through your tutorial for running a report server from a windows service. The tutorial uses the previous Report Explorer tutorial. I am trying to implement the same tutorial but using the previous "Reports in Files" example. I followed the same steps but when I try to open the report (which comes from a file) I get this error: "Server error: Processing request for report Examples\rb003OrderList EFDException,[FireDAC][Stan][Def]-254. Definition [RBDemos] is not found in []. Can you give me some guidance on what the error is and how I can correct it? Thanks Joe

Where is my Cache Folder?

GRAYTech — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 17:29:12 +0000

We moved to a new server and I made some changes to the server side configuration. Previously I set the web_cache folder to http:///REPORT/CACHE Instead of the DNS Name for the machine I decided to use LOCALHOST eliminating the need for the DNS entry. So the WEB_CACHE is now set to http://LOCALHOST/REPORT/CACHE Everything seems to be working but my CACHE folder is no where to be found? I've looked everywhere on the server and the client side. Shouldn't the "time.txt" file be somewhere for this to work or does this cached in memory until memory is full? This is running on Windows 2012R2 RB Server 12.1 Delphi 2007 (I'm in the process of upgrading to the current version of RB / Delphi etc) Thanks - Jon Gray

Unicode font encoding in exported PDF

Yottskry — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 15:28:42 +0000

Hi, How do I set the PDF produced when the user clicks the printer icon in the web viewer to produce a Unicode encoded PDF file? I've tried many different things within RB Server but I cannot get it to output anything other than ANSI, so chinese characters all come out as "????". Thanks, Steve

32 bit good. 64 bit bad

Taz — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 14:56:08 +0000

We've been converting from 32 bit to 64 bit for all our Delphi code. This applies to our ReportServer, including the WebTiers that we use in IIS. Our main application is fine, it can talk to our ReportServer OK and show reports just fine - I mention this to indicate that this is working OK. Our WebTiers are hosted in Windows Server 2010R2, IIS 8.5 When we use the 32 bit versions of the webtiers things work. When I replace those WebTiers with 64 bit versions I get a 500 - Internal server error. There's no difference in code other than the compile between 32/64 bits. Is there anything I am missing that I should do to use 64 bit versions of the webtiers?

Invalid Pointer Operation in TrsContentProviderViewer

ymakassiouk — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 13:56:40 +0000

Hi. I am trying to make the TrsWebTier work for me. I can see that the report server is being contacted. I am testing with a report that loads successfully to the ClientReport in a Delphi desktop application. But when I access the same report by a URL to an application with TrsWebTier in it, I get an exception (in the web application) which seems to originate in TrsContentProviderViewer.GeneratePage + $95. Looks like it has to do with freeing some Font objects. I trivialized the report completely, just to test: empty template, no data or anything, but even then it throws the same exception. Please, advice! TIA, Yuri Makassiouk System.TObject.FreeInstance System.ErrorAt(2,$408035) System.Error(reInvalidPtr) System.TObject.FreeInstance System._ClassDestroy(???) Vcl.Graphics.TFont.Destroy System.TObject.Free :00408035 TObject.FreeInstance + $11 :00a1aa09 TrsWebContentProviderViewer.GeneratePage + $95 :00a1a77b TrsWebContentProviderViewer.GetReportPage + $7F :00a1a692 TrsWebContentProviderViewer.ProcessRequest + $66 :00a37ff1 TrsWebTier.GenerateContent + $14D :00a375c6 TrsWebTier.ProcessWebRequest + $8E :00a3738c TrsWebTier.ProcessWebRequest + $98 ...

Can Webtier take parameters from Post rather than get?

Taz — Tue, 08 May 2018 15:36:20 +0000

We are using Using version 18.01 Our reporting solution is running into some problems that the webtiers's don't seem to be able to handle. Some of our selections from our web front end generate URL's that are more than 4000 characters long, with the selections that users can make. These then get cutoff as that is the limit of a URL. Can we change things so that the requests are passed in via the POST method? I've had a look around to see if there is any property I'm missing but I can't see anything. Is there some workaround I might be able to do?

Expected date format in search fields

rbuser — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 02:47:15 +0000

Hi, We are using version 17.03. We install the report server and by default it using the Local System account We are trying to figure out how to influence the date format that is used in search values and by default in the reports (if we do not specify another date format) 1- In our previous installation (version 15.02) we could replace the user account that the service was using and the regional date settings of this account was used. This was convenient for our clients 2- We tried to do the same for version 17.03 but is seems that the date format settings of this user are not used. My questions are 1- Which account is used to obtain the date format settings that are using in the search parameters and the report 2- Is it possible to change these settings in any way regards Paul Sjoerdsma

Upgrade From 12.04 to 18.1

rbuser — Wed, 24 May 2017 10:08:45 +0000

Currently using RB 12.04 Server and looking to upgrade to 18.1 and wondering what kind of effort this will take. 1> I have lots of code in RAP. Also heavily use the rsClientRecieveAutoSearchFields to "autofill" report values rather than using the user web interface. Can I expect everything to compile and run as it did in 12.04 ? 2> I'm assuming an 18.1 client can not communicate with a 12.04 client. Is there an easy way for both servers to exist on the same box during a transition? Perhaps a different URL based on the client version? There is likely a white paper someplace I missed on upgrading that I hope someone can point me too. 3> Any advice from users that have done this upgrade? 12.02 to 18.1 server, either in the current version of Delphi (10.2) or in an older version Delphi 2007? Thanks for any help and insight you can provide. Delphi 2007 / Oracle 12c / RB Server 12.04

Date format

rbuser — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 03:41:31 +0000

Hi, We ran into a problem with the date format. When a report is using a searchcriteria with date format we get an error message: '31-12-2013 is not a valid date format (mm-dd-yyyy). So the form is expecting a dateformat mm-dd-yyyy, but we are using dd-mm-yyyy. Is there a way we can configure this? Or what settings is used for this? Thanks. Andre Konijnendijk.

TrsWebTier.GenerateContent: No content provider for reques

rbuser — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 06:30:09 +0000

Hello, We are converting to RbServer 17.03 and want to save output to Excel (xlsx format). In order to get this working we found a post with a an answer from Nard Moseley: "Try adding rsWebAdapterXLSData to the 'uses' of your web tier app. Then use content=XLS If you prefer to use content=XLSData, this requires a simple modification. Modify rsWebAdapterXLSData.pas, the methods ContentType and WebContentType." The first part is working fine. We now get output to Excel. When we modify rsWebAdapterXLSData.pas to use XSData, we get an error: TrsWebTier.GenerateContent: No content provider for reques. Is this setting used to save to xlsx files? Or can you tell me what to use in order to generate xlsx files. Thanks, André Konijnendijk.

RBServer stops responding.

rbuser — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 08:59:45 +0000

Hi, We're using RB 15.05 with Delphi 2009 (hence we can't upgrade). We have our own Windows service which contains a TrsServer component. On starting our service it sets rsServer to active and starts processing reports. For most customers, this works fine, but for one customer only one report (sometimes two or three) is generated and then the server stops responding: the web form that would normally show the parameters or the final report simply shows a circle animation as if it's not responding when a request is made to it. I've added a timer to our own component with an event that runs every minute and writes to a logfile, as a sort of heartbeat so that we can see our windows service is continuing to run, which it is, so it looks like it's the TrsServer itself that has stopped. Do you have any idea why thTrsServer might stop responding to requests? We can't work it out, and we can't work out why it's only for this customer. Any suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks, Steve Branley

No mapping for the Unicode character exists in the target multi-bye code page

rbuser — Tue, 27 Sep 2016 14:01:10 +0000

Hello, When my report have a name with special character occurs a follow error: "No mapping for the Unicode character exists in the target multi-bye code page" Please, any suggestion? Regards, Smokoveck

[RBServer] - Problems with RBServer project

rbuser — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 11:42:24 +0000

Hi, I'm creating a RBServer project and I am with the following problems: - How to translate the filter windows to display the phrases in Portuguese? - I'm using IE and Chrome browser, the two can't show accented words (special a characters) UTF-8 some thing like that, how can I solve this problem? RBServer 16.02 version Best regards. Smokoveck

Custom viewer / toolbar

rbuser — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 07:25:11 +0000

Hello, One think that we are hoping to achieve in our server implementation is, for specific "Quote" reports, something more interactive for the end user who clicks an emailed link to a server run report. Specifically, we would like a way for the user to "accept" a quote, for a button or linked clicked to communicate back with the Webtier so that their response can be then saved in the database being reported on. Ideally a button in the web viewer's toolbar (visible depending on various criterian) would be the best UI for this, so is this doable? It seems as if the server comes mainly with DCUs so not sure where to start. Or would some can't of RAP passthru be a more viable solution, putting a dynamically created hyperlink in the report to click? TIA, Paul.

RB Server 17.02 Delphi Berlin

rbuser — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 02:27:55 +0000

I've just opened the C:\Users\Public\Documents\RBServer\Delphi 10.1 Berlin\Demos\Servers\01. Main project and compiled it. If I try and run under Delphi I get the error First chance exception at $7639DAE8. Exception class EOleRegistrationError with message 'Error creating system registry entry'. Process rbServer.exe (4532) Googling tells me this is probably an access rights issue, so I run the exe (outside of delphi) asAdmin. This starts OK. I point my browser at 127.0.0.1:1333 but nothing happens for about 2 minutes and then the following is displayed XML Parser Error, Line 0: Start tag not found, expected "<" Any idea? TIA, Paul

Printing MAP component on WEB Report

rbuser — Tue, 31 May 2016 16:08:29 +0000

Hi I'm working with GMAP component with RBServer and publishing report in files. The web report works OK with preview but when the PDF is generated, the maps are not shown. What could it be happening? Should I configure something else?. I'm using RBServer 17.02 Thanks Ignacio --- El software de antivirus Avast ha analizado este correo electr?nico en busca de virus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Output to Excel

rbuser — Mon, 09 May 2016 15:54:50 +0000

Hi I've upgraded to RBServer 17.02. I need to know how to output web report based to Excel format. Actually my report has content=PDF. It's just replacing PDF with XLSData in content parameter? --- El software de antivirus Avast ha analizado este correo electr?nico en busca de virus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Pulling reports from a web page link

rbuser — Thu, 21 May 2015 15:06:06 +0000

I have a license for the Server edition, but I have not started working with it yet. I have a newbie question. I have a customer who wants to display his available product line with pictures on the web. Can links on a webpage be directed to preconfigured reports (such as all Idle Items for a certain product line)? Or will it only work in a report explorer tree kind of way? David Miller --

Webtier in Windows 2012 / IIS 8.5

rbuser — Fri, 01 May 2015 08:51:53 +0000

I haven't been able to find any info on configuring IIS 8.5 for the Webteir. The RBWiki shows info for IIS 6&7 but nothing for IIS 8.5. Is there how-to or white paper someplace on IIS 8.5 configuration? Thanks. Delphi 2007 / RB Server 12 / Oracle 11g

Regserver problem

rbuser — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 10:48:11 +0000

I have a couple of Report Builder servers running. On one of my servers, I changed the name of the SQL Server database. I use an ODBC System DSN that is defined for the new database. I wrote an Initialization program where the user defines the DSN used to connect to the new database and the value is written to the registry. My rbServer program has a unit called globals that reads the registry key in it's initialization section. All of the report datamodules assign the database alias in the OnCreate event. This process has worked well for me for years. When I run the rbServer program with no parameters, it works fine. But when I add the "regserver" parameter and try to run it from the Report Builder Administrator, I get an error tone from Windows. The program starts but errors out when trying to run a report. Nothing is written to the rbserver log file or the webtier log file. I'm totally lost as to why this would happen. I'm using Delphi7 with Report Builder 11.07. Thanks, Gary H. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

Call to TrsWebRequest fails with "Invalid session"

rbuser — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 07:39:48 +0000

Hello, I am having a problem handling my webrequest for a report. In short my code: var s: TStringList; req: TrsWebRequest; begin s := TStringlist.create; try req := rsWebTier.CreateWebRequest(s, ''); try // Fill content parameters; req.ContentParameters["name"].Asstring := "val"; // Fill sessionparameters; req.SessionParameters['rosession'].asstring := sessionid; if (rsWebTier.RequiresAutoSearchParameters(Req)) then begin ********************** Exception is thrown: Invalid Session!!!!!! end; finally req.free; end; finally s.Free; end; end; I think the error has something to do with tye SessionParameters['rosession']. Wat code do I need to use to setup an valid session? Thanks André Konijnendijk.

WebTier error

rbuser — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 17:08:01 +0000

Hi I need some help with WebReports. I design my reports with a designer that especialize the OnGetAutoSearchValues property on the report component. When executing the report from the report explorer (desktop application) it works fine but the same report published on the web with a Webtier service, it gives me the error message "EReportLoadFromFileErro Error reading ppReport.OnGetAutoSearchValues: Invalid property value". I couldn´t find where or how to add or set the OnGetAutoSearchValues property in the WebTier. The same message appear with the rbClientExplorer application. I'm using RB Server 14.08 Thanks Ignacio