2 subreports?

rbuser

i need help to create a report with 3 tables involved...

table A should be used to control the flow of the report and for a header on
the page, for each record on table A, i need to find all the record on table
B and all the records on table C...

all the reports found on table B, should be printed on the left side of the
report, all the records on table C should be printed on the right side of
the report....

how can i do this?


TIA

nardmoseley

Master with two details that listed side by side. There is an example of
this in RBuilder\Demos\Reports\Demo.dpr, number 73 (dm0073.pas).

1. Define the linking relationship.

See article below.

2. Define the report layout

- main report connected to the master pipeline
- add two subreports, set ParentWidth to false and size the width
- set them side by side


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Tech Tip: Linking SQL Queries for Master/Detail Data
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The following example shows two options for linking SQL queries to create a
master/detail relationship.

In this example, we are using Delphi's DBDemos data to create a
Customer/Order relationship. Thus we wish to link the Orders detail to the
Customer master.

I. Delphi Query Linking
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a. Set the detail TQuery.DataSource property to point to the master
query's TDataSource component.

b. In the SQL "Where" clause for the detail query use a ':' followed by
the linking field name from the master:

example
select *
from orders
where orders.CustNo = :CustNo

Now each time the master record position changes, the detail query will
automatically be refreshed with the correct result set.


II. RB DataPipeline Linking
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a. Set the detail DataPipeline.MasterDataPipeline to point to the master
DataPipeline.

b. Use the detail DataPipeline.MasterFieldLinks property to define the
linking relationship

c. In the SQL for the detail, retrieve all records and sort them by the
linking master field:

select *
from Orders
order by CustNo


Notes:

1. Using RB DataPipeline, each query is executed only a single time - thus
performance is much faster.

2. RB Professional and Enterprise Editions include a visual Data environment
for creating SQL queries, defining linking relationships, and creating
Ask-At-Runtime parameters. Using the RB tools you could create the above
linked queries in about 10 seconds.


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