Something Missing in Concatenating Fields Tutorial

rbuser

I am trying to work through the RAP tutorials. In the 'Create a DataView'
section it says to open the Report Designer, click on the Data tab and then
select File|New from the menu. I do this and the New Items dialog does
appear. However, there are not any options to select on the dialog. It
appears there must be something wrong with the tutorial. What am I missing?

Thank you!

Gary

nicocizik

Hi Gary,

At design time, by default, the datasettings should be set to the DBDEMOS
database. Try selecting File | Data Settings... and be sure the Session
Type is set to BDESession and Database Name is DBDEMOS.

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

Nico,

Thank you! That allowed me to work through the tutorial. The Session Type,
Database Name and Database Type fields were all blank. Are the defaults set
somewhere? Why would they be blank?

Gary

nicocizik

Hi Gary,

At runtime, they are set in the Designer.DatabaseSettings property, but at
design-time they should already default to the DBDEMOS database unless they
had been changed prior. I'll check the demo and make sure it is configured
correctly.

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

nardmoseley

At Delphi design-time the Designer.DatabaseSettings are loaded/saved from
RBulider.ini.

A step could probably be added to the Developers Guide RAP tutorials to
configure the DataSettings.

The Learning ReportBuilder RAP tutorial includes a stand alone application,
it can be download from the bottom of this page.

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/download/learning_reportbuilder.html


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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors
www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

Nico and Nard,

Thank you for the information. I have downloaded the LearningRAP.exe file
and will look at that also.

Gary