Displaying Autosearch values when using Report Explorer

rbuser

Hi all. I need to be able to display autosearch criteria in all reports.
My application uses the Report Explorer to allow users to create and modify
reports. Anyone know of a way I can display the autosearch values on any
report that a user opens?

Thanks!

digitalmetaphors

Use a memo control and call Report.GetAutosearchDescriptionLines. It is
documented in the help file. There is also a demo in the main autosearch
demos folder of the RBuilder installation that uses this to display the
criteria values entered at the top of the report.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Thanks Jim. I have seen that demo, but I am confused as to how to apply
this logic to the Report Explorer and it's reports. I have enabled the
report explorer similar to the demo for that.

digitalmetaphors

Where do you want the memo to be displayed? Ususally it will be in the title
or summary bands. So, if none of your reports have one of these bands, then
it should be easy to create that band dynamically and create a memo in it
and assign it to an event handler on your form. Most likely you have reports
with these bands already defined, or your users have created them, so, there
needs to be another alternative. You can create a page object before the
report prints. Then create a draw command that contains the text of the auto
search description lines. Here is an exampleof adding autosearch description
lines when printing to the printer:

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/AddPageObjectForEndUser.zip


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors