Global Constants

rbuser

All,

I want to be able to add a report title and summary to all my reports. I
think the way to do it is to add global constants with this information in.
(Could be way off track here. Please advise.)

How then do I get at the global constants from delphi at runtime with a
dynamically loaded report?

TIV,

Paul.

rbuser

Hi Paul,

use a JITPipeline for general informations.

HTH,
Chris Ueberall;

rbuser

Chris,

Either I have not understood your answer, or you have misunderstood my
question. The global constant is declared inside the report. I want to be
able to extract this.

Regards,

Paul

rbuser

Hi Paul,

If I understood you right, your problem isn't accessing ReportBuilder's global constants rather than supporting all reports with data from your application (-> ' I want to be able to add a report title and summary to all my reports'). the latter could be solved in using JITPipeline.

regards,
Chris Ueberall;

rbuser

Chris,

My apologies, I couldn't have explained myself very well. I want to be able
to store a report title and an report summary with the report. Then when I
use and explorer type interface, I want to be able to load the report and
display this information in my explorer before the report is run.

I decided that possibly the way to do this was to store this information in
Global constants declared within the report. I then could not work out how
to load the report and retrieve these constant values from the report.

Since I sent my original post I have worked out that I can write the
following:

TraCodeModule(ppReport1.CodeModule).Programs.Constants[0].AsString

However, I would like to be able to do something like
TraCodeModule(ppReport1.CodeModule).Programs.ConstantByName('REPORT_TITLE').
AsString;

Is this possible or am I attacking this problem from entirely the wrong
angle?

I hope this is clearer.

Regards,

Paul.

rbuser

Paul,

to use the storage of a report template you can use the property 'TppCustomTemplate.Offset' to define extra space.
See tech tip 'Tech Tip: Storing Custom Information with Templates'

regards,
Chris Ueberall;