Re: Losing report settings

rbuser

Greetings,
D6
RB 6.03

I am dynamically loading reports from our database to subreports that
located in a main report. I have everything work except for the
"ShiftRelativeTo" properties are not being loaded with the rest of the
report. I save the report to an external report (MyReport.txt) and looked at
the objects in the file. The "ShiftRelativeTo=Region4" is located in the
file and everything looks just fine but when the report is loaded, that
property does not load at all.

1. Is there a known bug with the "ShiftRelativeTo" property?
2. How do I debug report builders source code?

Regards,
Tim Armstrong

nicocizik

Hi Tim,

When loading a template to your report, you need to be sure all components
have a unique name. If there is a name conflict such as "Region4" may be,
the RB streaming object will automatically rename the component to another
default name. This is probably why the property is not loading correctly.

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rbuser

Hey Nico,

A good naming convention is always a good programmer practice. However, the
"SaveToDatabase" technique use the real component name (Region4) instead of
the EU define UserName (regMyRegion2). So, the property (ShiftRelativeTo)
will be lost when the "loadfromdatabase" function tries to load Region4
into the report if there is another occurance of Region4(regMyRegion1) prior
to the component named above. I think that this is a bug. Maybe the
"ShiftRelativeTo" function should look that the "UserName" property instead.

Thanks,
Tim

rbuser

I should probably mention another important detail. I create and minipulate
all the reports from within the design mode in my application. I do not have
the option to hit F11 and modify the Object Inspector. My "WorkAround" is to
export the report to a flat file(.rtm). Manually change the real component
name and then reimport the report.

nardmoseley

Currently RB is relying on the Delphi streaming system to resolve most
object references and it is using the Component.Name property to resolve the
references.

We can add your request to the wish list....


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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com