SubReport - Need to print title and summary - even when no records

rbuser

Hi,

I can't seem to get a subreport to print when there are no records ... not
surprising I guess ! ... I've tried setting the DBPipeline SkipWhenNoRecords
to false but to no avail ... how do I do this ?

Andrew

digitalmetaphors

The subreport is not going to print if there are no detail records, by
default. However, this is controllable with the
Subreport.Report.NoDataBehaviors proeprty. Go into the subreport workspace
in the designer and select the greyed out report icon in the upper left
corner of the workspace, between the rulers. This selects the child report
object. Then go to the object inspector and you should see the
NoDataBehaviors for this child report. Set it to ndBlankReport.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

How do my users who only have the report designer set this property?

TIA,

Paul

digitalmetaphors

You'll have to add a menu item to the designer's menu. Then surface this
property in a custom dialog you'll create which is launched from the menu
item click. See the MergeMenu property of the designer in the RBuilder help
for more information on adding a menu item


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors