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rbuser

I need to know the parent (ie. report parent) of a newly created sub report,
either at the CreateComponent or ValidateComponent time(tppDesigner) as I am
performing some code here that require me knowing the parent at this time.
Unfortunately the ReportParent property is jsut returning null.

Anyone's advice???

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Regards

Conrad Rowlands
Callards Technology Ltd

digitalmetaphors

The parent of a subreport is going to be the band. Access the subreport's
Band property. If you want the TppReport object, access the
Subreport.MainReport property.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

But if the report is a subreport of a subreport then that will not be
correct.....

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Regards

Conrad Rowlands
Callards Technology Ltd

digitalmetaphors

Start an empty project.

Drop a TppReport on a form.

Open the report designer in Delphi.

Drop a TppSubreport in the report in the detail band. This should be called
ppSubreport1.

Go into the workspace of ppSubreport1.

Drop a TppSubreport in the detail band of ppSubreport1. This should be
called ppSubreport2.

Then add a button on the form, an OnClick event handler and code this:

showmessage(ppSubReport2.Parent.ClassName); {TppDetailBand}
showmessage(ppSubReport2.Band.ClassName); {TppDetailBand}
showmessage(ppSubReport2.Report.MainReport.Name); {ppReport1}
showmessage(ppSubReport2.Report.MainReport.ClassName); {TppReport}

The results I get are to the right in the comments.

PpSubreport 2 is parented by ppSubreport1's detail band. Accessing the
MainReport property of the nested ppSubreport2.Report, will return the
TppReport which is ppReport1 on the form.

Does this test fail for you?

Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors