Linking with an existing report

rbuser

Hello!

How do I do to link my Delphi form with an existing report, allowing the
user to click under PRINT and, doing this, launch the RB Preview Form of a
specific report?

Thanks

Giovani Marinho

digitalmetaphors

Where is the report located? If it is on another form, then you will want to
create the form (if it is not auto-created) and reference the report object
on the other form. Use the form unit in the uses clause. See out main
reports demo application for an example of using form based reporting to
manage the reports.

If you have saved reports in report templates, then you have templates
located in either files or in a database. See the Template topics in teh
help file for more information. You can call Report.TEmplate.LoadFromFile to
load a tempalte from a file. You can configure the
Report.Template.DatabaseSettings to point to the pipeline where the
templates are located in a dataset. Then call
Report.Template.LoadFromDatabase. The report can be used to store the
calculations (RAP, ie. the Calc tab) and data access components (DADE, ie.
the Data tab). This way the report tempalte becomes fully portable and
doesn't tie the report to a unit where the event handlers and the data
access components are located.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors