New Fields Not In DataPipeLine In D5 IDE

rbuser

Hello All:

Within the Delphi 5/ReportBuilder 6.02 IDE, we cannot get new fields to
show up in the BDEpipeline. Our PipeLine has the persistent fields loaded.

We are adding calculated fields to our DBISAM table. However, the
additional fields are not showing up in the PipeLine in the IDE.

How do we get these new fields into the PipeLine in the IDE ??? Right
now, we need to click addfields and add them one at a time ( error prone and
time consuming ). Is there another way to accomplish this task ???


Thank you.


Neil Huhta
Profit Monster Data Systems LLC





Neil Huhta

digitalmetaphors

You can delete the pipeline and drop a new one on the form. The fields
should be automatically recreated when it is connected to the dataset. That
would be the quickest way to make sure that it gets all the fields.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Jim:

I need a different answer because deleting the pipeline also causes the
dbtext and other components to lose their pipeline settings. This creates
more work than manually adding the fields.

We have 3 or so pipelines on each report. 2 of them have new fields
being added regularly - mostly calculated fields.

My forms people are not sophisticated so manually adding fields is prone
to creating errors.

Would it be reasonable/practical to build a pipeline decendent with a
refreshfields method ??? If so, how would I start ???

What other ideas do you have ???

Is there a way to prevent the components from losing their pipeline
settings when the pipeline is redone ???

Thank you.


Neil Huhta

rbuser

Hi Neil,

if you don't use the form as report storage then no component will lose the
pipeline settings.
But if you uses the form as storage (I don't recommend that), I would simply
copy the report definition out from the DFM, rebuild the pipeline and
exchange the report definition with the backup copy.

HTH,
Chris Ueberall;

digitalmetaphors

You need to set ParentDataPipeline to true on the data aware components in
the report. This way the data pipeline assignment will be automatically
hooked back up to each data aware control when you reconnect the data
pipeline to the report.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Guys:

I like the idea or re-refreshing the report components from the rtm
file. That would allow us to re-create the pipelines.


Neil Huhta