Columnar subreport no longer works after upgrading to RB6

rbuser

After upgrading RB from 5.56 to 6.0, a report with a columnar subreport that
prints left-to-right no longer works correctly. It works if there are 4 or
less records in the subreport's pipeline, but, if there are more than 4
records, the next region on the report writes on top of the subreport. All
subreports and regions are connected with 'ShiftRelativeTo'. If I change the
subreport layout to top-to-bottom, all the records print correctly (except
they're not in columns, of course).

System details:
OS: Windows NT
RB 6.0
Delphi 5
DOA (Direct Oracle Access)
Reports are stored in the database.
The problem exists no matter which printer I choose.

digitalmetaphors

What does you report look like exactly? The basic left to right generation
appears to be working correctly when I create them. Perhaps I don't have it
setup just like yours, with the regions and ShiftRelativeTo. Could you
provide a simple demo to support@digital-metaphors.com or descirbe you
layout in detail in order to get this behavior?


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Thanks, I'll try to recreate it as simply as possible at home this evening
and email it to support. Meanwhile, I reverted to 5.56 here at work for the
production version.

rbuser

I just sent an example to support. But FYI, I just duplicated it very easily
here at home using the dbdemos database. Here are the steps to reproduce it:

1. In the designer|data tab, create a table with 'Customer', and another
with 'Orders'. Link Orders.Custno with Customer.Custno.
2. In the designer set the data pipeline to Customer.
3. Drop a region on the form. Drop a label on it and caption it 'Region1'.
4. Drop a subreport on the form and set it relative the region.
5. Drop another region on the form and shift relative to the subreport.
6. Move to the subreport page and set the data pipeline to Orders. Set the
page layout to 3 columns. Drop a dbtext on it and set it to Order.Orderno.

Preview the report and you'll see that on most of the pages, region2 shifts
relative to region1, printing right on top of the subreport data. This
worked correctly in 5.56.

Thanks,

Don S.