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Something Missing in Concatenating Fields Tutorial

edited April 2009 in RAP
I am trying to work through the RAP tutorials. In the 'Create a DataView'
section it says to open the Report Designer, click on the Data tab and then
select File|New from the menu. I do this and the New Items dialog does
appear. However, there are not any options to select on the dialog. It
appears there must be something wrong with the tutorial. What am I missing?

Thank you!

Gary

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  • edited April 2009
    Hi Gary,

    At design time, by default, the datasettings should be set to the DBDEMOS
    database. Try selecting File | Data Settings... and be sure the Session
    Type is set to BDESession and Database Name is DBDEMOS.

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    Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com

    Best Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com
  • edited April 2009
    Nico,

    Thank you! That allowed me to work through the tutorial. The Session Type,
    Database Name and Database Type fields were all blank. Are the defaults set
    somewhere? Why would they be blank?

    Gary


  • edited April 2009
    Hi Gary,

    At runtime, they are set in the Designer.DatabaseSettings property, but at
    design-time they should already default to the DBDEMOS database unless they
    had been changed prior. I'll check the demo and make sure it is configured
    correctly.

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    Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com

    Best Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    http://www.digital-metaphors.com
  • edited April 2009

    At Delphi design-time the Designer.DatabaseSettings are loaded/saved from
    RBulider.ini.

    A step could probably be added to the Developers Guide RAP tutorials to
    configure the DataSettings.

    The Learning ReportBuilder RAP tutorial includes a stand alone application,
    it can be download from the bottom of this page.

    http://www.digital-metaphors.com/download/learning_reportbuilder.html


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    Nard Moseley
    Digital Metaphors
    www.digital-metaphors.com

    Best regards,

    Nard Moseley
    Digital Metaphors
    www.digital-metaphors.com
  • edited April 2009
    Nico and Nard,

    Thank you for the information. I have downloaded the LearningRAP.exe file
    and will look at that also.

    Gary


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