Changing Paper Source inside a report

rbuser

Hi,

I have a user printing a letter. They would like the first page of the
letter to come from one paper bin (with letterhead paper) and the
second to come from another. There is a letter printed to each
of their customers.

Is there a way inside a detail band to change the bin? Could I do
it with rap or do I need a passthough?. Where would it go? I
know I can put in a sub-report and start that on a new page.

Thanks,
Joseph Gordon

nardmoseley

See article below for how to do this with Delphi code. To use RAP code you
will need to implement a pass through functinon and call it from the
Report.OnStartPage event in RAP.


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Tech Tip: Selecting Paper Bins for Each Page
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Sometimes you may want to print the first page of a report to the
manual bin and then print the remaining pages to the default bin.

You can use the Report.OnStartPage event to set the bin for any page.


Example:

procedure TForm1.ppReport1OnStartPageEvent(Sender:TObject);
var
lsBinName: String;

begin

if ppReport1.AbsolutePageNo = 1 then
lsBinName := ppReport1.PrinterSetup.BinNames[3]
else
lsBinName := ppReport1.PrinterSetup.BinNames[1];


ppReport1.Engine.Page.PrinterSetup.BinName := lsBinName;


end;



Note: The above example assumes the manual bin is 4th in the list (remember
its a 0 based index). To account for different print drivers, you could
search for the 'manual' bin in code by performing a search on the printer's
available bin names:

for liBin := 0 to ppReport1.PrinterSetup.BinNames.Count-1 do
if Pos('manual', ppReport1.PrinterSetup.BinNames[liBin]) > 0 then
begin
lsBinName := ppReport1.PrinterSetup.BinNames[liBin];
break;

end;


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