ADOConnection and Report Designer!

rbuser

Hallo,

I have two questions.
1)
How can I read from ADOConnection the DatabaseType and add it to property
from Designer ppDesigner.DataSettings.DatabaseType?
2)
I'm writting PassThrough function to get the AutoSearchDescription from
Report.
The trouble that I get is how to get the access to Report if I don't want to
write function with delivery from Report parameter
(not like "function GetSearchCondition(ppReport: TppReport): String;", but
rather "function GetSearchCondition: String;")
and further problem is, what if I have subreport. How can I differ between
subreport and mainreport in this case.

Greetings,
Stasa

digitalmetaphors

1. I would try to parse out the provider entry in the connection string.
The provider is going to be different for each of the ADO drivers. For
example on my machine, if I connect to MS SQL Server using the OLE DB
provider, the provider is called SQLOLEDB. If I connect to Oracle using the
OLE DB provider it is called MSDAORA.

2. You can call Report.GetAutosearchDescriptionLines in RAP.

If you don't want to pass the report as a parameter, then you'll have to
connect the RAP pass through functions to the report by using a global
delphi variable that points to the TppReport on the form where the templates
are loaded. If you only have one TppReport in your application, then there
should be no problems, otherwise, you have to remember to switch the pass
through functions (well, switch the report that the global variable is
pointing to anyway) to use the active TppReport object that the user is
using.

Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors