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edited December 2005 in End User
hi all,
i posting something like this before but i cannot find the original message
and i have some new data. I have a stored procedure that i have to pass in
parameters into. I am using version 7.02 and do not have Delphi. I havce to
ask for the year and the month from the user but i cannot find any settings
that will let me do this. I have tried the things that were suggested to me
from the last post but i think that they were for a later version than the
one i have. the data part of the report gets the date fine (i have hard
coded the parameters in for the time being). in the layout side of things i
have 3 tabs, the first one is calc but in the help file that i downloaded it
is called something else, the name escapes me right now, and using the
wizards etc do not give me the option to create custom queries to ask the
user for the information. i hope that i have explained everything fully,
please let me know if you need more data.
Cheers
Mark

Comments

  • edited December 2005
    Hi Mark,

    ReportBuilder currently does not natively support Stored Procedures. It is
    possible to create a custom dataview to enable this type of dataset. Are
    you using a registered version of ReportBuilder or an application that has
    ReportBuilder built-in?

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  • edited December 2005
    Nico,
    Its a program that has ReportBuilder built in. i can specify the data
    section seperately, either an SQL statement that i type in or a stored
    procedure. this returns the data fine as when i am in the layout section,
    this is where i see ReportBuilder itself, i can see the data returned and
    group it etc.
    Cheers
    Mark

  • edited December 2005
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