End user reporting

rbuser

I created a sime ppReport and added a ppDesigner to the form. I then called
ppDesigner.Show.

Is this what I can expect the user to see when designing reports? The
following questions occur to me.

1) There is no object inspector, how can a user edit Font settings etc?
2) The existing data-aware items show the data instead of the fieldnames
(like at design time), can I change this behaviour because often the data
has NULL in it.
3) Can I replace the Open/Save menu items, or at the very least remove them?


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nicocizik

Hi Peter,

1. ReportBuilder 9 or higher includes an Object Inspector-like feature
attached to the Report Tree. To access the report tree select the View
| ToolBars | Report Tree option from the main menu in the designer.

2. This is the normal behavior of the end-user designer.
Unfortunately there is no automatic way to turn this wysiwyg feature
off. You can see the field being used by clicking on the DBText object
and looking at the combo boxes at the top of the designer. Good
suggestion for a later release however.

3. You can access the menu of the designer using the Designer.Menu
property.

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