Title-page

rbuser

Hi all

I have my old end-user report (two pass, D5, RB702, DOA) which has
two tables of contents, one at the beginning, in the title band, and one
in the summary.
All are memos compiled by rap events.
Now our customer asked to put a title-page at the very beginning, a page
which must only contain some labels with fixed text.
To achieve this I thought using a subreport, section style, placed in
the title band before the memos. No dataset at all, only a test label in
the middle.
Is that a good approach?
Sadly when I did that, my memos disappered, and even the label in the
subreport was not printed.
The only thing I got was two blank page at the beginning

nardmoseley

Try the following configuration:

Create a main report with no header or footer, only a detail band. Leave the
datapipeline unassigned. In the detail band place two sectiion style
subreports. Use the first to print the title page. Use the second for the
remaining report. (Or possible use 3 sections, one for the title, one for
the table of contents, and one for the report).

You can easily create the above configuration by saving your existing report
layout to an .rtm file and then reloading it into the child report.




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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

I've tried but the report seems to go in loop.
Suspecting my rap functions I have:
1. commented out every function
2. setted the report one pass

Now when previewing I see the title (first subreport section style no
data pipeline) and then the original report then again the title, the
report. It is a kind of (infinite?) loop.
May is it better to delete (instead of comment out) the RAP methods?

nardmoseley

It should look like this:

main report (datapipeline set to )
section (datapipeline set to )
report (datapipeline connected to master)

When the Report/ChildReport DataPipeline is set to none, RB should
automatically be set to Report.AutoStop True. You might check that this is
the case, if AutoStop is False and there is no data, then the report will
generate pages until you call Report.Stop in an event-handler.



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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser