Message on report while no data is found

rbuser

Hi,

I have generated a report that prints a daily report from a server to the
printer.

I want to print the report even when there is no data. I want to print a
message on paper that there was no data. Just a label or something.

With the standard settings it will print a empty page.

How can I do this?

I am using ReportBuilder 7.01 Enterprise with Delphi 5.0

Thanks in advance and best regards,


Mischa E. J. Hoogendoorn

digitalmetaphors

Use the NoDataBehaviors property on the report in conjunction with the
OnNoData event. See the help topic for more info.


uses
ppDrwCmd;

procedure TForm1.ppReport1NoData(Sender, aDialog: TObject;
var aShowDialog: Boolean; aDrawCommand: TObject;
var aAddDrawCommand: Boolean);
begin

TppDrawText(aDrawCommand).Text := 'No Data';

aAddDrawCommand := True;

end;



Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Jim ,
I have a similar problem with a one-page subreport that occasionally has no
data. I would like to eliminate the printing of this page or at least print
a "No Data" message. I have tried the code suggested here but I always get a
blank page regardless of the code in the NoData procedure. How do you handle
this via the end-user reporting environment? I suspect that I need to set
NoDataBehaviors but do not know how to do this in the end-user reporting
tool.

I have a similar problem with a one-page subreport that occasionally has no
data. I would like to eliminate the printing of this page or at least print
a "No Data" message. I have tried the code suggested here but I always get a
blank page regardless of the code in the NoData procedure. How do you handle
this via the end-user reporting environment? I suspect that I need to set
NoDataBehaviors but do not know how to do this in the end-user reporting
tool. Note I am still using Delphi 5 with RB 6.0.

digitalmetaphors

As an end user, you can't set the no data behaviors if you don't have RAP.
You'll have to create a RAP pass through function(s) to set the
NoDataBehaviors[] set property, as sets aren't supported in RAP. There are
examples of creating RAP pass through functions in the RAP demos and in the
RAP help file.

Outside of the end user environment, if you don't want to preview a page at
all, then you'll have to check to see if you have data before calling
Report.Print. Then selectively call Report.Print or show a message box.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors