simple cover page subreport blocks printing

rbuser

I have a working report to which I have added a subreport which is to
be a cover page. The subreport is very simple, using only some
TppLabels a TppMemo, and a TWPToolsRichText. No data components.

When I run the report, I am loading content to these components from
data already unpacked into field variables. All of that works.

My problem is that when I call print on the main report, then I get the
file save dialog, and then a dialog which says "Accessing data", and it
never proceeds from there. I have been told by a colleague that there
is some sort of issue he remembers from years ago in connection with a
subreport which has no DB components.

It is rather mystifying. What am I missing? I am on RB 16.02, by the
way. Delphi XE7.

Thanks,

Bill Meyer

rbuser

wmeyer wrote:


Simplifying, I have removed from the subreport all components other
than two lines. I have removed almost all code that affects the
subreport. Apparently, putting a subreport into the TitleBand of my
report and making the TitleBand visible is sufficient to trigger the
problem.

Thanks,

Bill

nicocizik

Hi Bill,

This is not a known issue however it sounds like you are experiencing an
endless page report. Be sure the subreport's AutoStop property is set
to True.

Please create a simple example that demonstrates this behavior that I
can run here and send it in .zip format to support@digital-metaphors.com
and I'll take a look.

rbuser

Nico Cizik (Digital Metaphors) wrote:


Nico, I have worked around this by creating a small dataset for the
subreport. Everything seems to be ok, except that when I look at the
report, the cover page is not produced.

As in all of our other reports, the subreport is placed in the
TitleBand of the main report. I am setting the visibility of the
TitleBand and the subreport in code. The subreport is on its own form
unit, and is instantiated in my code. I then populate in code the
one-record dataset which will fill the cover page.

The report executes as expected, but no cover page is present.

I know at some point I will trip over some single setting somewhere
which I have missed, but am going crazy trying to figure out what it
could be.

Thanks,

Bill

rbuser

Nico Cizik (Digital Metaphors) wrote:


A sample project is in your e-mail.

Thanks,

Bill