Can't find check box to change TppGroup.ReprintOnSubsequentColumns property

rbuser

Hi,

I failed for looking the check box to change
TppGroup.ReprintOnSubsequentColumns property. I must update that property
via RAP in end user designer, but I am not set it up in the end user
designed. Please add the possibility to select group in the Object browser
and then show the groups properties in the object inspector. This is not
possible in the current version 12.03 - I would say that this is small bug.
If I click on the group object the group's header is shown in Object
inspector.

Petr.

nicocizik

Hi Petr,

Which version of Delphi are you using? In my testing with Delphi 2010 and
ReportBuilder 12.03, selecting the Group from the Report Tree properly gives
me access to all the group properties in the built-in inspector. It is also
possible to adjust these properties using the Groups dialog.



Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

Hi,

I have app built with Delphi 2010. I captured video how RB works here. You
can download it from http://www.dosli.cz/soubory/rb.zip. Sorry for the low
quality video. But you can see that I am using 12.03. And I am not able to
show group properties inside build in Object inspector and also you can see
that I have no ReprintOnSubsequentColumns option in the group settings
dialog at all. :-(

I am using RB at runtime - no inside Delphi IDE.

Petr.


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Hi Petr,

Which version of Delphi are you using? In my testing with Delphi 2010 and
ReportBuilder 12.03, selecting the Group from the Report Tree properly gives
me access to all the group properties in the built-in inspector. It is also
possible to adjust these properties using the Groups dialog.



Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

nicocizik

Hi Petr,

Which edition of ReportBuilder are you using? I made the exact test you did
and selecting the group from the report tree correctly updated the object
inspector (at runtime). Try re-downloading and re-installing ReportBuilder
and see if that helps the issue.

The reason you are not seeing the checkbox to Reprint on subsequent columns
inside the Group Dialog is that your report does not contain any columns .


Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

Hi,

I am using RB Enterprise version, I will try to update the installation and
will report back.

About the options in group dialog. Hmmm, ok I understand now. :-) But can
this be changed? Optionally?

Let me explain:
We have in our system 4 different reports for one content. 1 column, 2
columns, 3 columns version and special version with welcome page and table
of content. In the new update we are working on new report, which can handle
all of these four reports in one. You introduced anchor property which help
us a lot :-). So in our application the user just click on the button print,
little dialog with few options appear (1, 2, 3 column, Print welcome page,
Print TOC) and then we propagate these options to the report.

The report is designed as 1 column report (quite complicated report with
more than 8 subreports and many RAP code to controll the flow of the
generation) and in the creation of the report we just update its properties
with the RAP code. And here is the problem, I spended more then three hours
to find out, why is everything OK in one column report, but in two and three
columns version are the captions (group captions) repeated on the top of
each column. I was looking inside group settings and there were no
ReprintOnSubsequentColumns option so I have no idea that the property
exists. I never edited report with more than one column. So maybe just
disable that check box, but don't hide it.

Maybe there are other options which are hidden this way and I missed them
:-).

With regards

Petr Slipek.



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Hi Petr,

Which edition of ReportBuilder are you using? I made the exact test you did
and selecting the group from the report tree correctly updated the object
inspector (at runtime). Try re-downloading and re-installing ReportBuilder
and see if that helps the issue.

The reason you are not seeing the checkbox to Reprint on subsequent columns
inside the Group Dialog is that your report does not contain any columns .


Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

nicocizik

Hi Petr,

If you are changing the columns manually (in code), why not simply change
the Group properties in code as well?

It is possible to create a custom groups dialog that removes the restriction
of there being columns present to show the Reprint ... option. This would
be the simple matter of copying the existing code (ppGrpDlg.pas), renaming
the class, changing the code located in the "ReportAssigned" routine, and
registering the new form. See the following article.

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/rbWiki/Plugins/Dialogs/Replaceable_Dialogs

Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com
"Petr Slípek" wrote in message news:4d546537@mail....

Hi,

I am using RB Enterprise version, I will try to update the installation and
will report back.

About the options in group dialog. Hmmm, ok I understand now. :-) But can
this be changed? Optionally?

Let me explain:
We have in our system 4 different reports for one content. 1 column, 2
columns, 3 columns version and special version with welcome page and table
of content. In the new update we are working on new report, which can handle
all of these four reports in one. You introduced anchor property which help
us a lot :-). So in our application the user just click on the button print,
little dialog with few options appear (1, 2, 3 column, Print welcome page,
Print TOC) and then we propagate these options to the report.

The report is designed as 1 column report (quite complicated report with
more than 8 subreports and many RAP code to controll the flow of the
generation) and in the creation of the report we just update its properties
with the RAP code. And here is the problem, I spended more then three hours
to find out, why is everything OK in one column report, but in two and three
columns version are the captions (group captions) repeated on the top of
each column. I was looking inside group settings and there were no
ReprintOnSubsequentColumns option so I have no idea that the property
exists. I never edited report with more than one column. So maybe just
disable that check box, but don't hide it.

Maybe there are other options which are hidden this way and I missed them
:-).

With regards

Petr Slipek.



"Nico Cizik (Digital Metaphors)" píše v diskusním príspevku
news:4d541229$1@mail....

Hi Petr,

Which edition of ReportBuilder are you using? I made the exact test you did
and selecting the group from the report tree correctly updated the object
inspector (at runtime). Try re-downloading and re-installing ReportBuilder
and see if that helps the issue.

The reason you are not seeing the checkbox to Reprint on subsequent columns
inside the Group Dialog is that your report does not contain any columns .


Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com