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  • Hi Alex,

    You need to add ppChrtUI to your uses clause to enable the edit menu option.
    Take a look at the following article on the registration of components in
    the end-user environment.

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  • Hi Ennio,

    If the Customer, Name is located in a different table, you could either join
    the two tables in a Query or you could link the two tables in Master-Detail
    relationship and display the name from the separate pipeline. …
  • Hi Stephen,

    Try using the TppMemo.OnPrint event to access the text inside that memo.
    There it would be possible to send that text to a word counting routine and
    display that value inside another component on your report such a…
  • Hi Stephen,

    What are you ultimately trying to accomplish. It would be possible to get
    the word count from the DBMemo object however this would have to be after
    the memo has been generated so if you plan to move report items a…
  • Hi Amenti,

    ReportBuilder does not have any built-in features that allow a user to alter
    a database. As I mentioned before, it is designed to view and print data
    that has already been created and manipulated. You may be able …
  • How would you like your users to alter the data? Where are you retrieving
    data for the report? Even if the data is not in a database, you could still
    use the AutoSearch feature with JITPipelines to alter the data and
    regenerate t…
  • Hi,

    What type of interactivity would you like to give you users? The Preview
    window is designed to just be a viewer of a generated report. This is
    comparable to Acrobat Reader. It is possible to allow your users to alter
  • Hi Frank,

    Thanks for the info. There is now a patch available that solves this issue.
    Please send a small email to support@digital-metaphors.com requesting the
    patch and we'll send it to you as soon as possible.

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  • Hi Frank,

    The change to how the GlobalOnCreate event in RAP behaves was made on
    purpose due to the overwhelming feedback from our users that this event was
    firing too often. The GlobalOnCreate event is now designed to fire on…
  • Hi Ennio,

    A fixed subreport will print the objects that fit within the size of the
    subreport component on the main form. You may need to stretch the actual
    subreport component size to match 1/2 the page to see the subreport <…
  • Hi Ennio,

    If you are printing two separate reports on a single page, try using two
    Fixed style subreports in the detail band of the main report. Each fixed
    subreport will represent the separate reports. If this is a copy of …
  • Hi Jack,

    There is no built-in component that will automatically print text in this
    manner. One option would be to use a short TppMemo object with one letter
    on each line of the memo. Another would be to place six single lett…
  • Hi Ennio,

    Before the text prints, perhaps in the Band.BeforePrint event, you can check
    the current field value of a dataset and toggle the visibility of the text
    object based on that value using the Visible property.

  • Hi Ennio,

    There is no feature that will automatically merge a DBRichText with a
    DBText, however ReportBuilder does include the Mail Merge feature that can
    be used with a normal TppRichText component. This would be a matter of…
  • Hi Ennio,

    I'm a bit unclear about what you would like to accomplish. Do you want to
    add the text from a DBText component to a DBRichText component or the other
    way around? Text can be added to a RichText component using the…
  • Hi Ennio,

    The easiest way to automatically add all the fields to a pipeline at
    designtime is to delete the pipeline and re-add it to the form. If you add
    fields to your dataset manually after the pipeline has been created, yo…
  • Hi Warren,

    This error indicates that you are trying to compile your application with an
    older compiled file (.dcu) or package (.bpl) in your library path. Check
    your Delphi library path and be sure you are not pointing toward…
  • Hi Dmitry,

    Excellent! Glad you got it working.

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    Regards,

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

  • Hi Dmitry,

    ReportBuilder does not have any built-in features to handle a report like
    this. My first suggestion would be to take a look at the Calendar option of
    TeeChart and be sure it can't be used in your case. If not, you…
  • Bruno,

    This issue was fixed for the next release of ReportBuilder. Please upgrade
    your version to RB 9.03 and test with that. Contact
    info@digital-metaphors.com with your serial number and purchasing email
    address for …
  • Hello,

    Placing two section subreports in the detail band of a main report will
    print one report after the other. One option would be to toggle the
    visibility of each subreport based on which one you would like to print.
  • The easiest way would be to save your two current reports that you would
    like to merge as report templates on your hard drive. Then you can manually
    load these templates into the subreport design. Simply place the subreport
    on yo…
  • Hi,

    For future reference, we prefer you use your real name when posting to these
    newsgroups.

    The easiest way to print two reports as one is to create a single main
    report containing only a detail band. Inside the d…
  • Hi,

    Be sure you have properly created the end user database in your Oracle
    database using the CreateEndUserTables.sql file.

    As a new user, I would strongly recommend considering a different connection
    option to BDE …
  • Hi Sven,

    One option would be to add a TppPageBreak component below your last chart
    and then continue to create charts below that effectively creating them on
    the next page.

    Another would be to connect your report to…
  • Hi Steve,

    Try placing a TppVariable inside your summary band that calculates on the
    Group End. Then inside the OnCalc event, increment the value of the
    variable. This will accurately give you a count of groups at the end of …
  • Hi Frederic,

    The MAPI plugin now looks at the UserName property to define which profile
    you are to use when accessing your email client. If this property is left
    empty the default profile will be used automatically. (I belie…
  • Hi Stuart,

    If the subreport component on the main for for instance is 5 inches wide,
    but the columns inside the subreport (subreport design) span out 6 inches,
    one full inch is going to be cut off when you print the report. U…
  • Hi Stuart,

    Be sure that the boundaries inside the subreport design coencide with the
    boundaries you set for it in the main report. If these do not match up, you
    will either have missing components as you do with your fixed su…
  • Hi Arno,

    Sorry for the delay in this response.

    I'm a bit unclear about your group setup below. Could you perhaps provide a
    real-world example I could see? Are you using Groups in ReportBuilder to
    try to get this e…