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  • Hi Claude,

    Rebuilding ReportBuilder manually can be tricky and is not recommended or
    supported.

    First try performing a corrupt install cleanup by following the steps
    provided in the following article. Then re-downl…
  • Hi Mike,

    1. Be sure you are using the latest build of ReportBuilder. Try
    re-downloading RB 11.02 and reinstalling (there was a PDF bug fixed for the
    latest build).

    2. If you still get the AV, try setting your lib…
  • Hi Fellipe,

    How are all your reports stored? If they are stored as template files, you
    can use a template event OnLoadEnd to alter the margins of each report just
    after the template is loaded.

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    Regards,
  • Hi Michael,

    For future reference, please use your real name when posting.

    The ReportBuilder barcode component currently only supports the addition of
    a check digit to the UPC-A and EAN13 barcodes. All other check digits …
  • Hi Paul,

    I apologize for the late response.

    Yes it is possible to create, manage, and print/email a report from a consol
    application. You will probably need to disable all form displays before
    printing (i.e. Print D…
  • Hi Tim,

    In my quick testing with buttons on a form using similar code to what you
    have below, I was unable to recreate this behavior. Are you able to
    recreate this with a simple example I could run on my machine? If so,
  • Hi Eric,

    If you are certain of the location of the image, you should be able to use
    the Picture.LoadFromFile method.

    ppImage1.Picture.LoadFromFile('E:\pics\Fam\IMG00244.jpg');

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    Regards,

    Nico …
  • Hi Tim,

    There is now a patch for RB 11.02 that addresses this issue. Send an email
    to support@digital-metaphors.com to receive the patch. Thanks for pointing
    this out.

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    Regards,

    Nico Cizik
  • Hi Jeff,

    In my testing, the only way the top toolbar of the Preview window showed the
    "More Buttons" option was when the width of the window itself was smaller
    than the toolbar. A simple fix would be to be sure the width of t…
  • Hi Ed,

    When the TeeChart package builder crashes, does the entire installation
    program exit? If not, ReportBuilder is installed on your machine but
    TeeChart will not function correctly.

    Once you have ReportBuilder …
  • Hi John,

    Which version of ReportBuilder and Delphi are you using? Are you able to
    recreate this behavior using the Nexus demo located in the \Demos\4. EndUser
    Databases\NexusDB\... directory?

    Other customers that h…
  • Hi Barry,

    By default the Report.DeviceType property is set to "Screen". Setting this
    property to "Printer" will tell the report to print directly to the printer.

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    Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metap…
  • Hi Tim,

    Take a look at the following article and example on creating a spreadsheet
    style report similar to what you describe below.

    in Too many columns to fit on one page. Comment by nicocizik February 2009
  • Hi Benjamin,

    Try setting the TppVariable.Lookahead property to True. This will calculate
    the values during the first pass of the report and display them during the
    second (when the report is actually viewed or printed).
  • Hi Tim,

    Though the DBText object has word wrap capabilities, it is not designed to
    dynamically increase its height. If you would like a vertically growing
    text object, try using the DBMemo or DBRichText components.

  • Hi Tim,

    One option would be to use the Border property of the DBMemo. This will
    draw the border of your choice around the entire printed component. If you
    need to enclose multiple objects within the border along with the mem…
  • Hi Tim,

    When using the technique in the Tech-tip article, you are correct in that
    you are restricted to single page groups. If you need to overflow to
    separate pages, you will need to take a different approach similar to the …
  • Hi Richard,

    After playing around with the Engine.CurrentColumn property a bit, I may
    have found a way to accomplish what you need. Try setting the CurrentColumn
    property to -1 in the GroupFooterBand.AfterGenerate event.
  • Hi Richard,

    The left to right column feature in ReportBuilder is very limited in its
    behavior with groups. If you only need three horizontal columns, you might
    consider creating three separate fixed style subreports, each dis…
  • Hi Tim,

    To access the DBRichText data, you can use the DBRichText.RichText property.
    If you would like to just access the readable text of a RichText component,
    you will need to use the Selection properties and routines. Some…
  • Hi Tim,

    The font is usually embedded in the actual richtext data itself. This can
    be overridden usin the SelAttributes property. Take a look at the
    TppCustomRichText.SelAttributes topic in the ReportBuilder help for more
  • Hello,

    Thank you for considering ReportBuilder!

    I first would recommend you download the trial edition of ReportBuilder
    Enterprise rather than Standard. Enterprise includes all the features of
    Standard as well as o…
  • Hi Patrick,

    The installation of the Advantage DADE plugin should be fairly straight
    forward. If you are receiving an version or "cannot find file" error when
    building the package, you may need to alter the 'requires' clause t…
  • Hi E.C.,

    There is no built in way to alter the order of the file types listbox in the
    print dialog. The devices are ordered based on when they are registered.

    One option would be to create a custom print dialog and chang…
  • Hi Melkor,

    ReportBuilder does not natively include an Excel export device. You may
    want to contact the third party company you bought this device from directly
    and see if they can shed some light on the issue.

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  • Hi,

    For future reference, please use your real name when posting.

    Thanks for pointing this out. We will address this for the next build of
    ReportBuilder.

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    Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Me…
  • Hi Cary,

    We have not made any changes to the RBTeePackageBuilder since the release of
    11.01.

    The RBTeePackageBuilder checks the \KnownPackages\ registry key for a
    "dclteeXX" entry. Once it is found, it strips off …
  • Hi Patrick,

    By default, the RBuilder help will display when selecting the Help Topics
    option in the help menu. You can access the help menu using the following
    method or you can completely replace the Report Explorer like the…
  • Hi Patrick,

    There are many ways of accessing the SQL object, the easiest being through
    the TdaSQLBuilder class. TdaSQLBuilder gives you an easy-to-use wrapper
    around the SQL object which is very complex and difficult to use i…
  • Hi Jeff,

    Sorry, I misunderstood your original question.

    The toolbars in RB 11 are designed to behave similarly to the toobars in
    many Windows applications such as Outlook. These toolbars, by definition,
    always snap…