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  • There is now a patch available for RB 11.06 that solves this issue. Please
    send a request to support@digital-metaphors.com if you would like the patch.

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    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    in A bug with the grouping feature Comment by nicocizik November 2009
  • Hi Steve,

    The built-in PDF device does not currently support unicode text. As a
    workaround, you can place all unicode text into a TppRichText component and
    set the TppPDFSettings.ExportRTFAsBitmap property to True. This will…
  • Hi Fillipe,

    The group footer and the page footer are separate bands, one cannot display
    inside the other. It is possible however to align the group footer to the
    bottom of the page using the following technique.

  • Hi Scott,

    Yes, this is correct.

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

  • Hi Scott,

    It is necessary for a dtString type variable to call its Compute routine
    when the page starts to cover a number of special cases (one being retaining
    the proper text as the report is paged backward). In order to cov…
  • Hi Scott,

    This is functioning as designed. The OnCalc event of a String variable will
    fire differently than one with a numeric type. Basically if you are making
    numeric calculations, you need to be sure the TppVariable is se…
  • Hi Michael,

    Yes! RB 11 introduced the Hyperlink, HyperlinkColor, and HyperlinkEnabled
    properties for labels and DBText components. Simply begin tying a valid web
    address or email and the component will automatically detect th…
  • Hi Corrado,

    This is not a known issue. If you trace into the RBuilder source where the
    exception is thrown, is the code being executed correctly?

    Rather than moving through the pipeline manually, a better method would be…
  • Hi JL,

    There should be no need to take care of this manually. One option is to
    place a TppRegion inside the detailband and set the KeepTogether property of
    the region to True. Then place all existing components into the regi…
  • Hi jl,

    I'm a bit unclear about what you are trying to accomplish. If you would
    like to break to a new page after a group has finished, you can simply set
    the group to start on a new page with the NewPage property. The only r…
  • Hi Willie,

    Are you building with packages? Did you try building with the RB source?
    Are you able to create a simple application with a report and a crosstab?

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    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors…
  • Hi Willie,

    The TppGrandTotal class is declared in the ppCTMain.pas file. You might try
    changing your library path to point toward \RBuilder\Source\ and see if that
    helps the issue. Otherwise, you may have a corrupt installat…
  • Hi Max,

    Looking at the changes you made, you are correct that the TppSystemVariable
    probably should not be added to the calc order. I will change this in our
    source and it will be included in the next release.

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  • Hi Jesus,

    Any drawcommand can be main "clickable" by implementing the
    OnDrawCommandClick event. This allows you to customize what happens when a
    user clicks a link in a report.

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    Nico Ciz…
  • Hi Jesus,

    Remember that the ability to open anything other than a hyperlink when
    clicking a report component is not a built-in feature of ReportBuilder.

    You can implement the OnDrawCommandClick event using RAP if you are …
  • Hi Jesus,

    You can use the OnDrawCommandClick event of any report component to make it
    clickable in the preview window. This allows you to fully customize what
    happens when a components is clicked.

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  • Hi Andrew,

    Thanks for performing the tests. My first suggestion would be to try to
    "shrink" each large image before adding to to the report. ReportBuilder is
    not designed to be an advanced image processor. It primarily uses…
  • Hi Andrew,

    As a test, try embedding these images into a test report and loading it
    locally (no database interaction) to see how long it takes to preview/print.
    If this increases the performance, we can narrow down the issue to…
  • Hi Andrew,

    Which version of ReportBuilder and Delphi are you currently using? Are
    these images being embedded into the report definition or are they being
    retrieved from a database/file?

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  • Hi Mark,

    Sorry, I'm still a bit unclear about what is happening.

    The example simply prints each page to memory, then loops backward through
    them and sends each one individually to the device. This should be fairly
  • Hi Mark,

    I'm a bit unclear about what is happening. Are you using the method
    described in the following article?

    in Printing a report backwards Comment by nicocizik November 2009
  • Hi Bob,

    This is not a known issue with RB 10. My first suggestion would be to try
    commenting out all your event code and re-running the report. If this
    helps, then periodically begin adding the code back to isolate the issue…
  • Hi Chus,

    In my testing with stored procedures and parameters with Interbase,
    everything seems to function as expected. You will want to continue to use
    the ":Param" syntax. ReportBuilder parses the SQL code and simply replac…
  • Hi Mike,

    If you double click on the pipeline after connecting it to the datasource
    are the fields present? Are you sure all the proper connections are made
    between the dataset, datasource, pipeline and report?

    Are …
  • Hi Mike,

    From the data tab of the designer, you can right click over the data view
    (the box that represents your query) and select "delete" to remove it from
    your project.

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    Regards,

    Nico Cizik
  • Hi Jianfei,

    This is not a known issue with RB 11. ReportBuilder simply takes the data
    it is given by the dataset and displays it one record at a time. Try
    connecting a DBGrid to your dataset and see if the same data is being…
  • Hi Ueliton,

    Please send a simple example demonstrating the issue that I can run on my
    machine to support@digital-metaphors.com in .zip format and I'll take a look
    at it for you.

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    Regards,

    Nico Ci…
  • Hi Ueliton,

    This is not a known issue with migrating to RB 11. Were these dates saved
    down as Autosearch values in the Template? If so, try viewing the template
    as text and see if the dates are still present. Is the upgrade…
  • Hi Whitney,

    For a master detail report, you want to be sure that you first order the
    detail dataset by the linking field, then by any other fields you need in
    order. Take a look at the following article on the fundamentals of…
  • Try to find the differences between your machines that may be causing the
    issue. At what point does the error occur? Are they able to print the
    report directly without previewing?

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    Regards,

    Nico Cizik