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  • Hi Bjoern,

    What exactly would you like to happen when one of the DBTexts are clicked?
    Inside the OnDrawCommandClick event, you have access to the aDrawCommand
    parameter. You could take a look at the value and determine which …
  • 1. Place a TppRegion inside the detail band. Size it large enough to fit
    all the DBTexts you need.
    2. Place your DBText components inside the Region.
    3. Set the Region's Stretch property to True.
    4. Add the following code (…
  • Hi Deivid,

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

    1. Instead of setting all you DBTexts visible property, you might try
    adding them to a single TppRegion and toggling the …
  • Hi Vanessa,

    As an intermediate step, try getting this query working with an ADO dataset
    and ADO query on a Delphi form. Connect this to a DBGrid to see if the
    query is returning the proper data. Once you get this working co…
  • Hi Alex,

    Thanks for the feedback.

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    Regards,

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

  • Hi Alex,

    This is not a feature that can be turned off for the TextFileDevice. If you
    take a look at the TppTextFileDevice class located in the ppFilDev.pas file
    you will see where this is done inside the SavePageToFile routin…
  • Hi Rob,

    Depending on how big your summary band is, you can define where the top
    position of the summary band will begin using the PrintPosition property.
    So if you are printing to a 8.5 x 11 inch piece of paper with .5 inch
  • Hi Rob,

    You can use the SummaryBand.PrintPosition property to move the summary band
    where you need it on the last page.

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    Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
    in Printing summary on bottom of page Comment by nicocizik July 2007
  • Hi Daniel,

    Yes, it seems you will need to create a new dataset for each product to get
    the effect you are after. Note that the TeeChart component in ReportBuilder
    is simply a wrapper around the actual TChart component in Delp…
  • Hi Daniel,

    It is possible to assign the same pipeline to separate series in a TeeChart.
    If for instance you add two series to a single TeeChart component, you can
    assign the data for each one by clicking on the individual seri…
  • Hi Bjoern,

    Which version of ReportBuilder are you using? For the latest version of
    ReportBuilder (10.06), Views have been included in the GetTableNames routine
    which is where the datadictionary gets its table entries.
  • Hi Bruno,

    You can assign the value of an AutoSearch parameter to a text component
    using the Report.AutoSearchCriteriaByName routine. Once you obtain the
    AutoSearch field, you can use the Value property to get the search value…
  • Hi Alex,

    Unfortunately this is not a feature of ReportBuilder. We will consider
    adding the abiliy to split exported files based on groups for a future
    release.

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    Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital M…
  • Hi Adam,

    For minor alterations, you can access the Preview form using the
    TppReport.PreviewForm property. If you need to completely replace the
    previewer in ReportBuilder, take a look at the following article...

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  • Hi Dietmar,

    I'm a bit unclear about what you would like. Are you trying to access
    certain TeeChart properties from RAP? If a property is unavailable, you can
    create a pass-thru function to access it from Delphi code.
  • You can add TeeChart support at runtime by including ppChrtUI in your uses
    clause. This will enable the TppTeeChart and TppDPTeeChart components to be
    included and edited in the designer at runtime.

    We do not have any end-use…
  • Hi Branden,

    If you would like to use TeeChart 8.x with RB 10.06, please send a small
    email to support@digital-metaphors.com requesting the updated packages and
    files and we'll send them to you asap.

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    Regards…
  • The standard version of TeeChart does not include the ability to edit charts
    at design time in ReportBuilder. The TeeChart editor is available at
    runtime however. See the ReportBuilder help under the ReportBuilder
    Reference | Tee…
  • Hi,

    Thanks for the update. If you continue to have problems, please send a
    small example that demonstrates the issue to support@digital-metaphors.com
    in .zip format and we'll take a look at it for you.

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    Reg…
  • Hi,

    Which version of ReportBuilder and Delphi are you using? Does this occur
    when printing to any printer. If you set your library path to
    \RBuilder\Source and set Delphi to stop on exceptions, are you able to
    determin…
  • Hi Martin,

    There is no built-in way to copy information from the preview to the
    clipboard. Where would you like to paste the report data? One option may
    be to export the data to a text file and copy/paste it from there.
  • Hi Daniel,

    ReportBuilder does use the printer driver to create the preview as well as
    the printed output. If you are getting an endless page behavior, you will
    most likely see it on screen and on paper.

    The next st…
  • Hi Daniel,

    1. You need to be sure your margins are within the range of the specific
    printer you are using. Every printer has an unprintable area (usually 1/4
    inch) around each page. If the margins are smaller than this valu…
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    Article: TroubleShooting: Report Prints Endless Pages
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    Occasionally, we have customers state that their reports are in …
  • Hi Jamie,

    Inside the DetailBand.BeforePrint you could separate the field into two
    strings, then assign each one to a TppLabel placed inside that band.

    Something like the following psudo code...

    procedure Form.D…
  • Hi Leah,

    The ReportBuilder email feature operates on a plugin architecture which will
    connect to various email clients or libraries to send email via SMTP. We
    include three plugins with RB including TppSMTPMapi which will com…
  • Hi Tony,

    Which exact version of ReportBuilder are you using?

    1. Be sure all the Tnx components in the example are active. They will need
    to be in order to function correctly at design time.

    2. Be sure you inst…
  • Andreas,

    Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the issue. Please give me the exact steps I
    can take to recreate the problem on my machine and I'll try it.

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    Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
  • Hi Andreas,

    1. Which version of ReportBuilder are you currently using? In my testing
    with RB 10.06, clicking on either taskbar icon will bring the designer up as
    the focused form.

    2. Since we do not provide the s…
  • Hi Juan,

    Unfortunately we do not have this example available for RB 7.x. You could
    possibly download a trial edition of RB 10.06 to see the example and code.
    Another option would be to take a look at the Custom Dataviews exam…