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  • Hi Chantal,

    We haven't seen this behavior before. If you print directly from your
    delphi app (rather than preview first) do you still get the same incorrect
    output? Usually when the printed output does not match the previewe…
  • Hi Luke,

    This is not a known issue/bug with ReportBuilder nor am I able to recreate
    it here on my machine(s). Are you able to recreate this behavior with the
    latest version of ReportBuilder? If so, please provide me with the…
  • Hi Luke,

    Unfortunately we do not know of any tools that will parse and syncronize the
    Delphi dfm and pas files. After a quick search through some of the Borland
    newsgroups it seems most people are using the TParser class to d…
  • Hi Luke,

    If you create a new report from scratch do the subreport components get
    defined?

    The format differences between RB7 and RB10 simply deal with the added
    features (properties not present in RB7). This will n…
  • Hi Luke,

    I'm unsure why some of these components were not defined when the report was
    created. First note that if you are using Child style subreports, the
    header and footer bands are not supported. The Detail, Title, and Su…
  • Hi Annette,

    This is not a known issue with ReportBuilder. Are you able to recreate this
    behavior in a simple application I could run on my machine? If so, please
    send the example to support@digital-metaphors.com in .zip form…
  • Hi Marcels.

    Thank you for trying ReportBuilder!

    Section subreports by definition will start printing on their own page.
    They are generally meant to make it easier to combine numerous single
    reports into one report. …
  • Hi Martin,

    This is working as designed. Bring To Front indicates that the component
    will be printed on top (in front) of every other component in the band,
    therefore it will be generated last. Think of it in terms of printin…
  • Hi Martin,

    Chantal is correct. If you are using Child subreports, you can use the
    ShiftRelativeTo property to determine which subreports print in which order.
    If you are using Section style subreports, you will need to adjust…
  • Hi Martin,

    Thanks for pointing this out. This is an issue with the design-time
    designer only and will be fixed for the next release of ReportBuilder.

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    Regards,

    Nico Cizik
    Digital Metaphors
  • Hi Wayne,

    If you are getting blank pages, the section subreports are causing them so
    using them is not an option. If you need to break a page before and after a
    subreport prints, you can set the group in the main report to st…
  • Hi Wayne,

    Which version of ReportBuilder and Delphi are you using?

    Section subreports are primarily used to combine multiple full reports into
    one. By definition they will take their own page to start and end which is
  • Hi Patrick,

    Try setting the ShiftRelativeTo property of the second subreport so they do
    not overlap.

    ReportBuilder simply traverses the data you give it. If you are only seeing
    one row, this is most likely the only…
  • Hi Patrick,

    Yes, so in your case you would need a master dataset containing only
    distinct values of x, and in your detail dataset(s), you would need all
    values of x sorted on x.

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    Nico Ciz…
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  • I forgot, a passthru function would also work here as well.

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    Nico Cizik
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  • Hi Paul,

    Unfortunately since RAP does not support sets, you will either need to set
    the NoDataBehaviors in Delphi code or from the designer. Otherwise you
    would need to add some custom RTTI to the TppCustomReport class to all…
  • Hi Paul,

    In this case, you need to set the NoDataBehaviors property of the
    subreport/report to ndBlankReport. This can be done in the designer using
    the object inspector so there is no need to use RAP.

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    Reg…
  • Hi Paul,

    Yes, you need to make sure the SkipWhenNoRecords property is set to False
    for the detail pipeline of your report. This option can also be set by
    double clicking on the link between two dataviews in DADE.

    -…
  • Hi Jianfei,

    PrintToDevices does not initialize any parameters and gives you complete
    control over which dialogs are shown. If you would like to print directly
    to the printer or another device, you can simply change the
  • Hi Jianfei,

    Are you able to recreate this using the End User example located in the
    \RBuilder\Demos\End User\... directory? If you save the template to file,
    then reload it, do you get the same behavior?

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    R…
  • Hi Macko,

    LeftToRight columns in ReportBuilder do not support a dynamic height detail
    band. This is most likely why you are only seeing one record per subreport.
    One option would be to use TopToBottm columns or manually incre…
  • Hi Macko,

    Which version of ReportBuilder and Delphi are you using?

    Which report has the columns, the subreport or the main report? What type
    of subreport are you using (i.e. Child, Section, Fixed)? Are you using
    L…
  • Hi Jeremy,

    This is not a known issue. Which version of ReportBuilder and Delphi are
    you using? Are you able to recreate this with a simple example I could run
    on my machine? If so, please send the example in .zip format to …
  • Hi Ricardo,

    Yes I received your email and sent a reply. I am not able to extract .rar
    archives. Please resend the example in .zip format and I'll take a look at
    it for you.

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    Regards,

    Nico Cizik<…
  • Hi Ricardo,

    I'm sorry but I still do not understand what you are trying to accomplish.
    Perhaps if you send me an example of what you would like your report to look
    like to support@digital-metaphors.com I will be able to better…
  • Hi Ricardo,

    For future reference, please send all examples and attachments to
    support@digital-metaphors.com.

    I'm not sure I understand what you mean by printing the same person in the
    same page. In the example I se…
  • Hi Ricardo,

    I created the following example to show what I meant. This report does
    exactly what you describe below only I limited the number of details in the
    subreport to 3. The rest of the entire report is printed on each …
  • Hi Ricardo,

    In my testing placing a group around each subreport did the trick. Simply
    create a group based on the master field in the main report and in the group
    dialog, set the Create New Page option to true.

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