Is it possible to use the value calculated by a RAP function in a RichText/MailMerge object? The syntax seems to imply that this might be possible but I cannot find anything in the documentation or in the demo programs that demonstrates this.
Unfortunately the MailMerge feature is only designed to handle values taken from a dataset. We have had requests in the past to add an event that allows you to override this behavior and add in your own values for a later release of ReportBuilder. I recommend altering the richtext manually if you need to add your own values. If you do this, note that you will not be able to use MailMerge. See the TppRichText topic in the RBuilder help for information on how to manually edit the richtext text.
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Unfortunately the MailMerge feature is only designed to handle values taken
from a dataset. We have had requests in the past to add an event that
allows you to override this behavior and add in your own values for a later
release of ReportBuilder. I recommend altering the richtext manually if you
need to add your own values. If you do this, note that you will not be able
to use MailMerge. See the TppRichText topic in the RBuilder help for
information on how to manually edit the richtext text.
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Regards,
Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com
Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com
I managed to accomplish what I needed to by adding calculated fields to the
source dataset which calculated the values that I needed.
Dan
Excellent! Keeping data processing local to the dataset always makes for a
happier report.
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Regards,
Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com
Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com