Controlling Copies Of Section Subreports

rbuser

Hi,

V9.02

The way I have the report laid out is with the main having only a detail
band that contains two section subreports. No data pipeline is assigned to
the main and in the BeforePrint event, I toggle the visibility of one or the
other subreport based on the printer name.

When the report is printed, setting the copies to print, through the print
dialogue, to a value other than 1 does not generate multiple copies. Is
there a way to communicate with the section subreport to cause it to print
more than one copy?

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Bob

nicocizik

Hi Bob,

Be sure you have the Subreport.ParentPrinterSetup property set to True and
NewPrintJob set to False. In my testing with these properties set, I was
able to control the number of copies using the print dialog of a section
subreport.

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Regards,

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

rbuser

Nico,

There's the rub.

The reason for using section subreports is to allow for different printer
setups as the output is to either a full-page laser printer or a 3.5"
receipt printer with each subreport formatted appropriately.

Oddly, if I choose to collate the output, even with ParentPrinterSetup set
to false, the correct number of copies is generated by the section
subreports. Does this make sense or have I made a mistake in my
application?

I was looking for and did not find, a property that I could check from the
subreport that would tell me the number of copies specified.
Report.PrinterSetup.Copies is always 1 and no similar property appears to
exist for subreports. When the print behaviour is pbChild or pbFixed this
is not an issue, but for pbSection it may be valuable to have PrinterSetup
accessible to RAP.

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Bob

nicocizik

Hi Bob,

If you set the ParentPrintSetup property to False for the TppSubreport
object inside the main report, the section subreport will then use its own
printe setup. You can access its individual printer setup by tabbing over
to the subreport's design.


Try using TppSubreport.Report.PrinteSetup.Copies. This should be available
in RAP.

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Regards,

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