Multiple reports

rbuser

I'm using 9.x w/Delphi 7.

I have a lot of experience with Report builder as long as I'm doing simple
things. My current problem is just over my head.

I have multiple reports that the end user needs to "page" through. These
reports can also be views separately. The way they are set up right now the
user sees the first report in the Print Preview window, then has to click on
the "Close" button and the Print Preview window opens with the next report.
I want to have a window (form) with a next and previous button or a page
control so the user can easily go from one to the other.

What is the easiest way to do this?

Thanks,

Mike

nicocizik

Hi Mike,

You have a few options.

1. Create a new report with only a detail band. Then place multiple
Section Style subreports inside the detail band and load each individual
report template into each of these subreports. Then based on which reports
the user would like to see, simply toggle the visibility of each subreport.

2. Similarly, take a look at the Spawned Drilldown example (153) located in
the \RBuilder\Demos\1. Reports\... directory. You could do something like
this to give your users an advanced navigation UI inside the report.

3. There is a third party archive merging utility available from our web
site that will merge multiple archive files into one which then can be
printed as a single report. This may be another option you could explore.
The merge utility (kuRAFMerge) can be downloaded from the following page...

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/download/report_component_library.html

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Regards,

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