printing a header page

rbuser

hi,
i need to do the following

i'm printing a page of information per product per store where the product
is sold
now all the pages are printed in order of store - product
the customer wants me to print a kinda header page so they know when one
store starts and another begins

so something like

'this is for store A' - 1 page
product page 1
product page 2
'this is for store B' - 1 page
product page 1
product page 2

all this info is pulled in in 1 dataset so there is store info and product
info in 1 record

i guess i'll have to use grouping for this so what i need is that when the
group header is printed that the detail following the group will be printed
on a new page (the group itself has a pagebreak option)

can this be done?
(using RB7 Ent)

tia,
marc

nicocizik

Hi Marc,

One option is to consider upgrading to RB 9.02. RB 9 introduced the
PageBreak object that allows you to force a page break where ever you need
on your report.

You may also try placing Sectiong style subreports inside the group header
to force a new page.

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Regards,

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

rbuser

oh well....

ordered (finally)!

quick question, all my reports are 7.04 format now, will upgrading run
smoothly or do i have to take some precautions
i have very large and complex reports lying around and i *do not* want to
mess them up
tia,
marc

nicocizik

Hi Marc,

We do not know of any major issues when upgrading your reports from 7.04 to
9.02. A couple things to be aware of...

The design control archetecture has been enhanced so any custom components
you were using in RB 7.04 such as RBAddon, RotatedText, or your own
creations will not initially work. Unfortunately there is no update for
RBAddon, however there is one for RotatedText available from our web site.
Below is an article explaining the archetecture changes.

If you have any problems upgrading, feel free to ask me, I'm here to help
.

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Article: RB 9 Architecture Changes
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ReportBuilder 9 includes architecture changes to more cleanly separate
Designer code from Report code. The code related to component popup menus
and design controls has been broken out into separate classes.

For an example, check out RBuilder\Demos\RCL.


The myChkBox.pas unit contains the component classes....


TppCustomComponent

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TMyCustomCheckBox

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|-- TmyCheckBox
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|-- TmyDBCheckBox


The myChkBoxDesign.pas unit contains popup menu and design control classes.
These are compiled into a separate package.


A. Popup Menu classes....

TppComponentPopupMenu

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TmyCustomCheckBoxPopupMenu

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|-- TmyCheckBoxPopupMenu
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|-- TmyDBCheckBoxPopupMenu


B. Design Control classes.....



TmyCustomCheckBoxControl

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TmyCustomCheckBoxPopupMenu

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|-- TmyCheckBoxControl
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|-- TmyDBCheckBoxControl


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Regards,

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

rbuser

Nico,

i do not use rbaddon nor rotatedtext (which is now a standard component
right?)
we do have a bunch of own rb components so i'll see where that ends, in case
of difficulties i'll post again

another important question, we do have *a lot* of custom autosearch forms,
derived from tppcustomautosearchform, will those migrate or not?

cu
marc

nicocizik

Hi Marc,

Your custom AutoSearch forms should migrate without any problems. This
architecture has not been altered.

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Regards,

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