Problem with preview in Report Designer

rbuser

Hi,

I am a newbie to Report Builder. I am working with RBPro 7.02, in Delphi 7.
I have an ODAC TOraQuery attached to a TOraDataSource attached to
TppDBPipeline attached to the TPPReport.
When I double-click on TppReport component, the report designer opens... I
add a Label with the Caption "This is the title of the report" but when I go
to the preview tab to see.... the label does not show. I just have a blank
page.
If I go to the Data tab, I do not see the data that my report is attached
to.... I verify that the TOraQuery shows the Active property as being
TRUE...

Help.... I don't seem to be able to get the basics to work...

HDumas

nicocizik

Hello,

The reason you are not seeing the label is either that its bounds are off
the page or your NoDataBehaviors are set to blank page. I would suggest
spending some time reading the ReportBuilder Developer's guide and going
through each tutorial. This will get you acquainted with the ReportBuilder
UI and give you a base for creating reports smoothly and easily. Though it
may take some time to complete, the amount of time it will save you once you
begin developing your application is immeasurable. The developer's guide is
located in the \RBuilder\Developer's Guide\... directory.

--
Regards,

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

rbuser

Hi,

Thank you for this fast response.
I went to the NoDataBehavior property and changed the ndBlankReport to true
and I now I can see my label in the Preview tab in the Report Designer.
And yes, I have read and gone through the tutorials on pages 229-269 in the
Developper's Guide. And since I need to do CrossTab reports, I even went
into the Demos... to see how to change column titles and add some colors...
but the demo seem to have only the reports 121 to 127.... it looks
confusing... and there is not much code to look at.

Thanks again for your help... I will certainly be back to this newsgroup
asking for more help.

HDumas