Drill down info displayed in a new window

rbuser

Hello All,

I am currently using v 7.04 Enterprise. I'm fairly new to Report
Builder, but I have to say that all in all it's a nice product.

However, there is one thing that seems fairly slow to me and that's the
drill down function. When ever you expand a section, it has to go back
thru and re-calc the pages - Which makes sense and I understand. But
for a long report (a few hundred pages), this can be significant.

Here is my question. Is there any way to have the "drill down details"
displayed in a new window? That way, for my report, the user can still
see the details but, they don't have to wait for the recalc of pages.

This maybe possible with my current version, and I've missed it. (?) Or
maybe it's been implemented in a later version. (???)

Thanks in advance and Best Regards,

David Saracini

nicocizik

Hi David,

I'm not sure this will increase the speed any but check out Demo 153 located
in the \RBuilder\Demos\1. Reports\... directory. This demos spawns a new
page for each drilldown link you hit. You might try setting your
Report.PassSetting to psOnePass and see if that speeds things up a bit.

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Regards,

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

rbuser

Hi Nico,

Thanks... I'll look into it. But, just out of curiosity, what do you
think about my idea of having the option to display the drill down
results to a "pop up" window? Do you think this might be something that
you would add to your "wish list" for feature versions?

David

rbuser

Hi David and Nico,

I thought about this feature also often. The reason I would use it is to
connect different reports together by using spawned drill down reports. For
example: One report with the top 50 customers. If the user clicks on a
customer another report is launched with the orders for this customer. If
the user clicks an individual order in this report, a new report is spawned
with the order details.
Connecting the reports should be able with e.g. autosearch fields so it can
be used in RAP aswell.
What do you think about it?

Regards,
Jeroen.

rbuser

Hi Jeroen,

Yeah... I've thought about that too. I would love it.

Really what you are getting into is an HTML (or web) kind of interface
to report. Which is very intuitive to the user (at least one that has
been on the net - which is almost everyone these days). I wrote a
system a while back where I essentially wrote my own report engine to
generate HTML and used a third party HTML viewer control that allowed
you go capture the Hyper link clicks - so you could do this type of
thing. It was VERY slick - and with style sheets you could really make
things look nice. THE PROBLEM???? Page breaks!!! For whatever reason,
HTML/CSS don't handle page break right. So, for some types of reports,
this was a deal breaker.

IMHO, if RB could figure out something like this, they would be WAY
ahead of virtually any other reporting tool.

Best Regards,

David