2 Reports on 1 page

rbuser

I have been requested to consolidate information for our executives, by
combining multiple reports onto 1 page.
Can you point me in the right direction?

Thanks.

nicocizik

To do this you need to create a new report which has SectionStyle (Set the
PrintBehavior property) subreports in it. Then load each one of your reports
into one of the subreports. Section style subreports always print on a new
page. When you print the main report it will print all of them together as
one report. If you do not want each separate report on a new page, try
using a ChildStyle subreport.

It is possible dynamically create subreports in a detail band and load a
report template into the subreport. There is an example of dynamically
loading a subreport in your installation under
..\Delphi\RBuilder\Demos\EndUser\DynamicSubReportLoading

To create subreports at runtime, here is an example
http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/DynamicSubreportCreation.zip


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rbuser

nicocizik

Hi,

Here is a simple example loading two report templates into ChildStyle
subreports. Remember that ChildStyle subreports do not support a Header or
Footer band so you will either need to use the Title and Summary or create a
group around the report and use the GroupHeaderBand and GroupFooterBand.
Hope this helps.

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/MergeReports.zip

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rbuser

Thanks. I'll study it.

rbuser

I tried to load that project and got a bunch of 'property
OutlineSettings doesn't exist' messages. I'm using ver 6.03 on Delphi 6.
Do I need an update?

Thanks

nicocizik

Hi Douglas,

The Report Outline was added in RB 7. Though we always recommend that you
upgrade to the latest version of ReportBuilder, you should still be able to
run the example I sent by just clicking "Ignore" for all the Outline
messages shown.

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rbuser

OK, I got it to run (sort of), and it looks good. Now I created the
'Hooking Reports with Section-Style Subreports' tutorial project,
replaced the subreports with 2 of mine, and changed 'Section' to 'child'
on both. They both print on 1 page, but they both start at the top of
the page. What am I missing to make one follow the other?

Thanks

nicocizik

Hi Douglas,

Be sure that you have the second subreport set to "ShiftRelativeTo" the
first one. The easiest way to set this is to right click the second
subreport object in the main report and select the ShiftRelativeTo pop-up
menu option.

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rbuser

Bingo! Perfect. Thanks a lot.