Printing to file

rbuser

Hi!

I would like to print couple of reports as a single printing job because I
do not want any other jobs to be inserted between series of documents. Is
there any direct way to do it?

One obvious way is to save printouts to the same file by appending one by
one and then spawn the whole batch. Can I do it in RB?

Thank for any feedback

Irek

nicocizik

Hi Irek,

The best way to do this would be to load your reports dynamically at runtime
into a single report using Section style subreports. Then you will only
need to print once. Below is a small article explaining how to create
subreports dynamically.

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TECH TIP: Creating a SubReport in Code
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A subreport is comprised of two objects:

1. SubReport control
The subreport control is added to a band of the
'parent' report. It has properties such as
ShiftRelativeTo, PrintBehavior, etc.
In the Report Designer, the subreport is drawn
as a rectangle.


2. ChildReport
The child report is a descendant of CustomReport and has
most of the same properties as a standard Report.
The child report has a separate layout workspace in the report
designer that is accessible by selecting the tabs at the bottom
of the designer.




When dynamically creating a subreport in code you need to
create the subreport and the underlying child report.
The subreport.Report property can then be used to access
the child report.

This is demonstrated in the following example:




var
lSubReport: TppSubReport;
lReport: TppChildReport;
lLabel: TppLabel;
lDBText: TppDBText;


begin

lSubReport := TppSubReport.Create(Self);

{add to the main report's detail band}
lSubReport.Band := ppReport1.DetailBand;

{create the child report (parameters: main report) }
lSubReport.CreateReport(ppReport1);

lReport := TppChildReport(lSubReport.Report);

{assign a datapipeline}
lReport.DataPipeline := plCustomers;

{create the default set of bands}
lReport.CreateDefaultBands;

lLabel := TppLabel.Create(Self);
lLabel.Band := lReport.TitleBand;
lLabel.Caption := 'Customers';

lLabel.Font.Name := 'Times New Roman';
lLabel.Font.Size := 24;

lDBText := TppDBText.Create(Self);
lDBText.Band := lReport.DetailBand;
lDBText.DataPipeline := plCustomers;
lDBText.DataField := 'CustNo';

lDBText.Color := clYellow;
lDBText.Font.Name := 'Times New Roman';
lDBText.Font.Size := 12;



end;

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