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Can I use ReportBuilder?

rbuserrbuser
edited April 2003 in General
Hello!

I'm currently trying out ReportBuilder and I have a couple of questions:

1) As far as I can determine ReportBuilder relies heavily on components.
Master-detail relations can for instance only be defined using the
properties on corresponding components (TDataSet descendants). Is this
really true? In my application everything is encapsulated in a TDataSet
object and I have as such no way to get the MasterSource properties.

2) Nevertheless I have created a simple master-detail report (just testing)
and it works except for the fact that the detail-repords are not sorted the
way I want. Is there a way to sort the detail-records in ReportBuilder even
though I have no index on the fields in my DataSet?

Regards,
Erik F. Andersen

Comments

  • rbuserrbuser
    edited April 2003
    > 2) Nevertheless I have created a simple master-detail report (just
    testing)
    the
    even

    The data must be sorted outside of the report. I would consider using one of
    several things:

    a) TppJITPipelines and do the sorting yourself (this is not nearly as
    difficult as it sounds and will add the highest level of flexibility). To
    experiment, drop a JIT pipeline on your form, double click on it and add the
    fields. If you use this method create a temporary data-storage class
    structure.

    b) Use a 3rd party in-memory dataset for indexing. There are several
    excellent ones avaiable: if you own any Developer's Express
    (www.devexpress.com) components, they have a dataset that doesn't take much
    time to learn. kbm (www.components4developers.com) has a free one but it is
    a bit more complicated then the former one.

    Ed Dressel
    Team DM
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