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edited October 2002 in General
Hi,

How can I set the MasterFieldLinks property from an TppJITPipeline in run
time?

Thanks
Marina

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  • edited October 2002
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    Tech Tip: Define Master/Detail DataPipeline Links in Code
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    Defining a Master/Detail relationship for a DataPipeline
    requires that the detail pipeline have the
    following properties defined:

    1. MasterDataPipeline

    2. MasterFieldLinks


    At Delphi design-time you can use the object inspector
    and the DataPipeline's FieldLinks editor to define
    the master/detail relationship.


    The following example illustrates how to define the
    master/detail relationship dynamically at run-time.


    var
    lFieldLink: TppMasterFieldLink;


    begin

    {define the master/detail pipeline relationship}
    plDetail.MasterDataPipeline := plMaster;

    {create a new field link }
    lFieldLink := TppMasterFieldLink.Create(nil);

    lFieldLink.Parent := plDetail;

    {assign the detail field name}
    lFieldLink.DetailFieldName := 'CustNo';

    {assign the master field name}
    lFieldLink.MasterFieldName := 'CustNo';


    end;


    Note: The DataPipeline linking requires the records in the detail dataset to
    be ordered by the linking fields. In the above example, the detail data must
    be ordered by CustNo.


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  • edited October 2002
    I did like this example, but I have another problem now: the report list all
    records from subreport's Pipeline. The subreport ignores the key from main
    report. Infinite pages with a last record from main report is showing.
    How can I do?

    Thanks


  • edited October 2002
    Take your report and get it working by building the links at Delphi design
    time. Make sure this is the only change. I know you probably have other
    code configuring this report, so leave that alone. Just move the link
    creation to Delphi design time. Once that is working, then try to build the
    links at runtime. Maybe that will help? There are master detail JIT
    pipeline examples in the main reports demo project that you can reference to
    test your code on.


    Cheers,

    Jim Bennett
    Digital Metaphors

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