Getting crazy with memo fields

rbuser

Hi,

we just reached the limits of QuickReport and are on our way to
use a "real" reporting tool. But the problems we have with our
first steps with report builder are too strange to be real.

Hope that somebody can give us a clue.

1.) As soon as only one element is placed in a detailband
which has not set the ShiftWithParent to TRUE,
a memo-field is simply ignored and not printed at all.
If all other fields ShiftWithParent is set to TRUE,
the memo is printed, but we do not want to have
shifting fields in that case.

2.) In conjunction with the ShiftWithParent-Property
it appears that the detail-band prints into the
pageheader!

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards
Axel

P.S.: We still use the demo 6.03, to try what
report builder can do. Maybe these
are some things the full-version does not
have *hoping*

digitalmetaphors

The best approach to get a feel for using ReportBuilder is to download the
Learning ReportBuilder tutorial from the website
(http://www.digital-metaphors.com). As far as memo fields go, if the memo
could be of random height then the memo should be set to stretch. Also, with
stretchable components it is better to use ShiftRelativeTo. If you have a
number of static components such as Labels or DBTexts you can gather those
using a Region component.

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Cheers,

Alexander Kramnik
Digital Metaphors