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Problems with Dataviews

edited February 2002 in General
We have recently upgraded from RB 5.55 to 6.03. None of our reports work.
I have found that if I create a new report and drop a DBText on the report I
have some choices in my dropdown menu's even though I don't specify a
dataview on the data tab...

What is going on?

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Matt Schuknecht

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  • edited February 2002
    Is this at Delphi design time or at run time? Sounds like the report's
    datapipeline has become disconnected. Make sure that the Report | Data menu
    option has a datapipeline selected. You may want to try completely
    uninstalling RB, to make sure that all old RB files are deleted from your
    machine, then try reinstalling RB.

    Run the uninstall program

    1. Exit Delphi, and all other applications. You should have no applications
    running except the uninstall, otherwise you may lose some of your work.

    2. Select Start | Settings | Control Panel from your Windows desktop.

    3. Double-click the Add/Remove programs icon.

    4. Locate the version of ReportBuilder you wish uninstall and double-click
    it.

    5. The first page of the Uninstall Wizard allows you to choose between an
    Automatic or Custom uninstall. Choose Custom and click the Next button.

    6. Click the Select All button, then the Next button. Repeat these steps
    until you reach the last page of the wizard.

    7. Click the Finish button. All of the items you selected will be removed
    from the system.

    8. After all the ReportBuilder files are removed, you may be prompted to
    reboot the system. If this is the case, reboot the system.


    Delete the ReportBuilder root directory (and all subdirectories)

    1. Using the Windows Explorer, locate the ReportBuilder root directory. The
    default directory is:

    C:\Program Files\Borland\DelphiX\RBuilder

    2. Once you have located this directory, inspect it. If you have any custom
    work in this directory which you would like to keep, move it to another
    directory.

    3. Delete the ReportBuilder root directory.


    Delete all remaining ReportBuilder files

    1. Using the Windows Explorer, search the entire hard drive for all
    occurrences of:

    dclRB*.bpl
    dclRB*.dcp
    rb*.bpl
    rb*.dcp

    2. Delete any occurrences which correspond to the version you are removing.
    All packages are named with the convention NN, where the first number
    is the ReportBuilder version and the second number is the Delphi version.
    Thus, a typical package name for Delphi 5 would be rbRCL45.bpl. The same
    package for Delphi 4 would be: rbRCL44.bpl. Check Installing ReportBuilder
    for a list of the packages associated with each version.

    3. Using the Windows Explorer, search your hard drive for all occurrences
    of:

    pp*.*
    da*.*
    ra*.*

    4. These are the prefixes used by individual ReportBuilder units. 'pp' is
    used for ReportBuilder units, 'da' is used for DADE units, and 'ra' is used
    for RAP units. Depending on which ReportBuilder you have (Standard,
    Professional or Enterprise) you may not have all of these unit types.



    Additional Notes

    1. Never have Delphi running when installing ReportBuilder.

    2. All ReportBuilder related files should be stored in the root directory
    $(DELPHI)\RBuilder.

    3. All ReportBuilder run-time packages should be stored in the
    Windows\System directory.

    4. You should never have ReportBuilder files in Delphi\Lib, Delphi\Bin or
    Delphi\Projects\Bpl.

    Cheers,

    Jim Bennett
    Digital Metaphors

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