RB7 wish

rbuser

Hi, the only wish and thing i miss of QR is the formula editor of the
calculated fields. Is it possible to evaluate having a more powerful
editor for DbCalc fields in RB7?
thanks a lot

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Guillermo Castaño Acevedo
Gerente de Sistemas - Grupo Millennium Ltda
GuillermoC@GrupoMillennium.com
www.GrupoMillennium.com

rbuser

Another wish would be the ability to put Regions into Regions as a child.


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digitalmetaphors

There is RAP, which allows you to be able to write pascal like code for all
event handlers in the report and it will be saved as part of the report
template (.rtm). Instead of using a DBCalc component, use a Variable
component and code its OnCalc event handler. You can also add you own
functions to the RAP workspace for your end users. RAP is only available
with RB Enterprise.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

"Jim Bennett (Digital Metaphors)"

rbuser

I Agree...
returning to the RB editor. You can create a formula dragging fields and
having something like:
(SUM(Field1)/Avg(Field2))*Count(Field1) or something like that. My only
complain is that DBVariables are limited to simple calculations (COUNT,
SUM, etc unless you code them ot use variables) and you can't put formulas
into them. It makes a lot easier to have sumaries.
That's all.

digitalmetaphors

Good points. The immediate fix would be to write your own custom component
that does this for your end users.

There is an example of writing code that writes a RAP program in the
installed RAP demos. You could create your own calc component that when
right clicked over in the end user designer, it would launch a dialog that
you could drag pipeline fields into a formula workspace. Then you could
generate the RAP code to execute this formula behind the scenes in RAP for
the end users so that they would never have to know what the Calc tab is or
have to use parentheses:)


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Hi,

What i really would like to see it's some kind of reusability of the
reports, like Nevrona does. For example for an aplication with many reports,
to have the common header or footer in one report or kind of template and
use it for the other reports would be very nice.

Thanks,
Carlos Macao

rbuser

There are a variety of ways to accomplish this. You can place subreports
into your header/footer bands and dynamically load them. There's also a demo
of custom subreports which load themselves for just this purpose in
\RBuilder\Demos\3. EndUser\5. Dynamic Subreport Loading.


Robert Leahey
Thoughtsmithy
robert@leahey.com