Two pass for groups?

rbuser

Hello,

I want to print a report with a lot of records in the dataset. Each
record in the dataset is printed in an own group and each group starts
on a new page and has one up to four pages. For each group I want to
print the absolute number of pages for this group. For that reason I has
to use twopass to get to total number of pages of a group. Because of
the number of records in the dataset the report needs several hours for
the first pass so it takes several hours before the first page is
printed. Is there a possibility to calculate the absolute number of
pages of a group, print the pages and then go to the next group, or in
other words do a twopass on groups. To calculate the absolute number of
pages of a group it would be enough to look only at this group.

Cheers,
Edwin

digitalmetaphors

What is the user's requirements? Can this report run in a timed process at
3 am? It could be written to Archive file and then the users can use the
ArchiveReader component to instantaneously preview and print the report
because the pages have already been generated.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

It would be much better if the report starts printing immediately in some way.
Is there
maybe a possibilty with RAP? I found no solution so far.

Edwin

digitalmetaphors

Sorry, until the report has finished generation, the previewer won't allow
you to traverse through the pages, and no pages will be sent to the printer
until then.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors