How make Detail Invisible but calculated?

rbuser

I have a an end user report that generates many (sometimes hundreds)
pages of detail, but generally my end-users will only want the final
summary band info which gives totals by month based on the detail.

So when the user in RAP exercises the option of setting:

Report.Detail.Visible:= False (in DetailBeforePrint)

Then the summary calculations are not made and have all zero values!
Perhaps my summary calculations need to be in a different event handler?
They work fine now, placed in DetailBeforeGenerate

TIA,

Scott Stalheim

nardmoseley

1. You need to use a TppVariable and the TppVariable.OnCalc event to perform
calculations. Please see the Calculations thread of the Tech Tips newsgroup
for some general guidelines. There is a Calculations tutorial in the
Developers and some Calculations examples in RBuilder\Demos\RAP

2. Another approach is to use a Summary query, rather than setting the
detailband.Visible to False.



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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors Corporation
www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

Use the DetailBandBeforePrint event to do the calculations and not the
DetailBandBeforeGenerate as the DetailBandBeforeGenerate event does not get
called if the Detail.Visible = False however the DetailBandBeforePrint event
does get called regardless of the Detail.Visible setting.

Scott Rowat
CommonGoals Software

rbuser

Scott Rowat wrote:

Thanks. Worked great!

Scott Stalheim