Re: Merge Reports

rbuser

D6.02 RB.6.03

Hi there

I am trying to merge a number of separate reports into one report (which is
displayed on screen), without the use of subreports. ie

I found the link :-
http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/CachePagesAndSendToScreen.zip

which works great.

However, there are 2 problems :-

1. The preview window is not modal. When I change it to modal, the report
does not work correctly. Is there anyway to have the preview modal?
2. When I click the PRINT button in the preview window, it does not spool
the report out to the printer. Do I need to manually setup the
TppPrinterDevice?

Do you have a detailed help manual which explains the 'in-depths' of
ReportBuilder eg How exactly the publisher etc work.??

Thanks Jen

nicocizik

Hi Jen,

I'm not quite sure who coded this example initially for you and I'm not sure
what they had in mind when they did. It's literally not intended to do
anything except view a merged report on screen in a modal preview. Sorry
about that. I went ahead and re-coded it the way it should have been in the
first place .

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/CachePagesAndSendToScreen.zip

On a side note: After working with the above example, I would definitely
not recommend using that method to merge reports. A couple other options
you might consider... (more stable, easier to understand, etc.)

1. Archive Merge Utility: One of our customers developed a utility that
will automatically merge any number of Report Archives into one. Many of
our other customers use this utiliy successfully to create single a single
report archive out of many existing archives to print. If you would like to
try this free utility, please send an email requesting it to
support@digital-metaphors.com.

2. Subreport Reference: The example below shows how to merge two reports
using dynamic subreports in a single new report. The example is advanced in
that all the subreports are created in code, but this is purely optional. I
feel this method is far more stable and easier to understand than the
initial example.

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/SubReference.zip
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