OnCustomSaveDoc

rbuser

?Hello,

I'm using RB11.01 with Delphi 7 and we've extended EndUsr to make a custom
Designer.

The issue I'm having is that I can't get the OnCustomSaveDoc event to
fire. From what I've read, just having events assigned to that should fire
them, but we have a method assigned to it and it's never getting fired.

Thanks



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nicocizik

Hi Yottskry,

Are you able to recreate this with one of the end-user demos located in the
\RBuilder\Demos\3. EndUser\... directory? In my quick testing, the
OnCustomSaveDoc event fired successfully when trying to save a report.

What customizations are you making to the designer?

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Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
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rbuser

Hi Nico,

Seems OK on the others. We don't really make many customisations to the
designer, other than the addition of some 'register' statements to make it
a design time component available on a pallette and the addition of three
new 'show...' methods: 'ShowQueryWizard', 'ShowReportWizard' and
'ShowPageSetup'.

What I can say, from tracing through, is that the 'SetOnCustomSaveDoc'
method IS being called and it in turn calls:

FDesignerWindow.EventHub.EndUserEvents.mcCustomSaveDoc.AddNotify(ehLayoutManager_CustomSaveDoc).

However the ehLayoutManager_CustomSaveDoc method itself is never called.

Thanks,

Steve




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rbuser

Having looked a second time, I'm not sure that this particular event is
the problem. On RB7 the report is saved to database (table is called
REPORTS_USERS, field is called REPORT) and that has nothing to do with
OnCustomSaveDoc, it seems to get saved as soon as the report designer
becomes visible. Perhaps I'm missing something in the set up in RB11? What
do I need to have set for the report to save itself or in other words, how
do I go about getting a report to save to database once the user has made
some changes or when the window is closed?

Thanks



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nicocizik

Hi,

Try setting the Report.SaveAsTemplate property to True. This will ask the
user if he/she would like to save if the report has been altered.

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
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rbuser

Well...now it gives me a ETemplateLoadError and refuses to create my form!

There must be something changed in the way RB11 loads its end user forms
to the way RB7 did it, because I have the exact same properties set on our
EU implementation as we had for RB7, but that works and this doesn't...

On the report->template we have databasesettings->pipeline (and all other
values) as blank. Template->Format is stASCII, Template->SaveTo is stFILE.
I realise those last two seem counterintuitive when we want to save to
database, but that's how they're set on the old version - the values we
want are set at run time. I think maybe RB11 and RB7 do something subtle
in a different order.



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rbuser

This is infuriating! It's going off and doing its own thing before the
form that owns my custom report designer gets its FormCreate method
called! It's also giving me ETemplateLoadError despite the fact that I
haven't told it to load a template, haven't given it a template name and
haven't even connected it to a pipeline!

Help!



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nardmoseley

Open the .dfm file and modify the property setting for Report.SaveAsTemplate
to False. Then save. Now try opening the .pas file.

I recommend setting Report.SaveAsTemplate at False for design-time, then set
it to True in code like this...

myReport.SaveAsTemplte := True;
myDesigner.ShowModal;




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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors
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