Explorer Folder and Item Key Value Types

rbuser

?First, I love RB. You make me look great!

I do, however, have a request:

Please make the FolderID, ParentID, and ItemID field types either
variants or of a user-definable type. I have a database that holds
report for the explorer, and this database is replicated. We use GUIDs
(stored as 38-character strings) as our key values so that we don't have
key conflicts when replicating data inserted in other databases. It
seems, however, that the FolderID and ItemID definitions are hard-coded
as integers and this design crosses more than just ppReportExplorer --
it is also in ppTmplat.TppTemplateDBSettings as well.

I think that variants are the best approach as they will minimize the
impact on your existing code (based on my cursory examination).

Thanks.

Louis Kleiman
SSTMS, Inc.

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nicocizik

Hi Louis,

Thank you for the suggestion. We will take a look at the possibility of
adding the ability to define the field type of these fields for a later
release of ReportBuilder.

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com