ppdesigner report perview export function

rbuser

Hi,

We are using the Tppdesigner and associated components to allow users to
create their own reports. That is, the user goes into the reports
designer window to create own report that gets saved to a database. The
standard functions allow the user to email and pring the report. In
previewing a report through the designer to standard print preview form
is displayed.

However, once the user has created a report they want to be able to save
the data in to the report to a CSV or PDF document. What properties in
the designer needs to be set to allow the user to export the data
contained in a report to a file is some format like CSV, PDF or RTF and
have this accessible through in the standard print preview window.

Thanks in advance,
Tim Coates

nardmoseley

- Report.AllowPrintToFile needs to be set to true

- For delimited text files, you need to use the File | PrintToFile setup
dialog in the report designer.

(The above is covered in the RB Developers Guide)

For an end-user application, you need to set default properties for the
reports. To do this implement the Report.Template.OnNew and
Report.Template.OnLoadEnd events to set the default property values for the
report.

(See the RBuilder\Demos\EndUser\ReportExplorer demo for an example of
implementing the Report.Template.OnLoadEnd event)



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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors
www.digital-metaphors.com