Suggestion for Report Explorer.

rbuser

Hi Guys,

It is often the case that a new report is required that is similar to an
existing report with some minor changes.

It would be handy in Report Explorer if there was a Copy/Paste function that
allowed you to copy/paste an existing report.

Thoughts/comments??

Regards,

Ian

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nardmoseley

- I will add this to the list of requested features

- An alternative is to load the report and use File | Save As from the
report designer.

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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors
www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

The good news is that you can extend the report explorer yourself,
there is a great example of a customer report explorer in the tutorials
directory (...\Tutorials\Complete\II. Applications\04. End-User with
Custom Explorer).

Your suggestion is something we implemented using a few simple
functions as a right-click menu option.

Another couple of customizations we added were:

* The addition of a security attribute to the rb_items table so that
reports are selctively available to users.

* The concept of a read-only attribute on a report. This allows
certain reports to be distributed to users thatr cannot be changed.
They can be copied and pasted (thus the need for copy/paste) with the
new copy of the report not in a read-only state. This allows us to
have the confidence that the core reports we distribute will still
work, but also allows end users to benefit from the building blocks of
an existing report.

rbuser

Bob McClintock wrote:

HI Bob,

Thanks for the reply. I have considered this route but specifically for
setting some report entries in the tree as read-only so their name and position
couldn't be changed so that end users couldn't 'accidentaly' change their name
and make them inaccessable to the application. It wouldn't stop them from
editing the actual report though.

Regards,

Ian



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rbuser

Nard Moseley (Digital Metaphors) wrote:


HI Nard,

Thanks for that, It was just a convenience thought. Alternative already in
use.

Regards,

Ian

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