Determining User Selection

rbuser

I have a report that prompts the user for a begin and end date and then runs
a query on the database based on those parameters.

However, I want to print those parameters on the report itself so that when
it prints they know what selected range was printed. But I can't figure out
how to get to what they selected in their query. Can anyone help me?

Thanks,

nardmoseley

Report.AutoSearchDescription will return a description of what was entered
or you can use TppReport.GetAutoSearchDescriptionLines to get it a
TStringList.

For an example check out RBuilder\Demos\5. AutoSearch\5. Build Description
of AutoSearch Settings

rbuser

Thanks, that seems to be what I'm looking for, however, I'm trying to
figure out how an end-user is going to utilize this in order to show their
parameters since you don't have full access to coding functions with the
end-user module...

rbuser

I am reviewing the demo but when I type the following line in the end user
Calc tab I get ppreport1 undeclared identifier despite that being the
reports name... I'm adding the code into the
report/beforeautosearchdialogcreate method just like in the demo you pointed
to. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

rbuser

I used the first suggestion and get back a string of the where clause which
is really not what I'm after. I want just the begin and end date that was
entered which it appears the second suggestion would give me. However,
after trying 5 different ways of getting that data it returns nothing. The
last attempt was directly from the demo you pointed me to and consists of a
line as follows:

ppReport1.GetAutoSearchDescriptionLines(ppMemo1.Lines);

where I created a memo field on the report just to see what would show up,
and as with all my other attempts, nothing shows up.

Any suggestions?

thanks,

nardmoseley

- Perhaps you are new to RAP? If so please work thru the RAP related
tutorials in the RB Developers Guide and the Learning ReportBuilder RAP
end-user guide.

- To simply things for end-users, RAP does not use the Delphi Component Name
property, but instead uses the UserName property . The UserName is the name
displayed throughout the report designer. If you look at the report outline
(in Design or in Calc) note that the outline displays something like

Report
|
--- Memo1

Here is an example, the Delphi code (uses the component Name)

ppReport1.GetAutoSearchDescriptionLines(ppMemo1.Lines);

And the same code in RAP (uses the component UserName)

Report.GetAutoSearchDescriptionLines(Memo1.Lines);

- If you want only the Values entered by the user rather than the
description, then iterate over the Report.AutoSearchFields array and access
the Report.AutoSearchFields[].SearchExpression property