Can I Hide AllowPrintToFile, E-Mail Setting and PDfSettings in the designer?

rbuser

ReportBuilder 10.02
Delphi 6 Update Pack 2

Hi,

I've just upgraded to RB10 from 7.02 and I have a new problem because of the
object inspector in the designer.
It's a wonderfull thing, but it opens the report to the user so he can
override all the properties of the report.
If I want the user to design the report, but I don't want him to change
AllowPrintToFile, E-Mail Settings and PDfSettings I cannot.
Is it true?

In a End User solution how can I prevent the user to change these
properties?
Is it possible to Hide them in the object inspector?

Thank you in advance.
Massimiliano Trezzi

nardmoseley

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Tech Tip: Hide Object Inspector Properties
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Question:
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How can I prevent the Report Designer Object Inspector from displaying
specific properties to my end-users?


Solution
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The following example shows how to access the 'User Interface' property
category and remove the 'EmailSettings' property name.

Example:

uses
ppInspector;


var
lPropertyCategory: TppPropertyCategory;
liIndex: Integer;
begin

// get the property category
lPropertyCategory :=
TppPropertyCategoryManager.PropertyCategories.ItemByName['User Interface'];

// find the property name
liIndex := lPropertyCategory.PropertyNames.IndexOf('EmailSettings');

// delete the property name
lPropertyCategory.PropertyNames.Delete(liIndex);

end;