Preview Events

rbuser

Hi,

I am not certain if this is an issue with how I have configured my
installation or an RB issue.

Viewing a report in Preview does not display the Search Dialog when
AutoSearch criteria are defined in DADE. If the report is allowed to access
all the data and reach the point where the Preview controls are available, I
can now activate the Search Dialog and supply the appropriate values to
filter the data selection.

This situation causes end users a great deal of grief when designing reports
when the amount of data in the tables is more than a few hundred records,
which is usually the case. Is there anything that I can do to or is this
something that needs to be fixed at your end?

PS I am currently using 9.03

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Bob

nardmoseley

This is working as designed. In the report designer, the dialog is not
displayed - we thought that would be annoying, since a user will typically
switch between design and preview quite often.

One option is to define a default search value when the query is defined.

Another option might be to use the Designer.OnTabChange event to
programmatically display the autosearch dialog.

if (NewTab = 'Preview') then

ppReport1.DisplayAutoSearchDialog;