Multiple reports open in Report Designer

rbuser

Any plans for having more that one report open in the Designer at a time
(DADE)? Maybe each report on different tabs rather than floating forms,
which I would have thought impractical within the Designer workspace. I
imagine that this might mean quite a re-working in the architecture, but
for end users it is very very useful to be able to compare reports.
Multiple designer instances are clumsy and less than ideal, and
introduces more problems than it solves, I think.

Thanks, Paul

nardmoseley

Paul,

Thanks for the feedback. Currently no plans for this. I will add to the
requested feature list. As you suggest it would be quite a bit re-working of
the architecture, for not a huge benefit. As a user I don't see much
difference between having two floating designer windows. But I realize
different users have different preferences.


Best regards,

-
Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors
www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

On 01/02/2014 00:17, Nard Moseley (Digital Metaphors) wrote:
ISTR a recommedation from DM yonks back NOT to have multiple instances
of the Designer open, particularly because of the resource overhead.
Furthermore, we embed the Designer in a panel, although I guess that
could become a TPageControl.

nardmoseley

Two possible solutions come to mind:

1. Place two Designer panels on a form and toggle between them. Yes that
will use up more resources.

2. Place one Designer panel on a form and use a tabset to toggle. When the
tab changes, load the report from a file or memory stream. This will use
less resources, might be a slight delay while the report loads, depending on
how complex it is.



Best regards,

-
Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors
www.digital-metaphors.com