TeeChart & RB

rbuser

HI Guys,

D2007, RB14, TeeChartPro 2010.

I have a TeeChart on a Form, all good.

What is the simplest, most exedient way of having that same chart
appear in an RB report?

Is there any way to link a form TeeChart & an RB TeeChart?

Similarly, I have a 5 column Grid with the Data that was applied to
the Form Teechart. It has 200+ x-axis data points.

I would like that grid/data to appear in two side by side 'Columns' of
5column grid in the Report.

Again, is there a simple, direct way of tdoing this?

Regards & TIA,

Ian.

digitalmetaphors

Hi Ian,

You have two options with the TeeChart.

1. Recreate the TeeChart using the embedded TeeChart component in
ReportBuilder.

2. Display an image copy of the TeeChart on the form inside the report.
We have many customers using this method so they can have identical
charts on their forms and reports. See the following article on how to
accomplish this with RB.

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/rbWiki/RCL/Chart/How_To...Chart_As_Image

For the grid, I'm a bit unclear about what you would like to accomplish.
Do you want a copy of the grid itself inside the report? If so, there
may be a way to do this similarly to the TeeChart method described above.

If you just want the grid data inside the report, you can either connect
the underlying dataset to a pipeline and retrieve it that way or you
could use a JITPipeline to manually retrieve the data from the grid and
display it on the report.

rbuser

Hi Nico,

Umm. I did reply to this but it seems to have dissappeared. Wonder
if it is because I attaced an image.


I like the image idea. It would mean maintaining only one Chart.

I used the JITPipeline method to load the data to the report.

Regards & thank you,

Ian

rbuser

Hi Nico,

OK. Almost there. Got the Data, got the Image.

Two things..

1. No matter what order the two section subreports are in, the 'graph'
page prints before the Data/Table page. Prefer the other way round.

2. How do I get the Chart image to appear centered on the landscape
page, vert & horiz, when in Preview & printed? I have
'AlignHorizontal' & 'AlignVertical' set to Center in each case in the
Image properties.

Regards & TIA,

Ian

nicocizik

Hi Ian,

1. Section subreports print based on z-order. You can use the Bring
Forward or Send Backward commands when right clicking over the subreport
components to adjust this.

2. The easiest way to center a static image such as a TeeChart is to
create a new Page Layer. This will give you a workspace the size of the
page to position the image. Another option is to stretch the detail
band to the height of the page and place the image in the correct position.

rbuser

Hi Nico,

Again, thank you for your support.

z order - I think I accidentally discovered that while playing around
when they swapped around but didn't realise it. Now I know what I
did..;-)

Page Layer - Not sure about what this means. Never done anything with
it. Is there a Demo of its use? I did stretch the band as suggested
and positioned the 'image'.

FYI - When I loaded the TeeChart Demo it came up against an issue
about the Series. There seems to have been a change in TeeChart or RB
that now causes an error. I am using D2007, RB 15.01 & TC 2013.

Regards,

Ian

nicocizik

Hi Ian,

Here's some information on Design Layers. They can be useful for full
page designs and report organization.

Design Layers can be used to separate a report layout into logical
layers. Every report layout always has a Foreground layer. To add a
background layer select the Designer Layers node in the tree view. Next,
press the right mouse button and select either New Page Layer or New
Band Layer from the context menu. A tab set will appear just below the
report tree and just above the object inspector. Use the tab set to
select a design layer for editing.

A bullet point list of the some of the Design Layer features is provided
here

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/rbWiki/General/What's_New/RB_14

Also check out the RBuilder help topic for TppDesignLayer and its
properties.