Duplicating subreports

rbuser

Is there an easy way to duplicate a subreport multiple times? I have a
subreport to print a list of employees in a vertical column and I need to
duplicate it once per department. Some of the calculated variables change,
but most of the same report will be identical.

Saving the finished subreport to a file and loading it into a new blank
subreport didn't work.

RB version 10.06

nicocizik

Hi Steve,


What types of problems are you having with this method of copying
subreports?? This would be the easiest way to duplicate the same subreport
numerous times. If fact, you wouldn't event have to save the report to
file, you could save it to a memory stream and then load it into other empty
subreports on the fly in code...

Subreport.Report.Template.SaveToStream(aStream);

SubreportCopy.Report.Template.LoadFromStream(aStream);

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
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rbuser

When I load from file into a new, blank subreport, it tells me essentially
that my group is invalid. When I create another subreport manually, my group
(based on employee department) is assigned a new group number, like this:

Main Report - Group1 (Division)
Subreport1 - Group2 (Department)
Subreport2 - Group3 (Department)

So, when I save Subreport1 as a file and try to load it into a new, blank
Subreport3, the load fails because Group2 already exists in Subreport1 and
cannot exist again in Subreport3.

Steve

nicocizik

Hi Steve,

Yes sorry, I was thinking about copying to separate reports.

In this case you would either need to go through the template code and
change the group names to something unique or create the subreports
completely in code.

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/rbWiki/Delphi_Code/Layouts/Create_SubReport_in_Code

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/rbWiki/Delphi_Code/Layouts/Create_Group_in_Code

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com