Passing value into report.

rbuser

I have a number of letters that I want to print using ReportBuilder. At
print time, the user will select from among a number of possible letter
signers. Short of including this information in my SQL as an extra column,
how to a notify the report to print letter signer's name in the right place?
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Larry

nicocizik

Hi Larry,

If you would like to pass a value into a report to later be used perhaps in
RAP, you can use the Report Parameters feature. Take a look at the
TppReport.Parameters topic in the RB help as well as the the following
article on parameter fundamentals.

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/rbWiki/End-User/Fundamentals/Report_Parameter_Fundamentals

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Regards,

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

rbuser

I'm not sure how you have your reports coonfigured, but you may consider
adding a TppJITPopeline to your application and putting user-configured
items in there.

Ed Dressel
Team DM

rbuser

>TppJITPopeline

Argh, fingers.... TppJITPipeline.

rbuser

> adding a TppJITPopeline to your application and putting user-configured

In this instance, the customer is not paying for the "Divine Intercession"
option, so the Popeline is out ;-). I'm using a calculated field in the
underlying dataset. Thanks for the help, though, and I will make a point of
educating myself about the JITPipeline.
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Larry

rbuser

> If you would like to pass a value into a report to later be used perhaps

Thanks. It looks like Report Parameters is more-or-less what I was looking
for, but in order to avoid learning RAP right now I used a calculated field
in the underlying dataset instead (which simply returns the text from the
drop-down used by the user to select the letter signer).

If I can suggest an enhancement, it would be nice to have a component that
one could simply drop on the report and set to display one of the
parameters - similar in functionality to the system variables you have now.
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Larry

nicocizik

Hi Larry,

Thanks for the suggestion.

Note that RAP is a Pascal compiler very similar to Delphi. If you are
familiar with Delphi, you already know the basics of RAP.

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Regards,

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

rbuser

> ...but in order to avoid learning RAP ...

if you know Pascal, you will find RAP amazingly easy to work with. The
learning curve is very short, and the power is great.

Ed Dressel
Team DM