some general questions

rbuser

Dear ReportBuilder Team,

We are using RAVE Reports in many Delphi projects and plan to switch to
ReportBuilder.
Maybe you could answer some questions we have to facilitate our decision:

our question are mainly concerning localization - international language
support
- of our applications:

- is it possible to use unicode in the DB text components of RB?
- is it possible to use unicode in the GUI of RB? (we would like to use east
europe, russian characters for example)
- is there a possibility to get control over the builded report through
Delphi
events (like in Quickreport)?

thanks in advance

Ulf

nicocizik

Hi Ulf,

Thanks for your interest in ReportBuilder!

To answer your questions...

Yes, ReportBuilder 11 for Delphi 2009 supports unicode text for all
available text objects.

Yes, the report designer for RB 11 for Delphi 2009 is fully Unicode
compatible.

Yes, it is possible to completely create, alter, or control a report from
code in Delphi. ReportBuilder Enterprise Edition also includes the RAP
programming language. This allows you to keep all event code local to the
report object removing the need to keep report-specific code in Delphi.

My suggestion is to download a trial copy of ReportBuilder from our website
and take a look at some of the demos and tutorials located in the
\Documents\RBuilder\Demos\... directory. There is also a developer's guide
in this directory which gives a great overview of what can be accomplished
with ReportBuilder.

Download from our website at http://www.digital-metaphors.com

Also take a look at our new rbWiki resource located at the follwing web
address. It includes a wealth of information including numerous articles
and examples of common tasks and report created with ReportBuilder.

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/rbWiki

If you have any more questions, please feel free to post them here or send
an email to support@digital-metaphors.com and we'll be happy to help.

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Regards,

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

rbuser

Hello Nico,

thanks for your immediate response, I have some more questions:

- in our reports we use different band structures within one report.
Our catalog report for example:

first page: list of contents (by the way: is this supported by report
builder?)
next 3 pages master detail band with pictures
next 2 pages usual bands
next 6 pages master detail bands again
following 6 pages a glossar

we have a user dialog where the user can check which parts should be
included in the report.

is this (kind of "multi part report") supported by report builder?

thanks again

Ulf

nicocizik

Hi Ulf,

It is possible to create a table of contents at the beginning of a report.
Take a look at the following rbWiki article on how this can be done.

http://www.digital-metaphors.com:8080/Delphi_Code/Layouts/How_To...Create_a_Table_of_Contents

Separating a report can easily be done with the use of Section subreports.
If you would like to control which sections are printed, you can simply
toggle the Visible property of each subreport. Take a look at demos 51 and
52 located in the \Documents\RBuilder\Delphi X\Demos\1. Reports\...
directory.

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Regards,

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