Creating Quickbook Style Reports

rbuser

I use ReprotBuilder and want to create reports that the user can click on an
entry in the report and open a popup screen with drill down details. More
and more our accounting clients are asking for this ability.

Is there a way to implement this functionality or can this type of
functionality be incorporated into ReportBuilder ?

nicocizik

Hi David,

My suggestion would be to create two reports, one with all the main entries
and one with all drill down information. When an entry on the first report
is clicked, the second report is loaded filtering on the clicked value.
Below is a simple example I created showing how this could be done.

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/DrawCommandClickNewFilteredReport.zip

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Regards,

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

nardmoseley

RB has built-in support for drill down subreports. Rather than popup a
window, the detail information appears on the same page - more like page
animation. There is a drill down subreport tutorial in the Developers Guide.

RB also has support for making objects 'hot clickable' in the previewer.
This can be used to implement a custom drill downlo popup style report.

Run RBuilder\Demos\Reports\Demo.dpr and check out demo 152. For a custom
implementation that spawns a notebook tab page, check out demo 153. For an
example of a hot-clickable report, check out demo 154.



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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors
www.digital-metaphors.com