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This may be related to the screen preview when you aren't at 100% zoom.
Increase the zoom to 100%.
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors
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Add this unit to your project and you should see the hints in the previewer:
unit ShowHintPreviewPlugin;
interface
uses
ppPreview, ppTypes;
type
{ in Tool tips on reports Comment by digitalmetaphors August 2002Create a group on a cusotm field, such as a label or variable. This will
let you create a new page by forcing a group break on a group which has
NewPage set to true in the Groups dialog. Use the DetailBand.PrintCount
property. You …There should be messages from 11/16/1999. There is an option to only
download 300 headers at a time, so that may be limiting what you download.
Go into Tools | Options | Read | News and uncheck that option and see if
that helps.
Please remove your news account and recreate it. This will force the
messages to be redownloaded. You can also delete you local news files
through the properties page of OE for a newsgroup.
Cheers,
Jim Bennett…Try unregistering the TppDBText and re-registering it with different text.
implementation
uses
ppCtrls;
initialization
ppUnRegisterComponent(TppDBText);
ppRegisterComponent(TppDBText, 'Data Compo…Please create a single master detail report as shown in the developer's
guide. Do not try linking the pipeline through the master field links and
master data pipeline properties. Once you get the single master detail
report working fo…Be sure to connect the Subreport.DataPipeline property up to the data
pipelines:)
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors
Create a master dataset on school, and then link the two detail datasets up
to the master. Order the school dataset however you want, and the detail
should print in the same ordering.
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
D…It is going to be much easier to try and limit the dataset. Can you create
an inner join so that you can get the calc field as part of the single
dataset instead of using a look up to get it? Then you can filter the
joined dataset t…Limit the dataset. Are you using DADE? If not, then add the calcfield in
the WHERE clause to limit the dataset. If you are using DADE, then you'll
have to wait until RB 7 which will support Calc fields as search criteria in
DADE da…We will release RB 7 for D7 when D7 is released.
If you purchased on or after July 1, 2002, you may upgrade your edition of
ReportBuilder to the latest version for free. All upgrade fees apply to
licenses purchased before July …Use the original dataset, but use the techniques as shown in demo #111-116
of the main reports demo project to only print the records that you want to
print.
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors
Please see the TechTip newsgroup article in the Formats and Devices thread.
Tech Tip: Printing a Unique Caption for each copy of
of a multi-copy report sent to the printer
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Ok, the patch I sent you has a bug. You should get a compile error on
'Toolba' where an 'r' was deleted accidentally. If you don't receive this
error then you are not building using the patch unit. Check your library
path and be s…There is a patch for this. When the template is loaded, modified was
getting set to true. Email support@digital-metaphors.com and we'll send you
the patch unit which you can use to recompile your project and fix the
problem at runti…This question has been answered today in the component-writing newsgroup.
Source code is provided in that thread to a unit which you can add to your
project to replace the previewer's behavior in order to suppress the print
button.> I have a TeeChartDB component pointing to a dataview that I created on the
What are you doing to 'refresh' the report?
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Cheers,
Tom Ollar
Digital Metaphors Corporation
Please see the Templates thread in our Tech-Tips newsgroup for information
on using template events.
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors
You need to typecast the viewer object as a TppViewer, since it is a TObject
property. Add ppViewr to your uses clause.
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors
The PrintOnLastPage property is only designed to support toggling o fthe
footerband to be printed on the last page. It does not mean that it will
print only on the last page. To get the behavior that you want, add a check
in the band…Please see the Tech-Tip newsgroup in the Code Based thread for an article
called:
'Using PrintOnFirstPage for One Page Reports'
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors
Yes, sometimes that can work, but you have to be sure to delete the local
files when you do that. Delete/Create the account does it all:)
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors
Yes, the newsgroup server was 'regenerated' this weekend. You'll need to
refresh all of your cached messages for the threads to build properly...
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Cheers,
Tom Ollar
Digital Metaphors Corporation
Ori…Thanks for reporting this problem and great work fixing it!
This problem was first reported in May, 2002 and was fixed at that time - a
patch is available.
Of course, the fix will also appear in version 7.0, which is only …Sorry, our FTP server is down right now. I can email you any example that
you would like if you send an email to support@digital-metaphors.com
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors
Yes, it is only limited to D5. You can drop reports on a datamodule in D6
and it should work just fine:)
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors
Does NOT exist is correct:) We never could figure out how to fix the
problem in D5 for data modules and reports.
"I've been told not to place a TppReport on TDataModules, but I prefer to
keep my non-visual components on data m…Use a TppVariable and set its DataType to Double. The timing of the
variable should be set to Traversal. You can set the variable to reset on a
group if you have groups in the report. Use the reset on group start timing
if you have…The "InList" operator is implemented by the SQL database you are using; so
the limitation is in the database, not in RB. One way to work around this
limitation is to manually generate the WHERE clause for your query using the
OR opera…