Support for Form Inheritance
Greeting
This is a question mainly directed at FR development guys.
I am trying to create a report heirarchy using form inheritance, but it appears that the TfrReport component does not honour form inheritance .. i.e. if I change the base class the change is not reflected, or updated in the sub-classes.
I assume that this is due to the way the TfrReport is stored in the form resource. It would appear that the new form is basically a copy (in relation to the TfrReport component) rather than an inheritance. Is this something that is likely to change in FR3?
Form inheritance is a very useful feature when working with reports as it allows a base class to dictate the general layout (headers, footers, dimensions etc.) and common functionality of all reports.
Best regards
Steve
This is a question mainly directed at FR development guys.
I am trying to create a report heirarchy using form inheritance, but it appears that the TfrReport component does not honour form inheritance .. i.e. if I change the base class the change is not reflected, or updated in the sub-classes.
I assume that this is due to the way the TfrReport is stored in the form resource. It would appear that the new form is basically a copy (in relation to the TfrReport component) rather than an inheritance. Is this something that is likely to change in FR3?
Form inheritance is a very useful feature when working with reports as it allows a base class to dictate the general layout (headers, footers, dimensions etc.) and common functionality of all reports.
Best regards
Steve
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