TfrxReport

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• gordk St.Catherines On. Canada.

  April 2009 edited 1:18PM

  read the programmers manual on building a composite report
  you can also append the previewpages of one reportcomponent to the previewpages of a previously prepared report component(must contain at least 1 previewpage).
  
• vdragan

  April 2009 edited 1:18PM

  Thank for the answer. In programmers manual there is explanation how to create composite report like following:
  
  frxReport1.LoadFromFile('1.fr3');
  frxReport1.PrepareReport;
  frxReport1.LoadFromFile('2.fr3');
  frxReport1.PrepareReport(false);
  frxReport1.ShowPreparedReport;
  
  I was thinking on following:
  
  frxReport1.PrepareReport;
  frxReport2.PrepareReport;
  
  and then somehow to make it into single report.
  Actually in my program I have option to create either first or second or both as one report. I would like to have both report components available in design time and then to combine into single report.
  
  Simon
• gordk St.Catherines On. Canada.

  April 2009 edited 1:18PM

  frxReport1.PrepareReport;
  frxReport2.PrepareReport;
  
  frxreport1.PreviewPages.AddFrom(frxreport2);
  however if you are using page numbering variables their output will not be correct.
• vdragan

  April 2009 edited 1:18PM

  thanks for the answer
  
• dlamb

  May 2009 edited 1:18PM

  I just found your thread.
  
  I have a few questions about composite reports.
  Is the given example using reports that are static--that have no dialogPage?
  How could I make a composite report that accepts input variables and passes them to all the reports
  called by the composite report? For example, what if I want to create a Composite report with a
  dialogPage that takes in a start and end date, how would I pass those variables to the combined reports?
  
  Thanks
  

  gordk wrote: »

  frxReport1.PrepareReport;
  frxReport2.PrepareReport;
  
  frxreport1.PreviewPages.AddFrom(frxreport2);
  however if you are using page numbering variables their output will not be correct.
• gordk St.Catherines On. Canada.

  May 2009 edited 1:18PM

  use variables after loading and before calling prepare set the variable values as described in the programmers manual, better to use your own dialog in such a case.
• dlamb

  June 2009 edited 1:18PM

  Thank you for the response, I will give your suggestion a reply.
  regards David
• dlamb

  June 2009 edited 1:18PM

  gordk wrote: »

  use variables after loading and before calling prepare set the variable values as described in the programmers manual, better to use your own dialog in such a case.

  
  I finally found some time to working in this.
  I tried to call a sample report by modifying the script in the programmer's manual.
  
  frxReport1.LoadFromFile('1.fr3');
  frxReport1.PrepareReport;
  frxReport1.LoadFromFile('2.fr3');
  frxReport1.PrepareReport(False);
  frxReport1.ShowPreparedReport;
  
  However I am using version 4.7 Studio. It failed on PrepareReport and ShowPreparedReport.
  under the class TfrxReport I found LoadFromFile and ShowReport ( I assumed this takes the place of ShowPreparedReport), but did no find PrepareReport.
  I tried it with Preview and ShowReport.
  Here is my intiala code as written in the Code tab:
  
  begin
  TfrxReport.LoadFromFile('01.Simple list.fr3');
  TfrxReport.Preview;
  TfrxReport.ShowReport;
  end.
  
  The Page1 tab is empty. The Data tab is empty. There is no Dialog tab set.
  
  I get the following error:
  Access Violation at address blahblah in module 'fastreport3.dll'
  
  Can you offer some suggestions?
  regards David
  
• gordk St.Catherines On. Canada.

  June 2009 edited 1:18PM

  the best would be to first post in the correct forum or news groups
  the answer i gave was for fr4 not studio version , since i do not work with it.
  
• dlamb

  June 2009 edited 1:18PM

  Thanks for the input.
  regards David
  

  gordk wrote: »

  the best would be to first post in the correct forum or news groups
  the answer i gave was for fr4 not studio version , since i do not work with it.