Inherited Report

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• pinbot Texas

  October 2009 edited 5:42PM

  
  Also,
  
  When I add a page to an inherited report, how come it does not inherit the header/footer from the base report?
  
  Only the first template page follows the base report?
  
  Bryan
• AlexTZ

  October 2009 edited 5:42PM

  Hello,
  
  1) It's quite hard to redo an existing report to make it inherited. You may open two instances of the report designer and copy objects from one to another.
  2) That's correct. You need two pages in your base report to do like you want.
• pinbot Texas

  October 2009 edited 5:42PM

  
  
  2) I was trying to follow the example in the fr.net user's manual.
  
  I'd like to have a consistent header/footer on every page of my report which has about 8 template pages right now, and I'm adding more.
  
  You're saying I need 8 template pages in the base report, correct?
  
  In that case, I don't see much advantage to having the inherited report if I have to make changes to every page in the base report as opposed to the derived report.
  
  I guess what I'd like is a "Global Header/Footer" that would be applied to every page, even new template pages.
  
  Bryan
• AlexTZ

  October 2009 edited 5:42PM

  Sorry, it's not possible to do what you want with the inherited report. Every object in the base report must have only one inherited object. You cannot inherit two or more objects from one base object. There is no "global header/footer".