Fulltext search within report
Hi there folks,
I have been asked by one of our customers if a fulltext-search within a fastreport is possible.
Any ideas how this can be solved?
Is it possible at all?
I have been asked by one of our customers if a fulltext-search within a fastreport is possible.
Any ideas how this can be solved?
Is it possible at all?
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This one seems to be pretty quiet.
Ist this possible?
You can search for everything that has been added in the "code"-part, but you can't search on the items that are in design time.
For exemple: I would like to know on which reports a given field has been used.
I do have > 1000 fr3-files, so I would like to search into the existing files without opening them.
Are you talking about FastReport Report (.FR3) or Prepared Report (.FP3) ? Both files are in XML format, so you can search in them using grepwin or another software of your choice. In the Report (.FR3), you will have access to all the properties that have been modified in the report. In the Prepared Report (.FP3), you will only have access to the resulting strings.
I know that fr3-files are xml-files, but the content that has made at design time, isn't readable in the file.
All the text that has been entered in memo-fields are shown as 044677777777C78976B5CYU7686 and so on...
How can I search on it, because there is real text in it...
My TfrxMemoView text are all stored in plain text.
However, TfrxRichView seems to be stored in Hexadecimal. I don't think it is possible to search within TfrxRichView from outside the report without a custom made program.
[EDIT] I would avoid using TfrxRichView unless absolutely necessary, since it will be exported (PDF, ...) as an image.