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  • < ShowReport = PrepareReport + ShowPreparedReport > Understood, but it doesn't answer my question. To me "PrepareReport" suggests unseen preparation, and should not include the display of a dialog. I want to suppress the display during Pr…
  • < Attach small demo project with your problem > Attached. OK ?
  • < Use ShowPreparedReport instead of ShowReport > Thanks. But isn't it possible to suppress the first dialog, so that the second one shows against the background of the report form ?
  • < you create your own functions to pass out the values to delphi. > I can't get this to work. If I buy the source code version of fr, will I be able to patch the code so that I can sort the data ?
  • I do understand < it does not handle setting of properties of the (table,querie,tdataset) to which it is connected, from inside the report > But that's the workaround that I'm trying to achieve. Or rather, I want the report to se…
  • < so you connected the tfrxdbdataset to the memtable or the tclientdataset? > Yes, to the tclientdataset
  • < are you trying to build client/server apps as per the c/s demos? > No, it's a local TClientDataset loaded from a file then handled in memory by midas.dll.
  • < out of the box means nothing (one needs to know which box) > It means - as downloaded without any re-configuration. < what version build and level of fr are you using > 4.9.2 Demo version (until I'm satisfied that it has th…
  • < internally only if you are using components of one of the fr supplied dbengines > I'm using fr "out-of-the box". I assume that it's using midas to support TClientDataset. So how do I access it please ?
  • So isn't there any way of allowing the report's user to decide the sort order of the records ?
  • < you can either set it from the report designer > Where please ? < or from delphi as a tfrxreportcomponent property > I did that but the dialog still appears.
  • Thanks. Groups now works. But you didn't answer (or I didn't understand) : How can I access the Properties of a report's dataset ? It's a TClientDataset (so SQL isn't available) and I want to set its IndexFieldName property.
  • My program has a TListBox in which I list the available reports. There's a View button and a Design button. Each of them loads the report from file, then either shows the report or designs it. All OK. But if I view first, then design (or the oth…
  • Thanks for the solution < suggest you read the programmer's manual on how to access objects from delphi code > A search for "description" doesn't find anything. Perhaps it's the help file that needs updating ?