Dynamic Reports

[AlastairP]

Good morning,

I have created a report which can have negative numbers. I have configured the report using dynamic, to have negative values in red. When I preview the report, this works fine. But when I run the report in my previewer (Container on a form) , I don't see dynamic effects.

 

[Olaf Doschke]

Dynamics depend on reportbehavior 90 and you have to add reportoutput.app and reportpreview.app to your exe to make it work.
And don't define window for a preview window, just use the PREVIEW clause of the REPORT FORM command.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[AlastairP]

Hi Olaf, I will look into this.
I had set reportbehavior 90
I get the problem during developement, so not sure whether reportoutput.app and reportpreview.app would make a difference at this stage.
I will experiement with PREVIEW clause of the REPORT FORM command, and report back

Alastair

 

[AlastairP]

So how do I preview the report in previewer I have on the form? There has to be a way to make it work.

rl=thisform.previewcont1.listenerref
REPORT FORM  dailysummary OBJECT rl 

lcRec=rl.OutputPageCount
thisform.previewcont1.totalpages=lcRec
lcPAge=thisform.previewcont1.pageNo


WAIT "" WINDOW AT 20,20 TIMEOUT .005
	
rl.OutputPage( lcPage, thisform.previewcont1, 2 )

 

[Olaf Doschke]

Fine, you could have said earlier your using a reportlistener.

OK, what I did is a simple report with dynamics defined for a field and it didn't print in reportbehaviour 80, also not in 90 in a preview window I created by DEFINE WINDOW. That's how I came to my recommendation.

You're using a listener, which indicates you're already in reportengine 90 mode. I don't know whetern listener.outputpage renders dynamics, I know dynamics are working with a listener, even if you just start a report the legacy way witout a OBJECT clause a standard listener is used to render the dynamics via the script you can watch in the dynamics dialog and IIRC VFP just creates a reportlistener on the fly for that. Maybe you somewhere need to tell it should use r1, your own reportlistener. I'll have to investigate myself, before I could answer that.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[AlastairP]

Hi Olaf,
Thanks, I will keep looking into it and if I can find a work-around, report back

Alastair