Report view question 2

[apex1x]

Hi
I am trying to do a series of reports using the standard reportview object in vb.net 2005. The current one would be more of an invoice, where data from multiple tables are put together to get the report. One thing is I would need the invoice number generated on a different form to be passed to the report as a filter. I am really getting stuck on this and can't find too many resources to help out so I'm wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction or suggest a perhaps better way to do it.

Thanks. And let me know if you'd like anything elaborated on.

 

[apex1x]

Haha, thats just what I was thinking and contemplating. The only thing is, part of the program generates a row that is quite large (collection of various strings) and so I would need to count the total number of characters, including spaces and punctuation. Any ideas on where to start with this?

 

[larrabee]

sorry I cant really think of a fool proof way that this would be possible - I am attacking a similar problem where my details grow and shrink, and depending on their size a block of information that I want to be all on the same page ends up getting split.

 

[burnsg]

Have you guys ran into the problem where your variable data in the header shows up on the screen, but not the printer or in PDF?

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=327374&SiteID=1

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=158105&SiteID=1

Greg