On Wednesday 21 February 2007 17:56, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Paul McNett wrote: > > Ask away. What do you need from the Report Designer that you aren't > > figuring out how to do? > > In your screencast demos you have a window on the left that seems to > have tables and fields listed so you can select which one you want to edit. > How does one start a new report definition in a project directory that does > not already contain a filled .rfxml? > > > Also, since you are looking at invoice.rfxml, you could open that in the > > report designer which may open some doors for you. > > I did this. However, it did not help me figure out how to place a title, > for example. Do I need to explicitly make room for it between the top two > bands (or above the topmost)? The screencasts work with an existing report > definition rather than starting from scratch. I'm scratching. > > Thanks, > > Rich Not that I know anything about the report writer. But I believe the screencast suggest that Paul used the AppWizard to create a quick report which in turn created a test dataset. Paul then used the test dataset (created from the AppWizard) as starting point of a new report. -- John Fabiani
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