On 9/17/2010 4:11 PM, Brian Hancock wrote:
> A dummy one record panel that is the report that all web reports are
> based on. It creates virtual links to the web parameters panel (link via
> the SID with the DP function user.field[0]. One of the reasons it is so
> essential, is that if you base a report on a panel which has no data
> then the report will not run, so adding the first record in a panel is
> very problematic, unless you use the dummy panel.

Actually, I think my book talks about creating a dummy report (really 
just a dummy report body) from the first record in a panel, and then 
making sure that parent report body stops after exactly one record (all 
the while its various subreports process all the records you want). So 
you don't really need a separate dummy report panel for this. You just 
need a panel that has at least one record.

A Report Panel is another subject altogether, and that was introduced to 
me by Mark Nepon.

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