The Report Panel, introduced to me by Mark Nepon, referred to in my previous post, was actually called a Printer Control Panel in my book. It's a panel where information specific to different printers is stored, one printer per record. Codes for Bold On, Bold Off, etc., are stored there. I see why you would want to also put certain Web parameters in such a panel as well.
On 9/17/2010 10:48 PM, Ralph Alvy wrote: > 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. _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
