Thanks John
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Minyo II Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 1:57 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: 7.5 to 8.0 Conversion Issue #1 At 03:28 PM 10/8/2009, you wrote: We have just converted five applications from 7.5 to the latest (10.01) version of 8.0. We noticed the following issue and were wondering if anyone has noticed this. Report Conversion - We have forms in different applications (databases) which have a Print button that prints 3 reports when an order is finished being entered. The first report has an on before generate eep which makes certain text fields visible or invisible on the report. So the button eep says this; Print Report1 where etc Print Report2 where etc Print Report3 where etc. Return The On before generate eep in Report1 says this; if vthis='4' or vthat= '5' the property CompID visible 'true' else property CompID visible 'false' endi ret In 7.5 these reports print just fine. In Report1 there is an on before generate eep which was entered in the 7.5 report designer by clicking; Report/Actions/Before Generate. This database (and others) was then converted over to the latest version of 8.0(10.01) . When we ran the above report in 8.0 (using Runtime) only Report1 printed and totally bypassed printing Report2 and Report3. In order to correct this situation we had to change where the before generate eep was located on report1. We modified Report1 by moving the On Before Generate eep (which was entered as described above) using this method; Right click on the Page Header section, click Before Generate Custom Eep and re-entered the eep there. We than re-ran the application and all 3 reports printed as expected. This is quite embarrassing as these reports are generated in front of our customers. My question is this; If this report printing routine worked perfectly in 7.5, why wouldn't it print the same way in 8.0 ? This begs another question - Are there any other issues that we have to look for which would cause the application to not function as it did in 7.5 ? Hello Bill, This issue you're experiencing is specific to a change made in the R:BASE Reports Generator package in the 2nd Quarter of 2008. >From that moment on, the "Before Generate" Report Actions are only to be used for creating temporary tables or for declaring variables. Any PROPERTY commands used to alter the display of report objects must be placed on the Report Bands. As you have already moved your code to the Report Band, you see your expected results can be attained. This logic change was detailed in the "What's New in R:BASE Turbo V-8" PDF documentation for that specific released build of R:BASE Turbo V-8. Please be sure to review the various documents in order to avoid such surprises in the future. Very best, John
