On Thursday, July 24, 2003, at 03:04 AM, Jan Schenkel wrote:
First of all, I couldn't agree more : a good demo would go a long way towards opening it up ; the good people at Revolution HQ insist that all the parts are there to build wonderful reports ; but the absence of a sample stack leaves us all scratching our heads.
Plea to RR HQ:
I'm a smart guy (sort of) and Jan is surely one of the brightest programmers on the list and we are both scratching our heads about the Report Builder. Please provide a tutorial and a demo stack.
To be honest with you, this seems like one heck of a detour. So if I'm misreading the backScript, I'd sure like to know. In fact, I'd love to be wrong.
Interesting... it does raise more questions for me about Report Builder though.
Report Builder is supposed to save it's settings to the "this card" where "this card" is the sole card on the stack, i.e. the report layout card. But Report Builder has a print range tab, with selection for ranges of cards. I would expect that to refer to the cards on the stack of "this card" which we think should only have 1 card. Also, in the inspector for a report viewer, one can select a source object from any stack and any card! So the print range is totally ambiguous: it could apply to card ranges on:
- "report/layout stack" (1 card or multiple cards?) - stack 1 of source objects - stack 2 of source objects - ... stack N of source objects
Which means what? We have to always use the expression builder for cards in Print Range, and somehow tell it not to traverse the card(s) in the report layout stack?
AAARRGH <- sound of me needing more coffee :-)
Alex Rice, Software Developer Architectural Research Consultants, Inc. http://ARCplanning.com
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