> I need to define my qualifier for a display group in Report Mill, but
> don't know how to set up(:- There is a Qualifier Icon in the table
> attributes Inspector window, i don't know the format to define a
> qualifier. Can someone give an example?
ReportMill's big claim to fame is that it is an "Object Reporting
System". We basically have one line of API that says - return a PDF
page for these objects and this template. Usually you get those
objects from a display group (-allObjects or -selectedObjects), but
if you want you can fetch an array of objects with a fetch
specification and hand us those as well - any objects will do.
The qualifier field in our inspector is really just a hack - we init
a fetch spec from its string and do inline qualification of the
object array you hand us. It's sometimes convenient in demos, but I
wouldn't recommend using it.
> I also have another question about Report Mill template output format
> set-up. Here it is:
>
> I have a Student Display Group in my report mill template. The Student
> display Group has one to many relationship with two test display
Groups,
> say Test1 display Group, and Test2 display Group. I included Student,
> test1s and test2 in the Grouping icon ( in the table attributes
> Inspector window). But the output looks kind of weird. Here is a
example
> of the output.
>
> Say for student1 who took twice test1 and once test2, the output looks
> like:
If you want to iterate through multiple to-many relationships for an
object, you want our TableGroup feature
(http://www.reportmill.com/support/docs/tablegroups.pdf). If you have
just one to-many relationship (ie, 'tests') then you probably want
to use the relationship flattening found in the 'Entity Selection
Panel' (and sort the tests by an attribute that will make sure that
duplicate tests scores follow each other).
Jeff Martin
ReportMill Software
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http://www.reportmill.com
