Report Designer

[rene316]

Hello,
I am finishing up a tracking program for my company, and at the last instant they requested to be able to print a report of the item being tracked. Everything I have researched says, to use report designer you have to create the project within the data enviroment. Is there a way around this or can you suggest a alternate method.

Thank you,
Rene

 

[wayne1954]

hi rene
i'm kinda new to datareport, but i've also been forced to learn it. from what i understand and what i've so far accomplished:

yes you need to atleast have a dataenvironment as the datasource and atleast 1 command as the datamember of the datareport.

that doesn't necessarily mean the you have to use it beyond those 2 properties.

this is fairly a versatile report designer (considering you don't pay additional for it), but it does have its limitations. crystal reports is better but in my case, cost-prohibitive.

hope this helps

wayne

 

[johnwm]

You don't need a DataEnvironment for DataReport. Just generate the appropriate recordset in the usual way and then (using dr1 as name of your datareport and rst as your recordset):

Set dr1.DataSource = rst

Object browser gives you quite a good insight into the innards of DataEnvironment

BTW If you're using VB6 (I believe Pro upwards) there is a copy of Crystal (4.5 I think) on one of your installation disks

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