Rick Graves wrote:
I am wondering whether the report designer can handle
putting colored boxes on the page. In landscape
orientation, I need to make a step pyramid of colored
boxes, with 4 rows, one box on the top row and 4 boxes
across the bottom row.
You mean like (warning: view with mono font):
+-----------+
| |
| |
+-----------+
+-----------+-----------+
| | |
| | |
+-----------+-----------+
+-----------+-----------+-----------+
| | | |
| | | |
+-----------+-----------+-----------+
+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
| | | | |
| | | | |
+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
If so, yes, it can handle that.
On a real report, the color of each box will be data
driven, but for a first trial run, static colors will
do. Also, on a real report, there would be some text
in each box.
No problem.
This would be a one page (one pyramid) per table row
type report.
So either make the detail band be the height of the page, or make a
group on the pk of the table with StartOnNewPage=True.
If the report designer can handle this, I would
appreciate some suggestions on getting started steps.
If I have time today (50/50 chance), I'll see if I can whip up a quick
example report.
If the report designer overview covers this, I
apologize, but I have so far not been able to view
them both (I have seen part but not all of the first
one). I have tried them on two Win XP computers, both
of which with just-installed shock flash player
updates (and each on different ADSL "broadband"
services). The zip version of the first one does not
play at all for me on either machine, but I was able
to get through some of the first one from the west
coast alternative download.
Weird. Can other people please try viewing these screencasts and let us
know if they have trouble too? Maybe we should post our screencasts to
Google video or YouTube instead...
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