Karen
I didn't see any answers to your questions, so
I'll offer what help; I can.
I find this whole area of reports still the most
confusing piece of an otherwise terrrific package and upgrade from previous
releases.
I can't answer questions 1 and 3, but can offer
some help on 2. Take a look at the report AllColumns in the sample RBTI
Concomp database that comes with 7.x.
The key is not that the that the DBmemo must be
in the region, but that all elements BELOW it that should shift down when the
dbmemo is large should be in a region! Each of those elements IN the
region are marked as Keep Together so they stay with the region. Then the
REGION is marked to ShiftRelativeTo the MEMO above it.
Razzak, can you jump in to indicate if I've got
this right and to offer further clarification on the other questions for
Karen?
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 5:03 PM
Subject: [RBG7-L] - Basic report questions
Man, do
I need a refresher course or what? I haven't had to do any
complicated reports (not that this seems complicated, but it's something
easy to do in 6.5++ and I'm scratching my head over 7.1 and can't find
any samples with what I'm trying to do).
I'm trying to put
together a report to show a client who's considering
upgrading to 7.1 from
4.5. Unfortunately this will be on the cheap, so I
am doing a
straight conversion -- no restructuring of database tables.
Question
1: Is it true that there is no way to word wrap a DBLabel? Please
tell me there's a way to do this. This report has tons of columns
and all the
text values wrap into multiple lines. I do not want to
restructure a table to
change nice static text columns into a whole bunch
of note fields.
Question 2: If I have a DBMemo with other
DBLabels located below it in the
detail band, what's the procedure to keep
the memo from flowing down into
the field below it? Do I have to
enclose every DBMemo field within a region?
Question 3: It says
that "stretch" will be ignored if the band is "static". I had
"static", but it refused to let me choose "dynamic". I would click
it and it
goes back to "static"
Feeling stupid today!
Karen
