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Category: Active Reports 6

Active Reports – How to access a public variable on a parent report from a sub report.

In the ActiveReport-ReportStart section of your parent report, you can assign any object type to the Report object variable, ‘UserData’

UserData is a public object of the DataDynamics.ActiveReports.ActiveReport.

Scenario:

Let’s say you are using a Watermark in your parent report. … Read the rest

Author JamesPosted on November 22, 2013Categories Active Reports 6

Active Reports – Sub reports overlapping each other when rendered.

If you are like me and have a report that dynamically calls a sub report that then calls sub reports (using the sub report control), you may have run into the occasional sub report overlap nightmare. The latest encounter for … Read the rest

Author JamesPosted on November 16, 2013Categories Active Reports 6

Active Reports 6 – Inputbox

Instead of passing a parameter to a report with a value set to preexisting data, you can instead prompt the user running the report with an inputBox (Microsoft.VisualBasic) in order to capture the data on the fly to be used … Read the rest

Author JamesPosted on November 15, 2013Categories Active Reports 6

Active Reports 6 – Enable Script Debugging and force a breakpoint using Debug.Assert(False) in a sub report

In order to debug active reports in the Visual Studio IDE solution, you need to set EnableScriptDebugging = True.

In this example, I want to debug a sub report. When creating a sub report dynamically in the main report that … Read the rest

Author JamesPosted on April 4, 2013Categories Active Reports 6

Microsoft Visual Studio / Active Reports 6 – How to sort your collections using IComparer

Put this class in your solution. Change ‘[object name of your collection]’ to be the name of your object that defines your collection.

Public Class SimpleComparer
Implements IComparer(Of [object name of your collection])

    Private _propertyToSort As String
    Private _sortOrder As 
… Read the rest
Author JamesPosted on May 18, 2012Categories Active Reports 6, Microsoft Visual Studio

Active Reports 6 – How to display page header information on a subreport within a parent report

You can create a page header for a report, but if that report is used as a sub-report, the page header and page footer of that report does not render. Instead, only the parent report’s page header and page footer … Read the rest

Author JamesPosted on April 17, 2012Categories Active Reports 6

Active Reports 6 – How to communicate from sub report to parent report

The following illustrates one way to communicate information from a sub report back to its parent or main report. It may not be the cleanest way, but it works.

Let’s say you have a main report, RPT-001.rpx. This report has … Read the rest

Author JamesPosted on April 11, 2012Categories Active Reports 6

Active Reports 6 – Sort a collection in Active Reports

In this example, we take an unsorted Product Collection called ProductCollection that is assigned

to our report Data Source. We instantiate another Product Collection for sorting called

sortedProductCollection. Using a Do Loop, we read the Product Collection and build the… Read the rest

Author JamesPosted on January 15, 2012Categories Active Reports 6

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