Report Writer

[mikemc]

It would be great to have a report writer that would be able to use all the wonderful features you
have for building cards to build reports. In my app I have added an extra card that functions like a report
for printing or PDF but it would be great if the size could be larger somehow without changing the size of the
other cards.

Thanks,
Mike

[SparkOut]

But you could make a substack containing the report card, and open it "invisible" when printing.

[Mikey]

Yes, it would be. The good news is that there are some options:
1) Quartam Reports, which rumor has it is being reworked,
2) If you're doing a bunch of database work, Valentina.
3) Roll something yourself using substacks - I say "ick" to this, but I say "ick" a lot.

[Thierry]

But you could make a substack containing the report card, and open it "invisible" when printing.

+1

I'm doing this since years for printing my invoices.

Thierry

[FourthWorld]

But you could make a substack containing the report card, and open it "invisible" when printing.

+1

I'm doing this since years for printing my invoices.

Same here. True WYSIWYG.

[dunbarx]

Richard said:

Same here. True WYSIWYG.

Me too. There is a stability with using a card as a template, and simply printing the card, that I sometimes cannot quite get with "revPrintField" and its ilk. I have found that "revPrintField" will print from Windows on some machines, but not others. Odd. But "print card" always works.

I do miss the old HC report gadget, which was a pain to set up, but contained enormous power in its ability to use custom functions as vehicles to load data into its fields. Anyone remember that fondly?

Craig

[Mikey]

Am I allowed to say that I miss rpControl, or whatever that reporting engine was called?

[FourthWorld]

I do miss the old HC report gadget, which was a pain to set up, but contained enormous power in its ability to use custom functions as vehicles to load data into its fields. Anyone remember that fondly?

Check out <LiveCodeBundle>/components/Unsupported/revreportsetup.rev

Looks like a nice community project just waiting to happen....

[Mikey]

It's actually
<bundle>/Tools/Toolset/Unsupported/ in the 6.x series, I think.

[mikemc]

I'm going to try the substack idea it seems like the simplest option for now
Thanks everyone for the advice

[mikemc]

The substack idea worked well but how do you open it "invisible" if I open it and just don't put
and navigation to the substack card is that invisible?

[FourthWorld]

Code: Select all

open invisible "SomeStack"

[mikemc]

Thanks I'll give it a try