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Need help with report using vb6.0 and access

Asked by: Kavar

I currently have a report using vb 6.0 accessing an access database, I want to put "summary" type data in the "Page Header" section... This is driving me nuts All I can see to do is put the page number and a couple of useless things in there, I need dynamic data in there.  You see I have a grouping that involves the state, if the group spans multiple pages, I want the group information (current state) to be at the top, the only way I can see to get something at the top of each page is with the page section, and I cant see how to get dynamic data in there...

Please help its very urgent.

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Answers

 

by: xassetsPosted on 2004-03-09 at 08:30:09ID: 10551742

Is this an access report or a VB6 data report ?

 

by: KavarPosted on 2004-03-09 at 08:35:08ID: 10551783

the report is a vb6.0 "DataReport"

 

by: xassetsPosted on 2004-03-09 at 08:41:29ID: 10551846

Ahh sorry don't know those. My advice in access would have been to not use the page header, but instead to use a "sorting and grouping" group section which repeats on every page (repeatsection = yes). Maybe this is what you need to do for the datareport ?

 

by: KavarPosted on 2004-03-09 at 08:45:15ID: 10551891

Sorry, I know very little about this stuff...

I already tried adding a grouping but when I ran the report  I got  a error about my grouping not matching my report (or something)

 

by: oleggoldPosted on 2004-03-16 at 02:35:50ID: 10604992

As I see this It would be prefferable for You to use the VB Data Form Wizard to create your form initially,
then select Access ,Your DB name,Then it seems to be rigth to choose the MS Hflex Grid,I'm sure You can download it from Microsoft if it did'nt came with the VB6 installation.
Best Luck,
Oleg

 

by: xassetsPosted on 2004-03-16 at 02:47:37ID: 10605033

Right click the data report and click "Insert Group Header/Footer"

Then click the new section, get the props window up (f4) and change the "Force page break" attribute

Then put all your page info on that section and get rid of the page header section

 

by: xassetsPosted on 2004-03-16 at 02:55:25ID: 10605061

Err yuk I just realised that that will force a new page but I don't see a repeat section in there. Also looked on google and could find anything on repeat section.

Chuck it out and get fop !

Kavar if you need this quickly I can give you the code snippets for running MS access reports from vb and displaying them in a vb activex control (snapshot)

 

by: KavarPosted on 2004-03-22 at 05:02:52ID: 10648440

What I ended up doing (because time was critical) was pulling the data into a record set and using word automation to format it.

Looks like there is no way to do this using dsr.

xassests, what is fop?

 

by: xassetsPosted on 2004-03-22 at 05:13:31ID: 10648502

FOP is a XML / XSL processing standard for creating PDF, HTML and XML documents from XML documents.

I'm looking at moving to fop as a report production tool for web apps. Check out Apache FOP at http://xml.apache.org/fop, thats the free one but sadly is java based and there's no equivalent dll for direct calls.

There's lots of small vendors of fop products which are callable from vb and .net etc

Theres some concensus in the developer community that crystal reports continues to disappoint in some ways, because developers spend all their time working around restrictions or finding out how to do things, but with such a whopping market share no-one wants to take them on. It'll be interesting to see if fop catches on as a contender to replace them.

 

by: KavarPosted on 2004-03-22 at 05:32:24ID: 10648588

Well you think crystal is limited? Take a good look at dsr's!  (me NO LIKE), anyway thanks for the help

 

by: xassetsPosted on 2004-03-22 at 05:38:17ID: 10648625

OK thanks for the points.

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