Specifications

CHAPTER 6 Enhancing Reports
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❖ To store data in a report:
1 If the Data view is not already displayed, select View>Data from the menu
bar.
In the default layout for the Report painter, the Data view displays in a
stacked pane under the Properties view. All columns defined for the report
are listed at the top.
2 Do any of the following:
• Click the Insert Row button in the PainterBar to create an empty row
and type a row of data. You can enter as many rows as you want.
• Click the Retrieve button in the PainterBar to retrieve all the rows of
data from the database. You can delete rows you do not want to save
or manually add new rows.
• Click the Delete button in the PainterBar to delete unwanted rows.
Data changes are local to the report
Adding or deleting data here does not change the data in the database. It
only determines what data will be stored with the report when you save it.
The Update DB button is disabled.
3 When you have finished, save the report.
When you save the report, the data is stored in the report.
Sharing data with the
Preview view
To see changes you make in the Data view reflected in the Preview view, select
ShareData from the pop-up menu in the Data view. The Preview view shows
data from the storage buffer associated with the Data view.
What happens at runtime
When you run a report with stored data, the data is already there. InfoMaker
does not retrieve data.
InfoMaker never retrieves data into a drop-down DataWindow that already
contains data. For all other reports, if you retrieve data into a report stored with
data, InfoMaker handles it the same as a report that is not stored with data:
InfoMaker gets the latest data by retrieving rows from the database.