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Hi,

I have many single page reports which contain unrelated data from differnt sources. I would like to allow the user to combine them into one 'report pack', so that they may use the export functionality to produse a PDF file.
I know I can do this manually by creating seperate pages & data bands, but is there any way to embed existing reports inside another report? I have looked at the subreport function but am afraid I don't understand how to use it.

Regards,

Jon.

Hello,

For the Sub-Report component you can set the Page or another report. As a way, you can try to put several SubReport components on one page and set for it links on another reports.

Thank you.

Aleksey,

Thank you for the response. Could you please tell me how I do this? I can see the 'Use External Report' property, but cannot figure out how to set the report it uses.
Also, I will obviosuly need to do this in code at runtime. I will need to link each subreport to each main report and then set the datasource for each, as each main report has it's own Connection/Table.
Could you please give me a vb.net example of how to do this?

Many Thanks,

Jon.

Alesey,

Sorted it out. I use the following and it seems to work ok.

Dim ds As DataSet = New DataSet
Dim stiSub1 As New StiReport
Dim stiSub2 As New StiReport

Dim stiReportPack As New StiReport

With stiSub1
.Load(ReportPath & "\FirstReport.mrt")
.Dictionary.DataSources.Clear()
ds.ReadXmlSchema(ReportPath & "\FirstReport.xsd")
ds.ReadXml(ReportPath & "\FirstReport.xml")
.Dictionary.ImportXMLSchema(ds)
.RegData("Table", ds)
End With

With stiSub2
.Load(ReportPath & "\SecondReport.mrt")
.Dictionary.DataSources.Clear()
ds.ReadXmlSchema(ReportPath & "\SecondReport.xsd")
ds.ReadXml(ReportPath & "\SecondReport.xml")
.Dictionary.ImportXMLSchema(ds)
.RegData("Table", ds)
End With

With stiReportPack
.SubReports.Add(stiSub1)
.SubReports.Add(stiSub2)
.Render()
End With

Regards,

Jon.

Hello,

Great!

Have a nice day!
Thank you.