Report Builder - Get Data Directly from DB

Introduction

Sometime in the report you might wanted some extra information but you not able to select in the report design. So we had to self query to get the extra information.

Steps

Below is example using Sales Invoice to get Shelf field from Maintain Item

01. Click on SubRptNorm: Document_Detail

02. Select the Variable button (the Calculator icon)

03. Click on the place to be print

04. Click on Calc Tab

05. Right click here & Select Event & find the component just now we had placed (eg Variable2)

06. Click OnCalc

07. Click here & enter the below script

procedure Variable2OnCalc(var value: Variant);
var s: string;
begin
  s := 'SELECT Shelf FROM ST_ITEM ' +
        'WHERE CODE=' + QuotedStr(Document_Detail.GetFieldValue('ItemCode'));
  if Trim(DBSQL_GetFieldValue(s)) <> '' then
    Value := Trim(DBSQL_GetFieldValue(s));
end;

08. Click File | Save As & enter New report Name after done

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