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 you had to self query to get the extra information.

Example 1 - Get Shelf Field from Maintain Item

Below is Example are doing following actions using Variable

• At Sales Invoice to get Shelf field from Maintain Item

Last Script Update : 12 Oct 2015

Steps

01. Click on SubRptNorm: Document_Detail

02. Select the Variable button (the Calculator icon)

03. Click on the place to be print/shown.

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'));
  Value := Trim(DBSQL_GetFieldValue(s));
end;

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

Example 2 - Get Picture Field from Maintain Item

• More coming soon...

See also

• Report Designer
• Others Customisation