Report Builder - Get Data Directly from DB

From eStream Software

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.

Steps

Using Variable

Example 1 - Get Shelf Field from Maintain Item

Below is Example are doing following actions

  • At Sales Invoice to get Shelf field from Maintain Item

Last Script Update : 12 Oct 2015

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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
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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
  • More coming soon...

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