Lets say you need to create a combined PDF document that contains a letter, multiple reports and a graph all created from different database files<\/p>\n
VPE for Visual DataFlex contains a feature to help a developer with this.<\/p>\n
By default each VPE Report or document creates its own VPE document object that can be printed, previewed, saved, etc.<\/p>\n
There is a feature in VPE for VDF that allows the developer to instruct VPE for VDF to instead of creating a new document append the new document or report to an existing document<\/p>\n
Say we have a report called oLetterToClient and a report called oCustomerOpenInvoices as well as a chart called oCustomerSalesChart.<\/p>\n
We could use the following code to create a combined document<\/p>\n
\/\/ run the first report\r\n\/\/ this will create a new VPE document\r\nSend StartReport to oLetterToClient \r\n\r\n\/\/ advance to the next page\r\nSend DoVpePageBreak to oLetterToClient\r\n\r\n\/\/ tell the next report not to create a document\r\n\/\/ but to simply use the one we created earlier\r\nSet pbCreateDocument of oCustomerOpenInvoices to false\r\nSet pbShareDocumentFromDisplay of oCustomerOpenInvoices to true\r\nSet phoDocumentDisplay of oCustomerOpenInvoices to oLetterToClient\r\nSend StartReport to oCustomerOpenInvoices\r\n\r\n\/\/ advance to the next page\r\nSend DoVpePageBreak to oLetterToClient\r\n\r\n\/\/ and the same with the next report\r\nSet pbCreateDocument of oCustomerSalesChart to false\r\nSet pbShareDocumentFromDisplay of oCustomerSalesChart to true\r\nSet phoDocumentDisplay of oCustomerSalesChart to oLetterToClient\r\nSend StartReport to oCustomerSalesChart\r\n\r\n\/\/ now we have a combined document in oLetterToClient\r\nSend DoVpePreviewDoc to oLetterToClient VPE_SHOW_NORMAL\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\nif you just want to call the same report or document multiple times and append them together into a single document that is even easier<\/p>\n
the first time you run the report or document set the\u00a0pbCreateDocument property to true and then for any subsequent runs set it to false. This will create a new document the first time. Make sure to call DoVpePageBreak to advance the page<\/p>\n
\/\/ run report the first time\r\nSet pbCreateDocument of oMyReport to true\r\nSend PreviewReport TO (oVpeDocument(Self)) VPE_SHOW_NORMAL\r\n\r\n.. change selections, etc\r\n\r\n\/\/ advance page\r\nSend DoVpePageBreak to oMyReport\r\n\r\n\/\/ run report again but into same document\r\nSet pbCreateDocument of oMyReport to false\r\nSend PreviewReport TO (oVpeDocument(Self)) VPE_SHOW_NORMAL\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/p>\n
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