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    Need access to report source code or way to do find / replace

    Is there any way I can do a 'find/replace all' on a report?

    I have a complex report within a set whose detail field has a conditional object with 16 options each of which also contains an RTF field with an additional if then, else... equation.

    Is there any way I can do a replace all on the report as I know from experience that editing through the GUI will introduce corruption.

    So far I've tried:

    Replace all on the .SEM file - results in a corrupt set
    Export layout - unintelligible output

    Thanks for any help/pointers.
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    Re: Need access to report source code or way to do find / replace

    Hi Jon,

    As the layout is not a text document I don't thing there is a simple 'find/replace all'.

    Looks like going through all 16 layers of your conditional object.

    Another way of doing this is to built separate reports and call them conditionally. Maybe you would end up with 4 reports with only 4 conditions on each report.
    Regards
    Keith Hubert
    Alpha Guild Member
    London.
    KHDB Management Systems
    Skype = keith.hubert


    For your day-to-day Needs, you Need an Alpha Database!

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      #3
      Re: Need access to report source code or way to do find / replace

      Keith,

      Thanks for the response. I already have 2 versions which are called conditionally, but it may be worth splitting further to avoid future problems when I have future updates.

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        #4
        Re: Need access to report source code or way to do find / replace

        You should be able to use the Object Explorer to make changes rather than selecting each object on each pane of the conditional.
        There can be only one.

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          #5
          Re: Need access to report source code or way to do find / replace

          Why don't you do find/replace on all RTF's in the table before printing?
          If you wish to preserve the original text, add another field.

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            #6
            Re: Need access to report source code or way to do find / replace

            Looks like I can't use the Object Explorer as the RTF either holds too much data to show in the OE, or the conditions aren't visible. This might have resolved the issue of corruption during the edits, but I'd still have to select each affected object to edit it.

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              #7
              Re: Need access to report source code or way to do find / replace

              Originally posted by G Gabriel View Post
              Why don't you do find/replace on all RTF's in the table before printing?
              If you wish to preserve the original text, add another field.
              Not sure what you're getting at here. I'm trying to edit a report to replace one field used in a formula with another one. The formulae are held in RTF objects which are within conditional fields.

              Thanks for the replies, but it looks like there's no simple way to do this.

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                #8
                Re: Need access to report source code or way to do find / replace

                G's idea of making another field that is preprocessed prior to the report is the best approach.

                Use an update operation to build the value in the RTF field. You can review that process until it's correct and then the report is very simple.
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                  #9
                  Re: Need access to report source code or way to do find / replace

                  Thanks to you all for the ideas. Looks like I'll have to either have to start from scratch or go through the pain of amending each entry individually.

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                    #10
                    Re: Need access to report source code or way to do find / replace

                    Jon,

                    I think you have just taught yourself a very valuable lesson. While Alpha is very clever at doing what can be very complicated tasks, because it is being done on a computer, as humans we must remember the golden rule, KISS.

                    Also, what will it take if I need to make a change.
                    Regards
                    Keith Hubert
                    Alpha Guild Member
                    London.
                    KHDB Management Systems
                    Skype = keith.hubert


                    For your day-to-day Needs, you Need an Alpha Database!

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                      #11
                      Re: Need access to report source code or way to do find / replace

                      I can't quite comment on whether it is doable the way you want to do it or not and if doable how, simply because A-I don't have v10 and B-It is my understanding that v10 allows the ability do drill down the report.. so maybe it is doable post-printing so to speak.. but you could accomplish the same thing pre-printing.. so why fight that monster?!

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                        #12
                        Re: Need access to report source code or way to do find / replace

                        OK, I bit the bullet and split the report into 4. Each containing a few conditional fields instead of all 16!

                        As I duplicated the original to build each new report, it was simply a matter of deleting the unwanted conditional expressions then modifying the remaining ones to use the correct formula. What a surprise that just 12 hours later I noticed that I needed to amend the header - 4 times!

                        Thanks again to all for your suggestions.

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                          #13
                          Re: Need access to report source code or way to do find / replace

                          Hi Jon,

                          To amend the header 4 times must of taken all of 3 minutes after you had done the first one!!!

                          Are you now sorted as to how each report is to be selected?
                          Regards
                          Keith Hubert
                          Alpha Guild Member
                          London.
                          KHDB Management Systems
                          Skype = keith.hubert


                          For your day-to-day Needs, you Need an Alpha Database!

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                            #14
                            Re: Need access to report source code or way to do find / replace

                            Keith,

                            Report selection was never an issue as I already had if..then..else statements in place as I apply a different query filter for each permutation. For info it took me 4.5 minutes to modify the 8 (2 batches of 4) headers.

                            Case closed!

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