ActiveReports 9
Drill-Through Reports
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The following procedures illustrate how to create a drill-through link to another report containing details about the linked item.

The walkthrough is split into the following activities:

Note:
  • This walkthrough uses tables from the Reels database. By default, in ActiveReports, the Reels.mdb file is located in the [User Documents folder]\GrapeCity Samples\ActiveReports 9\Data folder.
  • Although this walkthrough uses Page reports, but this can be implemented using RDL reports also.

When you complete this walkthrough you get a layout that looks similar to the following at runtime.

Runtime Layout (main report)

Runtime Layout (detail report)

To create the main report

To connect the main report to a data source and add a dataset

To create a layout for the main report

To create the detail report

To connect the detail report to a data source

To add a dataset with a parameter

To add a dataset to populate the parameter values

To add a parameter to the report

To create a layout for the detail report

To add a drill-through link to the main report

To view the report

 

 


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