I am using BO 5.1.8. Currently in my ASP application I am allowing the user to view/print one customer report at a time. But my requirement is to allow user to select any number of customers by putting a check mark against a list of customer name so that user can view/print customers. This is a kind of Group report printing. Is grouping is possible in BO ? So that I can group customers and user can select customer range and view/print those customers selected.
Thanks in advance for any suggestion or help in this regard.
It sounds like you want to filter customers (he says, in his best Clippit voice). Try filtering customers and then printing the report. You may need to create a page break after each customer if you haven’t done so already.
If that’s not the case, please can you provide a more detailed example so that we can offer better help.
Mark, let me explain it to you by giving you a simple example below. Since I don’t know how to insert an image I have put the things by giving there names at appropriate places.(Any suggestion how to insert an image) I hope that it makes the things more clear.
where checkbox1…checkbox6 means they are checkboxes and customer1…customer6 are the customer names. View and Print are command buttons. Clicking the view button will display all the selected customers and clicking the print button will print all the selected customers. Curently users can select only one customer to view/print. But I want to enhance it for group viewing/printing. I have done it using crystal report where there is a provision to insert group like customer id so that we can put all the information of a customer in a group and whenever a new id comes it displays new customer description. But I am unable to do it in Business Object.
I’m not particularly au fait with asp, but it sounds like you need some code to handle the checkbox inputs supporting the print buttons.
You say that users can only view/print one at the moment - is that a code limitation or simply a case of changing the radio buttons to checkboxes?
Mods - should this be moved to SDK, given that an ASP solution will be required?
Mark, please correct me if I am wrong can I use master detail report here. I will take customer name/id as master and its description as detail also by giving an extra prompt of customer name I can allow users to select more than one customer and based on the selected customers I can print the report.