Blank Reports

[John]

I am creating a pdf report programmatically to be sent as an email attachment in my app. The reports work fine on my development machine (XP), however when I run it on a Vista test machine, only the header, footer, and one group label shows up on the report. This seems to have something to do with the size of the report since the group label did not show either until I reduced the width of the page.

Any help would be much appreciated

Thanks
John

[Steve]

Hi John,

If this works fine on your machine and you have not altered the report size, then we do not see how this could happen. Please check your connectionString - whether you're connecting to the database server and pulling up data correctly. The easiest way would be to see if you can preview any data from your dataadapters.

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Steve
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[John]

I can preview the reports just fine. I did notice that in the generated source for the report there is a connection string. I used the wizard to create the report so that's probably how it got there. How can I make the report use the connection string in the app config file? Is this possible when I used the wizard to create the report?

Thank You
John

[Steve]

Hi John,

Well, that is exactly what I meant in my previous reply - the connectionString should be different on the new machine and needs to be changed. Whether you would do this by hand through the dataset property grid (see screenshot) or in the app config file is up to you. If the latter, the following code library should be of assistance: Use the connectionString from your app's config file.

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Steve
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