report & global variables

tomM21

hi, im struggling with a report:
in the OnPreReport Section i do a lot of calculations which i need for the rest of the report. i pass some of the result into global variables, but as soon as i try tio access their value within the individual pages, eg: OnAfterGetRecord, they are blank / null.
how can i get this?
thx tom

Belias

remember that onaftergetrecord triggers before onpresection of body section(for the same dataitem), so if you evaluate something in onpresection, don't expect to find that value before

tomM21

order of execution:
1)OnPreReport
2)OnPreDataItem (1.st DataItem)
3)OnAfterGetRecord

> so my qyestion is: if i set a global variable in 1), why is it not available in 2&3?

thx tom

Belias

sorry, my brain interpreted this

OnPreReport Section

with "OnPreSection" #-o

anyway, did you already tried to debug the code?it should help you a lot. Also, have you developed this report from the beginning or are you modifying somone else's one? (maybe he has done some tricky things you don't know e.g.: properties, skips and breaks and so on...)

MBerger

tomM21 wrote:

order of execution:
1)OnPreReport
2)OnPreDataItem (1.st DataItem)
3)OnAfterGetRecord

> so my qyestion is: if i set a global variable in 1), why is it not available in 2&3?

thx tom

It should be available....are you sure you don't have a global AND local ( local for the OnPreReport ) variable with the same name ?

tomM21

ok works now. i had a CREATETOTALS for that variable in a subdataitem, somehow it screw it up.

thx
tom