Importing subreport?

cypherdj

Hi,

I've read through the tutorial on master/details reports, but it doesn't seem to solve my requirement.

Let's consider a 1st report, customerContact.rptdesign, which takes a parameter customerNo and displays the customer address and phone number in a table.

Let's also consider a 2nd report, customerOrders.rptdesign, which also takes a parameter customerNo and displays the table of all orders for this customer (order no, date, total).

Now, I'd like to consolidate those 2 reports in a single "master" report, but I'd also like the possibility of running the subreports independently.

I'm assuming one way to address this would be to create a report library, but is there a simpler way in which the subreports could simply be "imported" into the master, ideally in the similar way to which we build drill-through links?

From my search on the forums, it would appear this is not currently supported, but most posts date back to prior to Birt2.0 release, so I'm hoping there might have been some developments in this area since then,

Many thanks in advance,
Cedric

mwilliams

Hi Cedric,

How would you determine which setup you want to show, i.e. just customer info, just orders by customer, or both? If you'd use a parameter to determine that, you could make all three tables in your one report and drop the ones you don't need based on this parameter. Then, you could have drill throughs to this same report with different options using this parameter. Let me know.