Copy an embedded image from one report to another

Hello!

I am writing a wizard in MFC which automatically creates reports from a database. One required feature of this wizard is that it should be possible to give the path of a template report from which I copy the Report/Page Header/Footer to the newly created report. This works quite fine, with one exception: I cannot copy embedded images. When queried for their type, they say "OleObject", so I thought, I get the IPictureDisp object by calling "GetFormattedPicture", save the image to a temporary file and insert a new OleObject into the new report by giving the file location in the method call "AddPictureObject" of the respective section.
The problem is that I get an "E_ACCESSDENIED" error when I call the GetFormattedPicture method. The help says that the property "Can be read or written only when top-level Report object is formatting active."
Does anyone have a hint how to solve this problem

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Copy an embedded image from one report to another

Matt Milner - Pluralsight
Sorry, I don't quite understand what this means. Do you have a code example for this
Robert Bruckner
Hello,

The formatting active part means that you need to be processing the report and then you would use the Section Format() event to get the object.

Keith - Business Objects
Copy an embedded image from one report to another

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