GNostice Excel Output on Webtier

rbuser

Hello

Please can someone provide an example for using GNostice on the webtier,
there are only examples for using waler, pragmaan and Excel

Cheers

Paul

nardmoseley

We do not have an example, but it should be simple to adapt either the
TmyXLSWalerAdapter or TmyXLSPragnaanAdapter classes includes with the Excel
example.

1. copy the myWebAdapterXLSPragnaan.pas unit and resave to
myWebAdapaterXLSGnostice.pas

2. replace all occurences of 'Pragnaan' with 'Gnostice'

3. Modify the implementation 'uses' clause. Remove the references to the two
units PsRBExport_Main and
PsRBExport_Excel. Add references to relevant Gnostice units.

4. Modify the single line of code in the CreateDevice method to create the
Gnostice XLS device.

5. Replace the two lines of code in the ConfigureDevice method to configure
the Gnostice device rather than the Pragnaan device. (I do not know what if
any Gnostice properties need to be set here. Ask Gnostice). This is the one
method that differs between Waler and Gnostice. It really just has to do
with suppressing any dialogs and setting any excel specific output options
that the device class contains.

rbuser

Hi Nard

I only have a trial of GNostice, so cant see the source code, but it is
appearing as though the Excel device does not inherit from ppDevice?

I havent heard anything from Gnostice

Cheers

Paul

nardmoseley

All of the third party add-on devices that produce file based output,
descend from TppFileDevice (a descendant of TppDevice).

Are you able to install Gnostice and use it in a simple form based windows
app? Once you install Gnostice at Delphi design-time, you should see
additional formats listed for the Report.DeviceType property in the object
inspector.

rbuser

Hi Paul,

I don't see an email in support about this particular issue. But anyway, the
necessary source for the Export Interfaces can be found in the Source folder of
Gnostice eDocEngine, even in the trial version.

To answer this question, the Excel device DOES descend from TppFileDevice and
then get all the work done from the main Excel Engine. If this is not solved
yet, please email us with the unfinished .pas files and we should be able to
modify them.

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Girish Patil
Gnostice Information Technologies www.gnostice.com
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