Changeover from Quickreports / QRDesign

rbuser

I am replacing a reporting interface for an application that up until now
has used the above products.
To maintain features already available in existing app I need to do the
following :-

Provide a basic set of customisable reports.
Provide the ability for the user to define their own reports,

Thats easy... but now for the harder bit,

The current app allows for disabling certain reports for certain users - am
I able to manipulate the report explorer to this extent?

Also the app chooses different versions of reports to run based on choices
made in the data. eg Different job types automatically run a different
invoice template, the template to use is defined by a set of options
maintained by the user. How can this be acheived by the report explorer?

Have I understood the docs correctly when they seem to suggest that end user
reports can only use the database method of storing report layouts and not
report template files?

Thanks in advance
Rhonda Ridge
Ab Initio Software
www.abinitiosoftware.co.uk

digitalmetaphors

You can provide reports that are customizable by using the TppDesigner
component hooked up to a TppReport component. You can load report templates
into this report object and show the designer. User's can also create new
reports using this component. There are examples of this in the end user
demos of our installation. There is also plenty of good end user and
delpoyment information in the Developer's Guide pdf located in the
installation root directory.

The report explorer is designed to manage the report templates which are
stored in a database.

To disable current reports for certain users, simply take on eof our end
user database demos, and add a field on the database for access rights. Then
filter the rbFolder and rbItem table datasets on the form before showing the
report explorer.

Using the report explorer, you can see all of the templates and load any one
that you want. At runtime, you can do this by calling
Report.Template.LoadFromDatabase after you configure the
Report.Template.DataSettings property to pick the report that you want to
load/save

The ReportExplorer is designed to work only on databased report templates,
not file based report templates. If you just want to preview/print reports
from the client, our server edition allows you to build a thin client
application using the ClientReportExplorer which can print reports from the
server. The server can have reports that are template based (file or
database), archives, or form based reports. There is also a WebTier which
allows you to publish the same reports over the web and a javascript/xhtml
web report explorer is created for the client browser to show the reports
which looks like the standard TppReportExplorer component.

Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors