IntraWeb Application using ReportBuilder

rbuser

Hi!

I need to know if is possible use ReportBuilder into a WebApplication based
in Intraweb.

Could you show me a sample? how can I do that?

I use RB v6.03 for Delphi 5 and RB v7 for Delphi 7.

Thank in Advance!



Andr?s Chac?n Vald?s
Maracaibo - Venezuela.

nardmoseley

Please see the following article.

Also note that RB 7 was the first thread-safe version of ReportBuilder. I
do not recommend using RB 6.x in any kind of multi-threaded environment.


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Article: ReportBuilder and IntraWeb
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There are two basic approaches to using ReportBuilder to implement web
applications.

1. ReportBuilder Server Edition

Live Demo: www.digital-metaphors.com/RBServerLive

Features:
http://www.digital-metaphors.com/Subpages/Products/Server/Features.html


ReportBuilder Server Edition contains the most comprehensive,
productive,high performance solution available. The Server Edition enables
you to build a multi-tier web solution within a few hours of installating
the product. Spend an afternoon with the trial version to evaluate it. The
Server has the ability to incrementally generate pages on demand and the
WebTier performs session management, caching, and generates a high quality
xhtml/javascript
report previewer.

The demos included with RB Server Edition contain examples of using the RB
Server's WebTier component within Delphi Web Broker apps: ISAPI, ASP .Net,
Apache.

For integration with an IntraWeb app, there are two options you can
research:

a. Use the RB WebTier and Delphi's Web Broker to build an ISAPI application.
Then call the reports by passing an appropriate URL to the Web Server. This
option is definitely doable.

b. Use the RB WebTier within the IntraWeb app itself. We have not tried this
option. The WebTier requires that the web request sent to the Web
application be passed thru to it. I think once you spend time with RB Server
Trial Edition and tutorials in the Server Developers Guide you can determine
whether this is feasable.


2. Build your own

The other approach to implementing publishing reports to the web is to use
any of the ReportBuilder Editions to impelement your own web solution.

a. Make sure that you provide a thread-safe container for the report to
execute.
b. Make sure that no dialogs are displayed by the report (i.e. set
Report.ShowPrintDialog, ShowCancelDialog, etc to False.
c. Set Report.EnableProcessMessages to False.

The simplest solution to implementing your own server is to generate the
reports to PDF return them (or a link to them) to the web browser. A more
complex solution would involve creating a custom report viewer as is done by
ReportBuilder Server Edition:

www.digital-metaphors.com/RBServerLive



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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors Corporation
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

Thanks for your answer, I will work with RB 7 for your suggestion.

Now, could you send me a sample project to make possible show a HTMLreport
in a intraweb application using ReportBuilder 7 ?

Thanks in advance