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There are two basic approaches to using ReportBuilder to implement web applications.
1. ReportBuilder Server Edition
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.
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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
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.
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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors Corporation
http://www.digital-metaphors.com
Best regards,
Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors
www.digital-metaphors.com