Hi All,
A thought I had! The most common enhancement to my dabo application is new
report formats (changes or additions). Because of the nature of the report
writer and the way reports are run it means adding code to the main app and
redistributing an updated version to all users. My thought was that if a
generalised report runner was included in my app I would only need to
distribute text and/or xml files to add new reports. To explain - if I had an
xml or text file per report which included the descriptive name of the report,
connection name, sql statement and report definition file name then a
generalised routine (optionally stand-alone or alternatively embedded in the
application) could do the following :-
read all report text files
display a drop down list of available reports (descriptive name)
upon selection of a list item
get the connection
create a dataset from the sql statement
run the specified report and display the pdf
To add a new report would just need the relevant report text file, cdxml file
and rfxml files loaded in the app directory.
Of course two other thoughts come to mind
- all the data in the report text file could be included in the
rfxml file.
- A stand-alone user friendly ad-hoc report generator could be
developed from this base utilising the report designer as a starting point.
Has anyone else had thoughts or done anything along these lines? Any
suggestions?
Roger
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