New Report Features for Visual FoxPro 9.0

The OLD Reporting System Good: Handles data well Handles data well Handles layout of objects well Handles layout of objects wellBad: Printing exclusively All-in-one design Designer has poor UI Single siblings only

Goals Protect existing FRX investments Open architecture

How to improve? Add new engine capability: Multiple Detail Bands Enhance the designer: Report Builder Split the output from the engine: ReportListener Class

Multiple Detail Bands Allow multiple 1-∞ siblings to be presented in a report. One 1-Many Relation Can be done with current reports. Two 1-Many Relations Now easy to do with multidetail bands!

Multiple Detail Bands You can use Multidetail Bands to: Improve existing reports Improve existing reports Create complex reports quicker Create complex reports quicker Show information that would take 2 reports, or a lot of preprocessing in a simple report Show information that would take 2 reports, or a lot of preprocessing in a simple report

Multiple Detail Bands Demos

Report Builder Simplify existing Report Designer UI Report/Bands and Objects all have more functional UI Report/Bands and Objects all have more functional UI Adds new features Protection Protection Data Environment Data Environment Absolute Positioning Absolute PositioningCustomizable

Report Builder Demos

Q&A Q&ALunch

New Report Features for Visual FoxPro 9.0 Part 2

Review Add new engine capability: Multiple Detail Bands Enhance the designer: Report Builder Split the output from the engine: ReportListener Class

ReportListener Class Gives you control over the report output Base class provides printing, previewing & image types. XBase classes handle XML, HTML. Allows output to be customized during runtime.

ReportListener

ReportListener Class Demos