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DataWindow Painter
DataWindow Painter/Control
Data Sources
Presentation Styles
DataWindow Options
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DataWindow Painter
DataWindow Painter/Control
DataWindow painter allows creating DataWindow objects.
DataWindow control acts as a container to the DataWindow object.
DataWindow object contains data source definition and presentation details.
Functions/Scripts are written to the DataWindow control.
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DataWindow Painter
DataWindow Painter/Control
Data Sources
Presentation Styles
DataWindow Options
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DataWindow Painter
Data Source
Quick Select
SQL Select
Query
External
Stored Procedure
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Quick Select
Allows defining data source quickly for a single or multiple tables that have relation.
Rarely used data source.
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SQL Select
Allows defining complex SQL statements.
Most widely used data source.
Allows WHERE, ORDER BY, GROUP BY, HAVING clauses.
Allows Computed Columns, Retrieval arguments, UNIONs.
Can convert to Syntax mode.
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Query as Data Source
Allows using a defined query as a data source.
After definition, it is similar to the SQL Select data source.
The Query and DataWindow data source are not dynamically linked, the query is copied to the DataWindow definition.
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DataWindow Painter
External Data Source
Allows you to take advantage of DataWindow’s powerful features --such as sort, filter, find, print preview, print, data sharing, presentation styles, etc. without using database as a data source.
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Stored Procedure as Data Source
Most widely used data source with SQL Server.
Reduces network traffic, improves performance.
DataWindow can’t handle multiple result sets, return status, OUTPUT parameters.
DataWindows are not updatable by default.
Feature not available in desktop editions.
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DataWindow Painter
DataWindow Painter/Control
Data Sources
Presentation Styles
DataWindow Options
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DataWindow Painter
Presentation Styles
Free Form
Tabular
Grid
Label
N-Up
Crosstab
Graph
RichTextEdit
Composite
OLE
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Free Form Presentation Style
All data is placed in the detail band.
Looks similar to a form and is good for data entry and queries.
Labels are placed left side to the fields.
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Tabular Presentation Style
Data is placed in the detail band and headings are in the header band.
Labels are not used, instead headings are used.
Each record occupies one line.
Good for displaying long record reports.
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Grid Presentation Style
Provides spreadsheet like interface.
At run-time, columns can be moved/ resized by the user.
Behaves like tabular style when grid is turned off.
Fields can’t be moved at painting time in the design view.
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Label Presentation Style
Good to generate labels.
Labels can be customized.
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N-Up Presentation Style
Provides news paper/telephone directory like interface.
Allows good space utilization while printing few fields.
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Crosstab Presentation Style
Provides two-dimensional spreadsheet like interface.
Reduces 100s of lines of coding.
Can create columns dynamically on the fly.
One of the great report style that no other tool provides.
External Data Source can’t be used.
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Graph Presentation Style
Presents data in graphical format with no or very little programming.
Supports bar, column, stack, area, pie, time graphs.
Supports 2D and 3D graphs.
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RichTextEdit Presentation Style
Displays data in rich text format including different font attributes for each letter or word --such as bold, italic, strike, underline, font, color.
It also includes special characters such as tabs, new line, etc.
Supports toolbar, popup menu.
Reads/ Saves in RTF format.
Not supported in distributed computing.
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Composite Presentation Style
Allows to create a DataWindow using two DataWindows objects.
DataWindow is not updatable.
Useful when two reports are related.
Good for printing two reports side by side or a report followed another with no extra pages.
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OLE Presentation Style
Displays data using any OLE 2.0 server.
OLE 2.0 presentation style DataWindow is not updatable.
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DataWindow Painter
DataWindow Painter/Control
Data Sources
Presentation Styles
DataWindow Options
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DataWindow Painter
DataWindow Options
Retrieve As Only Needed
Retain Data
Auto Size Height
Suppress Repeating Values
Validation Rule
Initial Values
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DataWindow Painter
Retrieve As Only Needed
Useful to simulate quick response queries.
Retrieves only those rows that fit in the DataWindow control at a time.
Holds up lot of resources on the server side and might be a bottle-neck for performance.
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Retain Data
Can store data as part of the DataWindow definition in the library painter.
Displays the stored data without issuing Retrieve().
Useful for prototype applications.
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Auto Size Height Option
Adjusts the row size automatically depending on the data.
Good feature to save a lot of space in reports.
The detail band set to ‘Auto Size Height’ when a nested DataWindow object is inserted in the detail band.
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Suppress Repeating Values
Suppresses repeating values of the specified fields.
Gives ‘Group’ presentation style affect without using ‘Group’ presentation style.
Does not affect DataWindow update properties.
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Validation Rules
If defined in extended attributes, validation rule is imported into DataWindow automatically.
Can be defined for each DataWindow field.
Any DataWindow painter function, user-defined function can be used.
Datatype is automatically converted in comparisons, if not converted.
Has no relation with the server-side rules.
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Initial Values
If defined in extended attributes, initial value is imported into DataWindow automatically.
Can be specified for each DataWindow field.
Has no relation with the server-side initial value.
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DataWindow Painter
DataWindow Painter/Control
Data Sources
Presentation Styles
DataWindow Options
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