Supported platforms
Supported platforms: Windows 2000, XP,
Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 (32 bits and 64 bits).
Required disk space: 200
MB (not including your databases).
DBMS
connection
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Supported connection technologies :
Microsoft ADO (or "OLEDB"), Microsoft ODBC, Borland BDE,
and native access to Text Files, Microsoft Excel,
Microsoft Jet, Interbase.
Note : ADO, ODBC and BDE
drivers are not supplied.
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Connection re-routing and
merging facility.
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Supported DBMSs: Oracle, SQL
Server, MS-Access, MySQL, Paradox...
Report editor
- Powerful and user-friendly report editor
- Design wizard,
working both in create and edit mode.
- SQL query editor.
- Syntax-highlighting formula editor
- Document
framework editor.
- Comprehensive property editor.
- Direct report script edit window.
Reports
- Data sources: data can be retrieved from
databases or supplied by external applications.
- Output: display to
standard or custom window, print, email, visual export
(PDF, HTML, RTF, Synactis Archive, Synactis standalone
Archive, BMP, JPEG, EMF), data export (TXT, XML,
MS-Excel, MS-Word, MS-Word MailMerge, Data Warehouse).
- Supported objects: images, rich texts, bar-codes, business
charts, tables of contents, visual models, hyperlinks,
calculation formulae...
- Dynamic layout: dynamic
sizing and positioning, automatic field alignment,
logical conditions...
- Sub-reports
- Can change paper
size and orientation inside a report.
Programming
interfaces
REPORTMAKER offers 3 equivalent
object-oriented APIs. Each API contains about 300
programming symbols (methods, properties and events):
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ActiveX
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Delphi (in Win 32 mode): versions 5, 6, 7, 2007,
2009, 2010, XE, XE2, XE3, XE4, XE5, XE6, XE7,
XE8
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DLL: based
on a plain dynamic link library.
Application
deployment
REPORTMAKER contains an End-User site
building utility. This utility packs together all files
necessary to operate reports on end-user sites and
automates installation.
| A REPORTRETOUCHER licence is
required on each End-User site. Licences may be
purchased by Developers either on a per-unit basis or globally
within an OEM agreement. |
Data dictionaries
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Data dictionaries store relevant information about
tables, fields, views and parameters.
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Automatic
synchronizing with DBMS structure.
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Dictionary
inheritance mechanism designed for giving full control
and security to software publishers.
Language
management
- Software and documentation are
bilingual (English and French).
- Data dictionaries can
support an unlimited number of languages and store
linguistic informations (such as field descriptions,
display formats, etc) in every language.
- The Design
Wizard creates multilingual reports: document language
can be changed at any time when viewing a report.
External libraries
Custom plug-in libraries can
be written by Developers and installed in
REPORTMAKER environment to implement additional features:
- New
functions to be supported by calculation formulae
- New
displayers, to give custom appearances to reports
fields.
REPORTRETOUCHER
- Can retouch reports created by
REPORTMAKER, according to retouch rights
defined at design time.
- Direct selection on the
screen of items to be retouched (WYSIWYG, no design window).
- Can move and resize fields using the mouse.
- Can edit:
images, constant values, fonts, text angle, colors,
formats, horizontal and vertical alignments, background
styles, borders.
- Can hide and unmask fields.
- Can
create constant fields.
- Can change and edit document
visual models.
- Can edit margins.
- Can be used as a
document viewer to display, print, export or email
reports.
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