Active Reports

28 July 2015

Prepare & Presented By Gandhi V

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AT A GLANCE

Introduction

Layout Sections

Controls & Properties

Data Source

Scripting & Coding

Demo Project

Compare with crystal report

Limitation

Q&A

Thank You

1 Introduction

Introduction of Active Reports Active Reports is a .NET reporting tool used by developers of Windows

application and ASP.NET applications.

It was originally developed by Data Dynamics, which was then acquired by

Grape City.

It will support C# and Vb.Net language.

Active Reports Released Versions 3,6,7,7sp1,8,9.

Export Options for PDF (with advanced security support), Excel, Word, RTF,

HTML, Text, XML, and TIFF.

File Format: .rpx (Retrieval Raw Pixel) denotes a active reports layout file.

Active reports 3.0 working in visual studio 2008 (Framework3.5 and less).

Introduction of Active Reports

1 Layout Sections

Layout Section in Active Reports

Active Report

•Report Start•Report End•Page Start•Page End•Data Initialize•Fetch Data•No Data

Report Header

•Format•After Print•Before Print

Report Footer

•Format•After Print•Before Print

Page Header

•Format•After Print•Before Print

Page Footer

•Format•After Print•Before Print

Group Header (Optional)

•Format•After Print•Before Print

Group Footer (Optional)

•Format•After Print•Before Print

Detail

•Format•After Print•Before Print

1 Controls & Properties

Controls & Properties in Active Reports

1 Data Source

Data Source in Active Reports

1 Scripting & Coding

Scripting & Coding in Active Reports

There are two types of way write code active reports.

Scripting

VB Coding

DEMO

1 Compare with Crystal Reports

Compare with Crystal ReportsFeatures Active Reports Crystal Reports

Dynamic Scripting Yes No

File Format XML (.RPX)Editable with Notepad

Binary (.RPT) Uses SDKs to access objects.

Sub-reports 20 levels deepObject based reporting improves on sub-report

One level deep

Designer Interface Object based Banded

Extensibility Open architecture Closed architecture

CSS Minimal support Supported

Formula Library 13 financial functions6 date functions

50+ financial functions48 date functions

Data Connectivity Shared data sources Single point of entryCR Server - Shared data source

Latest Version v.9 v.14.1

Environment Microsoft Visual Studio Users can also access Crystal Reports from outside of Microsoft environments. Java developers to build applications with Crystal Reports components.

1 Limitation of Active Reports

Limitation of Active Reports Border Height Problem in details section.

Cannot call business object in sub report.

The size of Dot and Dash (the Line Style property) is not exactly the same.

The z-index is not correctly imported.

The HorizontalAlignment property is always set as “Left”.

The CanGrow, CharacterSpacing, TextRotationAngle and HyperlinkText pro

perties are not imported

Q&A

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