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Why Use The Denkh HTML Reporter

Why Use The Denkh HTML Reporter. Scott Auge Amduus Information Works, Inc. Audience. IT Decision Makers Programmers Report Seekers. What is it?. A report writer! Generate reports without the need of coding, compiling, and releasing program modules…

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Why Use The Denkh HTML Reporter

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  1. Why UseThe Denkh HTML Reporter Scott Auge Amduus Information Works, Inc.

  2. Audience • IT Decision Makers • Programmers • Report Seekers

  3. What is it? • A report writer! • Generate reports without the need of coding, compiling, and releasing program modules… • But still powerful enough to integrate with programmer’s works.

  4. What is it? • A report generator! • Users can search for a report • The report requests input parameters from the user • The report is presented to the user

  5. What is it? • A report manager! • Provides a repository of multiple reports. • Create, Modify, and Delete reports.

  6. Run Through….Choose a report to run…

  7. Run Through…Run the report

  8. Run Through…The report!

  9. Quick Feature List • Webize your character or GUI application • Use it to provide inquiry and lookups for your web based application!!! • • Develop reports without Provision, Crystal Reports, or Report Builder! No compiling needed! • Easy formatting of data and data layout • Subtotalling! • Drill down into other reports • Specify Column Headings

  10. Quick Feature List Continued • Side-labels for each field can be specified for each report layout • Page totals, sub-totals & totals (without turning into a pretzel) • Since it is on the web, Preview or print to screen with optional paper printing later on • Open Source so you can modify look and feel, as well research “how it does it.” • Use HTML Editors to develop your report sections (then cut and paste the code in and out of the editor)

  11. Quick Features List Continued • Dynamic queries defined by the user • Format reports using HTML/CSS2 for a more polished look • Ability to include embedded reports within reports (a report repository) • Ability to embed data fields from the query into the report • Ability to embed page breaks into the report • Ability to ask the report user questions for report parameters

  12. Quick Features List Continued • Ability to restrict which tables the report generator can reach • Ability to look into Progress, Oracle, and ODBC based databases • Web based so it can be reached easily by people (include in your portal!) • Call out to Progress 4GL programs from within a report (good for integration) • Use session variables within a report (good for integration) • Include date and time within a report

  13. Quick Features List Continued • Include user’s input in the output of the report • Ability to access rowid of records in report (good for integration) • PDF/MS Word documentation • Report examples/Source Code examples • Easy to use report listing system with search by name functionality

  14. Quick Features List Continued • Make “green bar” reports • Make letter based reports • Make sophisticated layouts reports • Include your logo/images in reports • Use different types of fonts in your reports

  15. Integrate into existing systems • Use the tables available in existing Progress and non-Progress applications: • QAD • Dispatch-1 • Internally Developed

  16. Data Sources • Progress RDBMS • Oracle via the Progress Data Server • MS SQL via the Progress Data Server • Other ODBC via the Progress Data Server • Other….

  17. Ease of support • Uses a web browser as the client • All company users can view the reports with included software (Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla) • No program installations to be needed on the user’s computer. • Integrate into the company intranet/extranet portal.

  18. Skills needed to create reports • An understanding of HTML • An understanding of the tables within the application • An understanding of the Denkh HTML Reporter macro’s (See accompanying presentation) • An understanding of preparing queries • Training is available from Amduus Information Works, Inc.

  19. Infrastructure Needed • A database to use for report data • Webspeed Transaction Server • If using a non-Progress database, then the appropriate Data Server • A web server • A web browser

  20. Open Source • If you need to better understand the system, one can read the code. • Easier integration with other applications • Organizations sometimes share code with Amduus allowing additional features to become available.

  21. More information • Contact Scott Auge at Amduus Information Works, Inc. At sauge@amduus.com • Contact James Arnold at Analyst’s Express, Inc. At 888-889-9091

  22. About Amduus Information Works, Inc.http://www.amduus.com • United States Based Corporation • Can provide Webspeed Training • Provides multiple open source applications to the Progress community • Can provide application customization • Past work with Manufacturing, Court/Law Enforcement, Service industries.

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