Background
Generally speaking, the report wizard of web reporting tool can help users to make a report step by step. Due to its strong regularity, common report wizard can only make simple reports, such as grid report, group report and cross report. However, reports in real business are more complex.
Difficulties
Combined report is one kind of complex [...]
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Posted : February 22, 2009
Background
Web Report always needs printing, while printing always needs page break.
A kind of common page break is automatic page break by paper size and page margins. Before printing or displaying, it will calculate that how many rows and columns can be displayed in each piece of paper according to page size and page margins. However, [...]
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Posted : February 22, 2009
Background
For printing web report, users often need to print it by clicking the print button. However, sometimes users may want to print report immediately when loading the report on browser.
Solution
As a real Excel-like web reporting tool, RAQ Report provides a direct print function for users. You only need to use the tag <object></object> in the [...]
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Posted : February 20, 2009
When developing web report, many developers use VMware to simulate different operating systems on a same server. Then, they can realize cross-platform deployment and debug of web report. According to real application of web report, I will discuss three network setting ways of VMware with all of you.
Bridge way
This is the simplest way as it [...]
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Posted : February 18, 2009
Problem
Sometimes, users may change the data source of input report template through RAQ Report API dynamically. However, after releasing the input report template with tag, an error message “Can’t find data source!” usually appears when users are inputting data in the web page.
Analysis
Through API of RAQ Report, users can only change the name of the [...]
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Posted : February 16, 2009
Problem
For the users of web report tool, when developing web report, they need to configure dataset at first. When data source is complicated, they often want do some special handling to dataset. With the dataset factory listener class of RAQ Report, they can realize this idea.
However, users may meet a few problems in the use [...]
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Posted : February 15, 2009
Background
Sometimes, we will meet a web report with large height and width like the one below. If its report heads have not been fixed, when we drag the scroll bar, they will move with the data area. This will be very inconvenient for users to read the content.
Solution
Fortunately, RAQ Report can easily fix only [...]
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Posted : February 14, 2009
Background
Sometimes, we want to print a web report on a preformatted paper. Such as invoice, bill, credential, etc. With traditional reporting tools, it will be very difficult.
Solution
But now, it will be very easy. With the background picture mode of RAQ Report, we can solve the problem of preformatted paper printing very easily.
Example
Following the example below, [...]
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Posted : February 13, 2009
Background
With the continual development of information technology, the web report application of enterprise-level reporting tool is also improved gradually. At first, it was stand-alone data operation, and on-line file processing later. Then, OA software appeared before the brilliant shining of standard financial software and QgESS software. After that, the concepts of business process reengineering appeared, [...]
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Posted : February 12, 2009
Background
Designing web reports with traditional web reporting tools of control drag and drop style, we are often troubled by the alignment of gridlines. Especially when the web report has a multi-level complex report header, it has a huge workload and usually can not achieve a perfect effect.
With its unique spreadsheet design style, Excel avoids the [...]
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Posted : February 11, 2009