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FAQ - How do I create reports which can be used in Websydian applications.

Product Websydian Web Developer
Version All
Category Development
Question How do I create reports which can be used in Websydian applications.
Answer

Creating reports for Web can be a problem and requires some programming.

One approach is to create a documenttemplate which is optimized for printing, this is mainly a solution when the print does not create more than one page.

Another way is to have the Plex report facility create a RTF file and then call an external program to perform a conversion from RTF to the PDF format which can be viewed with an Acrobat Viewer.

The last solution is only viable for Windows and Java, and you can find several companies on the internet developing RTF to PDF converters.

In theory you should also be able to create reports based on XML documents created by the XMLPageGenerator or TransacXML. This solution requires knowledge into XML, XSLT, and FOP.