Transcript Why Use Denkh

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!
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Generate reports without the need of coding,
compiling, and releasing program modules…
But still powerful enough to integrate with
programmer’s works.
What is it?
A report generator!
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Users can search for a report
The report requests input parameters from the
user
The report is presented to the user
What is it?
A report manager!
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Provides a repository of multiple reports.
Create, Modify, and Delete reports.
Run Through….
Choose a report to run…
Run Through…
Run the report
Run Through…
The report!
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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
Integrate into existing systems
Use the tables available in existing
Progress and non-Progress applications:
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Internally Developed
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….
Ease of support
Uses a web browser as the client
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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.
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.
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
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.
More information
Contact Scott Auge at Amduus Information
Works, Inc. At [email protected]
Contact James Arnold at Analyst’s
Express, Inc. At 888-889-9091
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.