2. Symposium Day 2 Welcome back to day two of the DataFlex Web Framework Symposium Todays schedule: – Web Reporting – Starting a New Web Application – Web Framework Modal Objects – Styling Your Web Application – Extending the Framework with JavaScript

3. DataFlex Web Framework Symposium – Part 6 Web Reporting John Tuohy Development Team www.dataaccess.com

4. Web Reporting – In this section we are going to show various strategies for web reporting – Before we do that we need to lay the groundwork for what is required to make reporting work

5. The Groundwork We will take this step by step 1.Show how to connect your application with other parts of the web (other web-sites) 2.Show how to embed other parts of the web into your web application 3.Show how this can be used to include Business Intelligence (and so much more) into your web application 4.Show how to include web files into your application 5.Show how to include files that are not web accessible into your application 6.Show how to use this technique for a PDF file solution 7.Show how this can be used to generate dynamic reports

6. Lets do It…

7. Reporting Summary – Web Reporting can be many things? – We've talked about two styles – Traditional Printable Report – Currently PDF is the standard – Visual Report Writer is a good example of this – Run report and save it as a PDF in a secure non-web location – Access the report using the frameworks cWebResourceManager object Get DownloadURL of ghoWebResourceManager sPath to sUrl – A wizard can be used to write the code for you – Business Intelligence Report – If web-accessible, just link to it Send NavigateToPage sSomeDAIUrl btNewWindow – Dynamic AI is a good example of this – Can be tightly or loosely integrated into an application