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  1. Interactive Report in Windows with Visual Report Writer

    Now we are on the edge of delivering the final Visual Report Writer 3.0 I want to learn you how you can make use of the new interactive previewer that is available in the product. In this blog we create a report that shows all orders that used the current selected INVT item. Clicking on an order should bring up the order view with the clicked order found and displayed. Using the INVT table means that you can use the order entry example workspace.

    The Report
    The report needs to ...
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  2. Report Data Sources

    This blog contains information on choosing and changing the data source in the Data Access report writer.

    Data Source?
    During the creation of a new report a data source needs to be selected. A data source makes it possible for the report writer to access the rows of data in tables. Currently 3 data source categories are available; DataFlex, ODBC and RDS.

    DataFlex
    For the DataFlex database the data source is either the list of tables (usually named filelist.cfg) ...

    Updated 25-Feb-2013 at 10:24 AM by Vincent Oorsprong (Two functions added)

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