QAD Explore 2012
QAD Reporting Framework
Jeffrey Steele
Software Engineer, QAD Inc.
QAD Reporting Framework
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QAD Reporting Framework
What Do You Get With Reporting Framework?
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QAD Reporting Framework
Gorgeous Reports
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QAD Reporting Framework
Availability
• Enterprise Edition
- 2009 and later
- 300 reports available with 2012 EE
• These are now also available at the Store
• store.qad.com – “report bundles”
• Standard Edition
- 2009 and later
• Earlier releases available via a services engagement
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QAD Reporting Framework
What’s New
• Additional bar codes (including 2D)
• Layouts defined dynamically
• Additional functions in designer
- Currency rounding
• Immediate service report server mode
• Support for launching a QAD report from a
character mode program
• Configurable output file name and location
• Report bursting and dynamic output routing
• API enhancements
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QAD Reporting Framework
QAD Reporting Framework Architecture
Report
Layout
Definition
PreRender
Engine
Applies template
Translates labels
Data
Source
Report
Render
Engine
Generic proxy
(Progress program)
Browses
Financials API
Report
Document
viewer
PDF
EXCEL
Printer
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Architecture
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Report Server Architecture
Document
Service
Windows
Task
Scheduler
Fires at time
intervals for
each batch
queue, daily,
weekly,
monthly
Report
Batch
Processor
Runs report in
batch queue.
For each report,
queries data
source and
renders report
Printer
Document
Service
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Basic Workflow for Creating a Report
Choose a report data
source
Create a report resource
Create a report definition
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What You’ll See
• Running a report
• Creation of a report
- Elements available (bar codes)
- VBscript examples
- Script object (number to word)
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Modification of a report
Use of templates
How to import / export a report
Reporting service
Some bursting examples
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Demonstration
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Questions & Answers
Jeffrey Steele
Software Engineer, QAD Inc.
jqs@qad.com
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Next Steps
• Get the Reporting Framework Source and
Samples
- http://store.qad.com/content/reportingframework-source-samples
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