Reports without hard coding them.

[HunterEC]

Is there a way of building a report with groups, fonts, headers, footers, etc. without hard coding it ? For example having a DBF file with all the fields, headers, footers, group information, etc. so you can read this file and build whatever report is present. This will be a time saver since you can update your reports without recompiling the application.

Any examples will be appreciated.

[Antonio Linares]

Gustavo,

You can use a report designer. There are some of them.

When you buy FWH (FiveWin for Harbour) we provide you a free EasyReport personal edition as a gift.

[HunterEC]

Antonio: Thank you for the tip. But, can I assign the data values to the different report objects to create a report instead of the REPORT ... COLUMN ... command. I prefer to stick with FiveWin instead of using another tool like the report designer. My purpose is to build the reports from data definitions on DBFs not that my customers design them.

For example:

oReport:Title := "Title"
oColumn[1]:header := "Name"
oColumn[1]:data := {|| (Field)}
.
.
.
etc.

Thank you very much for your help.

[Antonio Linares]

Gustavo,

EasyReport is developed with FiveWin and you link it to your EXE as a library.

Please review fw\samples\report folder for a complete tutorial for FiveWin reports