Report Generator List & Label 12 - product information - combit GmbH

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Working Visually
List of Variables
Formula Assistant
“Reliable and simple layout of
forms.”
Michael Bladeck
DaimlerChrysler Services Leasing
The Designer
Core for the End Users
Integrate the List & Label Designer and
enhance your application with powerful
functions – all in one go and without
much expenditure of time. Put yourself
ahead of your competitors and give the
end users the flexibility they want. Integrate
the Designer seamlessly into your
application by choosing between several
dialog styles. You can choose from Win95
to Office 2000, XP and 2003 styles. With
the Professional Edition you may integrate
the Designer into most of your desktop
applications without additional royalty
fees! Please see the combit license agreement
at www.combit.net for restrictions.
Intuitive and Powerful
Even less experienced users will be familiar
with the "drag & drop" handling. You
will be impressed with the ease in which
reports are laid out. A page is dealt with
as a single entity and not as a sum of
different bands. This is the natural way of
generating reports! Rulers, ruler guides,
groupings, multiple copies and other
known add-ons facilitate and speed up
the design of reports.
Tool Windows
You can dock all tool windows in arbitrary
places, or let them freely float as extra
windows.
• Report Structure. Here you can
define the sequence of the desired
tables, charts and cross tabs just by
clicking and arranging.
• Property List. Quick overview and
fast input of all the selected report
objects’ properties. The property list
concisely displays all settings for each
object. Apart from simple values you
can also enter formulas, e.g. printing
negative red is a piece of cake.
Dynamic layouts are created almost
as easily as static ones.
• List of Variables. Once all databa-
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se tables are passed, the Designer
automatically shows all fields in a
hierarchic tree. This allows you, for
example, to quickly fill RTF and table
objects using drag & drop.
Object List. Allows you to name,
identify and lock objects, assign
printing sequences, and generate
object links.
Layers. These are shown including
their print conditions. Object groups
are separated by colors and fade
in and out within layout and print,
making it easy to keep track.
Preview. Helps you control the
layout with sample data that you can
determine yourself.
Formula Assistant
The formula assistant supports you when
using formulas for mercantile forms, appearance
conditions for lines within lists
or similar purposes. This assistant offers
short help texts, parameter selection
with drag & drop for variables, syntax
highlighting, autocomplete, automatic
conversion of datatypes, tooltips, syntax
check in the result area and the option to
provide additional custom help texts for
each data field.
User-Defined Functions
Enhance the Designer with your own
functions by using the .NET, VCL or ActiveX
component. The end user won’t be
able to distinguish them from regular List
& Label functions.
Format Editor
The format required for an expression
can be set easily by choosing a pattern
resembling what the end product should
look like. Your users are already familiar
with this system, which is employed by
many office applications.