I want to create a custom report in zkteco attendance software. If I open a report (eg: Daily Attendance Report) using the Report Designer option of the software, I can see there are lot of variables, functions and data elements but I don't know how to work with them. I searched a lot in the internet but could not find documentation of these variables and functions and how to use them in designing a report.
Does anyone know any tutorial link of descriptions of those variables or functions?
Thanks
You can customize the already available reports by clicking the Report Designer.
Note: Possible changes (Change Font/Positioning/Apply some format functions/Add few more columns of query result)
Double click any field in the Designer.
Apply some basic format functions - Like Date format change below:
Snapshot from my customized software
Couple of already available variables can be added like: Line#, ReportGenerationTime etc.
Save the designer (File is saved in Installation_Direcrtory/attdaily.rpt)
Important: There is no way to change the query which is populating the Data (I am trying to find the compatible crystal reports version to modify the .rpt files - i-e to change the query for Data)
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I am generating reports in Word using R officer package. I want my reports to contain table of contents, list of figures and list of tables, but when I add them, there is a warning "This document contains fields that may refer to other files. Do you want to update the fields in this document?". So in every report I have to click 'Yes' and then save changes in the report so the window does no show up again.
My question is if it's possible to do these three steps: opening the ready report, clicking 'Yes' when the window shows up and saving the changes in some sort of code?
I've been searching through the Internet, but haven't found anything that would help me.
Microsoft website provides some articles that seem related to my problem, such as this one: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/vsto/how-to-programmatically-open-existing-documents?view=vs-2019, but I don't really understand if they answer my question.
I will appreciate any suggestion on the software I should use to do this and/or sample codes.
For our SaaS (LAMP) product reporting we are currently using JasperReports. We find it too cumbersome to develop reports with and the output in Word unworkable. Moreover, a couple of customers request to be able to develop simple reports themselves (to be used as mail merge). We would therefore like to develop templates right in Word. The idea is to have an application/webservice that would receive the Word template and JSON data from the LAMP application and return the filled-in report. The report has to support:
Loops inside content (repeating a document section several times while filling in array data)
Filling in tables (populating rows from array)
Filling in chart data in pre-created charts (from array)
This is the functionality we are using in JasperReports right now. Are there existing solutions to this? I've found quite a lot that can substitute simple variables, but no info about the the above three points. Will it be a lot of effort to write one from scratch? I would prefer a Windows OpenXML-based solution rather than a Linux PHPOffice-based one as I presume the former would handle the text split by spell-checker and language tags (though I'm not sure).
Windward and Docmosis are both commercial products that support the features you've listed and they are intended to be added to your application to provide reporting capabilities. Neither is are not OpenXML based. They can use Word documents as templates and perform the data merge into different output formats. Please note I work for Docmosis.
Aspose Words is another tool and it can populate a template but most of the power is through code rather than controls/directives in the template. Given your OpenXML thoughts, perhaps this is more what you are looking for.
More tools are recommended here in StackExchange.
I hope that helps.
ReportBox is a Web based reporting solution that can be used by any software application to generate documents and reports in Microsoft Word/ Excel/ PowerPoint/ HTML(DocX/Xlsx/PPTx/HTML) using OpenXML.
The process starts by building a Microsoft Word/ Excel/ PowerPoint/ HTML document as a template and uploading to ReportBox portal. Your application either sends data to ReportBox or ReportBox can pull data from your application database, which is then merged with the template to produce the finished report. Please note that I work for GreenThoughts.
I have a Crystal Report used in an ASP.NET web application that I've just come into a project I'm assessing/turning around.
The reports are called from a web page or web service and are sent an ADO.NET dataset - using ReportDocument.SetDataSource for some tables with a relation etc - all defined largely in code - initially loaded from the database, but it looks like some data is even altered after load in the datasets. (don't ask)
I have several XSDs (and a whole bunch of source repository history) but none seem to match the report, and trial and error to find the right one is taking way too long.
I have added some data in the code, but I cannot get the report to allow me to add fields until I update the report data source, but I don't have the original XSD to point it to. I have to get the report updated to solve immediate needs and then I can address the strategic direction of refactoring this design/architecture.
Is there a way to extract the XSD from the Crystal Report?
In the end I used ds.WriteXmlSchema() to write the schema to a file and then pointed the report at the file to fix it up.
I am looking for a reporting platform for our asp.net application, which will allow the report to be exported in excel (for tabular data), or PDF/Word (for document reports like Invoice prints).
Are there any standard options available?
I tried Rdlc, but it does not seem to help in the second case (at least I dint see a way, if you can please enlighten me :) ).
Currently we are using Interop for excel export (I know its not recommended for asp.net, we are planning to switch soon), use rtf templates for word reports (which also makes them somewhat customizable) and we dont have pdf export (planning to build it). But it seems like a waste of effort if standard controls are already available!
Cheaper the better! Free rocks!!
What's the issue with Rdlc? You can create any kind of format into it. For invoice prints etc you can use list data region. Its used for free flow kind of stuff. Its like ASP.NET repeater. In your case, you will have only one row of data.
Edit: even Crystal reports has equivalent functionality. As said, you will have only one row of data for invoices etc.
In both Crystal & RDLC, you can even supply multiple rows of data to your free flow report and generate multiple invoices in one go. Can be very helpful feature for users.
I have an web application which serves SQL reporting services reports via the reportviewer control. Because of the complexity of some of the reports I use rdlc reports attached to business objects.
Now I would like to expand the system and allow some form of user-defined reports. Ideally I would like the users to connect their reports to the same business objects I use to create the rdlc reports.
Is there a control that allows users
to create/edit their own rdlc files?
Can rdl files be attached to
business objects?
Any hints/tips for writing my own
control to edit rdlc files? (I would
think this is a lot of work
and would only attempt if there is
no suitable answer to 1 or 2).
All my development has been done in VS 2005 with SQL 2005 but I could upgrade if new features in 2008 help with the solution.
This isn't much of an answer, but at my company I have put together our own Report Builder.
We have about 30 or so Reporting Service reports that our users can access through the web or desktop application. What we wanted to do was give our users the ability to take any given section within those reports and create their own.
If there is a report we have built for them but they don't want to see the graph, they can create the same report with out it. If they want to combine parts from 4 different reports to make one summary report they can drag those sections around on our custom builder and save it.
The report builder I had to put together pulls down all the different sub-reports they have chosen and reads through the XML adding them to a Report Builder Template XML file I have created. I then have to aggregate all the parameters so as to not ask for them more than once (parameter names do have to be unique across all reports if you don't want them aggregated). This new report XML is deployed to the server and the users can access them when ever they want.
I've also given them the ability to create their own cover pages, headers, and footers by dragging text boxes, images, global variables (date ran, created, ran by, page number, etc... anywhere on a blank canvas. I then convert all the items they've drug around and resized on this canvas in to another report XML file and deploy it as a sub-report that they can add to their custom reports.
Yes, this has taken quite a bit of work, but our users love it. We're in the process now of allowing them to create a report with special groupings so the report can be ran at different levels.
So it is possible, but there is no easy answer. =) I'd be glad to give advice to anyone who asks, but a direct copy of the code is a violation of my contract, but I'll do what I can outside of that.
I think SQL Reporting Services isn't meant for this kind of customization. You can hide and show controls and subreports, but stuff like interactive grouping etc isn't there.
You might look into a third-party reporting framework like Telerik's.