The labels and the variables are the same object: LABELS. You can insert any object, but we will pay more attention here to the labels and variables. When the names of the fields are set, click on the "Ok" button to insert the new subsection on the report.Īdding labels and variables to a subsection: etc.Īlthough the report can work without any problem this way, it may be convenient to change the names of the fields.Īfter that type the new name of the field and click "set". However, this value could be lower (never greater) than the height.īy default, the fields coming from the RPX file will be named as. Subsection ends at: ussually this value is the same as the height of the subsection. Height: sets the height of the subsection. Default value (and recommended for most cases): "Current Y value". Starts in position (Y): in this field is possible to set the vertical position to start the subsection each time it is printed. Name: this name cannot be changed and is assigned from the identifier that is read from the RPX file. Note that is possible to see the records present in the RPX file.įor section: this field indicates if the subsection belongs to, , or. To do so, just double click on the DETAILS declaration. Just edit the field names on the DETAILS subsection. Additionally, it contains the DETAILS subsection depending on DATA section. The template contains a HEADER, FOOTER and DATA sections. When the RPX file is done, we will generate a new template with the Rpv Visual Editor doing the following:Īfter this, a new empty template will be created according the variables they are included in the RPX file. Even when it is required the file is required to run the report, it is not needed that exists at design time. Add as many records as you want following always the same structure. If you do it with the Notepad, pay attention that the extension is not TXT because notepad adds it automatically. Preparing a template from for this exampleįirst thing we have to do is to paste this data to a text file and name it as "C:\TEMP\CUSTOMERSDATA.RPX".
The structure, can be represented like this: [details: records, with this structure must be recognized by the template to show the report. This means that each line can have a different delimiter in case that is needed. The last character must also be the delimiter. The delimiter for the line is defined by the first char of each line. Please note that the first and the last character for each line is the pipe. The collection, then would be the following: This will be the first field.įor example, we will say that this structure is named as "details". Each record has the same structure: name, last name and phone.įor an RPX file, it will also required to add an identifier to each line. Here we see three delimited records by pipe character. Supposing that we need to generate a customers report and we have three fields: name, last name and phone. The RPX file is a data collection with an certain structure and delimited by a char. The main goal is that your process only generates variable data to combine with the template to obtain the report.
The "variable" portions are those that will vary and they are the data that the report will show. The "fixed" portions are some texts, images lines and all the objects related to the layout. What happens then? It happens that if we see a report we will see portions that a "fixed" and portions that are "variable". It is obvious that a report also includes a header, columns, lines images, etc. The application Rpv Visual Editor is designed to work with these kind of files.Īn Rpx file is a ascii file (a plain text file) that contains delimited data. The Rpx format is the most important of all the formats available for Rpv.
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