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Report Sharp Shooter - Advance Topic....

Edhy Rijo — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:14:55 GMT

Hi Trent,

First, I know this could be a long topic and as such, I would ask you to take your time responding and also I know this is not directly related to SF, but you have done great things with RSS and I hope you can share some tricks with us.

I got to a point in Report Sharp Shooter (RSS) where I find myself doing many repetitive things per report and probably I am missing something in how to properly take advantage of RSS to handle many reports.

Up to now I have been doing one or two reports per form and I do the following:
- Add a ReportManager control, BBS for my reports and add my reports (using InlineReports). So far I have a Master Report which I use with all reports, so at least I don't have to do that all the time.
- For each report I have to create the following classes:
ReportDataSource.vb
ReportBBS.vb
ReportBO.vb
Of course using the SF Custom BBS wizard, these steps are easy, and I follow the same class patter used in StrataFlix.

Now I want to create a Report Center form to manage and allow End User to run reports, but don't know how would I handle the following:
- Sync my report manager table with data to run the reports, in other words if I have several reports records, when the user select a report, how to tell the ReportManager which report to run? can this be added on the fly or should I create all reports definition in the ReportManager?

- How would I optimize the process so I can re-use and run the same report from several forms?

- RSS saves the report definition in an rst file, should this file be included in the project?

I created my own preview form which works really great with a lot of functionality I added. For now I do not allow End User to make modifications to the report, but I did manage to add the feature for me to design a report while previewing, this way with the data from the BSS it is easier to design the report layout while previewing it.

Any other tip you can offer?

Thanks.

RE: Report Sharp Shooter - Advance Topic....

Ivan George Borges — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:14:55 GMT

Hi Victor.

I don't think it did.

But let us know of your questions and we will help if possible.

RE: Report Sharp Shooter - Advance Topic....

Victor Sousa — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:04:04 GMT

Trent, did the video discussed here ever come about?

RE: Report Sharp Shooter - Advance Topic....

Russell Scott Brown — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:53:22 GMT

I would be interested in this as well even though I don't use Report SharpShooter it would probably be somewhat generic for all report writers.

RE: Report Sharp Shooter - Advance Topic....

Edhy Rijo — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:00:58 GMT

Thanks a lot Trent, that will be just great!

RE: Report Sharp Shooter - Advance Topic....

Trent L. Taylor — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:32:38 GMT

You ain't kiddin' :w00t:

This could turn into a super long post. Instead of trying to explain all of this on this thread, I think I will try and allocate some time (please be patient) to create a video for this. It would be a lot easier.

RE: Report Sharp Shooter - Advance Topic....

Edhy Rijo — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:18:38 GMT

Also, how to handle the data entry for the parameters to get the data for the report? For now I have been using bowse dialogs but that also means having to create a BD for almost each report.