The R:BASE 7.6 Report Designer has been upgraded with the following features to make your data output even more powerful than before:

·Sub Reports  
·Report Actions  
·Before Preview  
·After Preview  
·Before Generate  
·After Generate  
·On Before Design  
·On Close Designer  
·Before Generate and After Generate Custom EEPs for All Bands  
·Support to customize the CrossTab Grid Color in reports  
·Support for PROPERTY Command for all Report Controls  
·Dockable Toolbars  
·System Variable Object for System Calculated Values such as Page Set  
·DBCalc Object Eliminates the Need for Aggregate Variables  
·BarCode Objects Allow for Easy Display of Data in All Common Barcode Formats  
·Checkbox Objects Allow Dynamic Object Appearance  
·Regions to Permit Object Grouping  
·Crosstab Object to Build Powerful Crosstab Calculations  
·Page Style Band for Applying "Watermark" Objects on Your Report  
·Multi-Pass Report Engine for Page Set and Report Header Report Summaries Before They Happen  
·Static and Dynamic Height Report Band Options  
·Static Page Position Option for Report Bands  
·Columnar Report Option for Creating Columnar Reports that Calculate from Left to Right or Top to Bottom  
·Optional Data Tree Allows Drag and Drop Column Object Placement  
·Object Tree Gives a Quick Reference of Each Object Currently on the Report  
·Fully Functional Report Wizard for Stepping you through the Report Building Process  
·Addition of Diagonal Line Control as part of Standard Controls tool bar  
·New RBTI_REPORT_NAME RBTI System Variable  


Report Outputs:

·General  
·Selective exclusion of types of elements from appearing in the exported document  
·Background images/watermarks and background color for the exported document  
·Built-in support for E-mailing  
·Built-in Web Reporting facilities, get your report ready for serving over the Internet/  
·Intranet in just ONE line of code  
·New option of XHTML  
·Enhanced Report Outputs:  
·PDF:  
·40 bit and 128 bit Standard Encryption  
·Document Security (Owner Password)  
·User Password  
·User Privileges (Printing, Copying, Modifying)  
·Table of Contents and Hyperlinks  
·Bookmarks  
·Page Layout (Single Page, One Column, Two Columns Left,  
·Two Columns Right)  
·Page Mode (Outlines, Thumbs, Full Screen)  
·Viewer Preferences (Hide Toolbar, Hide Menubar, Hide Window UI,  
·Fit Window)  
·Presentation Mode  
·TrueType Font Embedding  
·Rich Text Encoding  
·Save Images as JPEG or Bitmap  
·Text and Image Compression  
·Save Document information (Subject, Author...)  
·Reuse Image objects to minimize file size  
·HTML:  
·Table of Contents and Hyperlinks  
·Document Preferences to disable Right-Click, Copying, and more  
·Single file and multiple file output  
·Save Images as JPEG, GIF, or Bitmap  
·Lines, Shading and Rectangles without image files  
·Floating page Navigator!  
·Graphical Navigator!  
·Reuse Image objects to minimize file size  
·XHTML:  
·Table of Contents and Hyperlinks  
·Document Preferences to disable Right-Click, Copying, and more  
·Single file and multiple file output  
·Save Images as JPEG, GIF, or Bitmap  
·Lines, Shading and Rectangles without image files  
·Floating page Navigator!  
·Graphical Navigator!  
·Reuse Image objects to minimize file size  
·RTF:  
·WYSIWYG output!  
·WYSIWYG editable RichText embedding  
·Save Images as JPEG or Bitmap  
·Save Document information (Subject, Author...)  
·Excel:  
·Images, Shapes, and Lines  
·Saving Images as Bitmap or Windows Metafile  
·Fonts with Font styles and Charset information  
·Report as Excel Workbook  
·Text formatting  
·Column and Line Spacing  
·RichText as WYSIWYG Image or plain Text  



For information on the Report Designer components and how to use them, please see the Report Designer.

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