Rave Reports Training - Felix J COLIBRI.

• Building Reports using Rave Reports
  
• Rave Reports Training's objectives
  
• What you will learn
  
• Intended audience of the Rave Reports Course
  
• Detailed content - Rave Reports Training
  
• Hands on exercises
  
• The teacher
  
• Conditions
  

Building Reports using Rave Reports

Rave Reports Training's objectives

What you will learn

• master the Rave Designer tool
  
• communicate between Delphi and the Designer
  
• build tabular or single page reports
  
• control the print order, use headers and footers, totals and bug totals, grouping, master detail relations
  
• directly print reports from Delphi, or generate .PDF, .RTF or HTML files
  

Intended audience of the Rave Reports Course

Detailed content - Rave Reports Training

• The First Report
  
  • the Delphi project, the Rave Designer, importing data from Delphi, building and previsualizing the report
    
• Architecture
  
  • overall organisation
    
  • communications between Delphi and the Rave Designer
    
  • independent data import by the Rave Designer
    
  • the project / reports / pages structure
    
• Rave Designer - The visual report design environment
  
  • the Inspector, the Palette, the Treeview, the design area
    
  • how to reorganize the printing order
    
  • global parameters
    
  • Rave Designer events - The Script language syntax
    
• The Palette Components
  
  • drawing lines, shapes, bar code
    
  • headers, Sections, calculation components, page number, date
    
  • managing fonts. The FontMaster
    
• DataBases
  
  • Delphi or Designer managed DataSet
    
  • the Region and its bands
    
  • the DataBand component
    
    • the BandStyle Editor
      
    • using Bands, setting the Controllerband
      
    • headers and footers
      
    • totals and sub-totals
      
  • CalcText and computing totals
    
  • calculated fields
    
  • master detail relations
    
    • using separate tDataSets :
      
      • MasterDataView, MasterKey, and DetailKey
        
      • using the Database Wizard
        
    • using joined Tables with GROUP BY clauses
      
  • Pre Initialized variables
    
  • propagating computations - CalcOp
    
• Structuring the Report and Modularization
  
  • the Mirror property
    
  • global pages
    
  • DataMirrorSection
    
• Multi Page Report
  
  • chaining pages: Page.GotoPage, Page.GotoMode
    
  • Report.PageList
    
  • single record page and DataCycle
    
• Bitmaps and MetaFiles
  
  • loading the data
    
  • the image properties - FileLink, DataView / DataField, MatchSide
    
• Memo and DataMemo
  
  • handling line breaks
    
  • building mailings
    
• The Delphi Components
  
  • tRvProject, tRvSystem, tRvDatasetConnection
    
  • using Delphi code to build a report - The Rave Renderer routines
    
  • driving the report using GetReportList / GetReportCategory
    
  • direct output, inclusion of Rave in the .EXE file, pre visualization
    
  • user reports
    
  • deploying a reporting applications
    
• Using Rave
  
  • generation of .PDF files, tRvRenderPdf
    
  • the .NDR file
    
  • printing reports using IntraWeb (VCL for the Web) - Web pages for downloading Rave generated .PDF files
    

Hands on exercises

• master details reports with totals and subtotals
  
• reports using joined tables
  
• tabular or single record pages
  
• reports directly generated from Delphi code
  

The teacher

Conditions

• length: this training lasts for 2 days
  
• location: the training courses are currently held in Paris, London, Munich. Courses can also be organized in other cities worldwide (United States, Australia, Brasil, Middle Eastern countries, Asia, Europe, ...)
  Custom trainings (subject, attendent level, dates) can also be arranged on customer premises
  
• language: courses are held in English. Courses can optionally be held in French
  
• dates: the updated calendar presents the dates of the next scheduled sessions.
  
• price: The price for 2 days is 1.120 Euros
  
• special discounts (starting at 30 %) for groups (2 persons or more) or frequent customers

• to register, please fill the Pre Registration Form

• for more information, please contact us at fcolibri@felix-colibri.com