Developing Customized Reports

Course Length: 2 Days

Who Should Attend?
Experienced Actuate Developers

Prerequisites:
Attendance in the e.Report Designer Professional class, and hands-on Actuate report development experience

Course Description:
This advanced course focuses on the report design process and environment. This includes discussions of the Actuate framework, the fundamentals of Actuate Basic, and the types and behaviors of Actuate Foundation Class methods. Students learn to develop reports with custom SQL queries, and how to customize controls, subreports, data streams, and pages. Additionally, students learn to create dynamic content through the use of customized Actuate Basic code. The optimization of Actuate reports is also discussed in order to ensure maximum efficiency, reusability, and ease of maintenance of report designs.

Each student receives a comprehensive course manual, which functions both as a workbook during class, and as a detailed reference guide once the class is completed.

Topics:
· Overriding methods
· Running Multiple Queries
· Developing reports with custom SQL queries
· Understanding custom data streams
· Using filters to customize data streams
· Actuate Foundation Class Library
· How the Report Factory generates:
      - Sections
      - Frames
      - Controls
· Where to customize report objects
      - Customizing controls
      - Customizing sub reports
      - Customizing pages
· How to design and develop report objects considering requirements for:
      - Input data sources
      - Report’s structure and flow
      - Runtime option requirements
      - Special controls/calculations
      - Active viewing
· How to test and debug report object designs
· How to optimize Actuate reports


Cost: $1,000

Prices are per student and include all training materials. Please call 501-952-8110 for discounts if sending more than 1 student to the same class.

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