XAF DevExpress XtraReports, 20 Sep 2021

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From YouTube: Part 01 - Introduction to XtraReports

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Hello and welcome to this dev express getting a start with device press reporting by sari. This is a a course, a part of the elise of the course of software training, um in this case we're gonna we're gonna talk about the reports.

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uh It's not like uh normal course. We're gonna share information with you about the this tool and what we? What can we do with this?

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This presentation is gonna share with you, so we have put some notes if you see in the in the other cards, we have put note here, so we can just continue seeing this for all the time we're gonna be together.

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Okay, let's start uh the first things that I I want to share with. You is the planning our planning for this course. Okay, our planning is this. This is this is our table of content.

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We know we're gonna, introduce the sub reports. Extra reports like like say in the website, the resource that we that we are using in this training.

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We have a a project with some kind of things that we're gonna change in the course and you're gonna. Have it because it's gonna be in github. In sari account, okay, we're going to talk about the people designers, because we have designs in visual studio.

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We have this time along design for an user um web designer blaze or asp.net nbc anything okay, and then, when we understand about these things, we're gonna talk about how to add and bind data to the report how to connect to the database, how to connect to xml file or something like that and how to connect this information and create a new report, a create a master and detail layout.

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So if you, if we have a problem with category and something like that, we can we can do this report and these reports are classy because a lot of things of our life are master detail. Okay, then we're gonna use parameters to filter data in the report.

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Provide navigation to the report provide interactivity to the report, a grouping sorting calculation.

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This is the something that we all the time do and customize our parents of the report and then finally, finally, we're gonna talk a little bit about this script is code that you can put inside the records to change the behavior or to change uh information in the records who depends on the parameters that depends on what is printing and so on. Okay, and now we're gonna we're gonna talk about a little bit about extra reports, extra reports itself, full future reporting system based on banded reports.

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What this means. This means that we have our environment, that we have some bands. Bands that we can use for a show information depends of the needed. If I need some information repeat every page, so I use the band that are repeated in every page.

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Let me go to visual studio that I have here and let me show you something: okay, I'm gonna open this report. That is a clean just to show you what I'm talking about about these bands.

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The most of the reporting tools that I know use this approach, because bands are very understandable.

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Okay, so if you see we have here uh some bands, the this means that this is the grouping is a grouping, and this is a detail. So if I, if I say okay, if I want something that bring all the all the detail of my information, the logical things- I'm gonna put here in the detail, let me show you what kind of band we have here we have. We can insert this one. If you see report report is a band that only prints the first time when the records begin.

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So if I want something to print only the first time I just put in the report- header, okay, oh sorry, I forgot to to talk about my top marrying is the space between the beginning of the page to my report. So if you see this is the top band here, so I can put a little space or more depends of the of my needs. Okay, so I continue with the bands here, a report. I say to you page header, okay, when I talk about page anything I put in the page repeat every page.

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So if I want to put something that repeat every page, the logical part is to put in page header, if you see, if I don't have page header before, but now I insert it. If I want that something appears all the time here. I just have to add in this place. Okay, let's continue with the other button.

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Okay, we have here. The group header group, header, is a band that appears when I create a group in my report um any every time the group change. This could bring the new information about this group. So if I have this group header, I can use it for print the beginning of the group. People would know what they're gonna find inside this group. Okay, if you see here, I have this city, and this group header means that I'm putting these names and phone number by cd.

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So when the city change, I gonna have another people's inside dc. Okay, let's finally finalize with these uh bands, okay, I have details that you see. Details is sorry. This is the detail, the delisa band. That brings all records that I have in this data source.

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So if I need to bring uh information lines from my boys purchase all the or a report ids that I want to show to the people all people inside a city, I put the information that I want to the the information that I have that is running is in the detail: bank. Okay, so continue with the ban. I have here.

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The group footer group footer, is a ban that say to me when this group finish, if I want to put here how many, how many people are account of people that I have in this city or or maybe if you are a showing cells by salesman, you want to print at the end of the group, a summary of the the cells of this this guy. So you have these four.

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If you see I added here, so you have root header, you have details and then you have group footage. So when this begin, this are the details, and this is the final things of a after.

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So here I can put anything if I, if I take this and I copy and paste this here.

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Let me just copy and paste here, okay- uh and I want this not to be a first name. I want this to be uh just account.

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Let me put here that this is account in the group, but I don't want to assume. I use one account. Let me put here a formula we we're gonna, we're gonna, see this in in other. In other, a I'm sorry, I was thinking about another database option or something like that. But this income is a cam.

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It's a camp of this phone number or first name anything you have for number, because it's better because everybody have a different phone number, but the thing is notice. The thing is is to talk about the bands and then the next one I want to talk about with you is the report footer bank, this report, footer button, is just displayed in the last page when the records finish.

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So if I want to have something at my last page of the report, something like the claim or or anything that I want, this is gonna bring only one time like the page, the like the report, if you remember I talked about this report, report is reported just spring at the first time, and this performed your spring at the last time. So the bands are important because you need to know where you want. The information can bring, can be printed.

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If you need it all the time, if you need it one time, if you need it by page anything, you need so here. The last band I want to show to you is the page footer. This space footer is going to be print anytime, any page. Sorry, any page like a like this, that is page header repo. This is report header. This is page header.

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This page header is in every page, and this page footer is on every page down the base, and the last band that you have here is the bottom line. This bottom line is like the top margin is some space that you live here for a the reports. Can.

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Have this space between the top of the um the download of the page? So uh to finalize this, I just want to show you something else. Let me go to the toolbox here, just to to show you how this works. Really, let me show you how this works.

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Okay, but I have here some a.

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I have here some, let me see if I have some title here, that I can use it. No, let me see if I can have this label.

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Okay, this label, if you see I look for this name, I just I just want to to show you the truth about these advanced, so I want to put this label. I want to repeat: okay, the first thing that we're gonna do is put here in report header. So what we're gonna write here report here.

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And we're gonna say just one time: okay, and we got we're gonna see if it's true that I'm saying to you, okay, let me copy this and put it here in red for food. Okay, because here we're gonna, we're gonna, say: report footer, okay, just one time add final!

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Okay, I I forgot to say here add begin.

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Okay, then we're gonna say here copy and paste here and say: report. Sorry, basically pages and pages. Remember is.

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In every page, on top okay and then this one is page footer, I'm gonna put here and say page filter.

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Is footer and then every page on bottom?

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Okay? So here we have page header, header,.

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And then we have the group and the the group footer and the details. So let's, let's see what we can see here in this report and if I, if I saying you all the truth, this is important, because when we are making a report, we need to understand this band perfectly, because if you, if we put information in a band that is not correctly, then the report is going to be not like. We will okay report just one time at beginning and paste header is every page: okay go down and we have page footer.

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If you see report footer is not here, because report footage is gonna, be just one time at fine, okay, page header, again, if you see we don't have any more, this report headers and then we're gonna have page footer. ah Here, sorry, sorry, this is the. If you see this is the city, and this is the count that we made in this city. We have 36 because begin here in okay, we have 36 people in this kind of scene.

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So if you see we have this page header base footer and then we have here every page. We have this information about page. If we go to the last page, the slot page, if you see we have the page footer report, footer and page head report, footer is just gonna, be one time at the last play. So now we can understand about this band. This band are very important important for the creation of the report, so we need to know very well.

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We need to know anything and then we're gonna talk about what we can do with the bands, what we can just setting in each one, what we're gonna want to bring or we're gonna want to show to hide so in the next chart of this conversation this course conversation we're gonna, have anything about this, but.

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So in the next a moment, we're gonna talk about these designers and I'm gonna show you how to use it one by one thanks.