Report Builder On Demand Business Intelligence

Printing and Reporting Enhancements
Report Builder 2005.1 provides powerful enhancements. Print simple to complex data reports, including the ability to print and view binary long data such as pictures.

• View and print images retrieved from the database
• Rich database support
• Easy Reuse: Copy and paste objects between reports
• Flexibility in Formatting and Query Definition:
  • Assign a format to all selected objects of a block
  • Conditional line display on page headers and footers
  • Auto-scrolling columns for faster query definition
  • Case-sensitive table names in queries
  • Column sequence changeable using drag & drop
• Control: View column data type during query definition

View and Print Images Stored in Long Binary Columns

Printing product catalogues, including product images, is a snap using Report Builder 2005.1. You can also print a list of employees with their pictures and Report Builder 2005.1 makes it easier to retrieve stored images.

Flexibility in Query Definition
Auto-Scroll is an easy, fast tool for selecting columns and removes the need to scroll with a mouse. Simply type the initial characters of a column name and automatically scroll to right position. The column data type is displayed in the table and the column selection dialog. This makes it easy to understand what columns contain what data, and speeds up the query definition process.

Many database servers support lower case table definitions. With Report Builder 2005.1 table names can be entered in lower case.

Report Formula Housekeeping
Reports can multiply and become complex over time as new data is required, requiring new formulas. The new Report Builder 2005.1 supports report housekeeping. Report housekeeping is an easy way to detect formulas that are no longer in use. To delete the unused formulas you simply select the formulas that are not in use in the report dialog and then delete.