Hi, I have had success generating reports using both HTML markup and DDE to MS Access. Both worked quite well although designing the reports in access was a lot quicker once I had established how to use DDE. I sent a primary key from mapbasic to access and stored this in a global variable. I then opened up the reports and used the onload event to bring up the correct info based upon the global variable. This worked great guns and I haven't had a problem with it since I wrote the code.
Hope this gives you a few ideas Cheers Matthew :) -----Original Message----- From: Gary Schwartz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 12:23 AM To: MapInfo-L Subject: SUM: MI-L Customizing Reports Last week I sent the inquiry below to the MI-L list regarding customizing Crystal Reports through MapBasic. From the response I got (2 messages saying they'd be interested in any anwers I got), my assumption is this hasn't been done on a wide-spread basis but is clearly a weakness in the MapBasic API. I'd be interested, then, if anyone out there has had success using some other reporting mechanism from MapBasic besides Crystal (i.e., Excel via DDE, etc.,). Thanks, Gary. Original Message ----------------- Has anyone had success with generating customized reports on the fly from MapBasic using the Crystal Reports that comes with MI Pro? The MapBasic commands that support Crystal seem to be extremely limitting (unless I'm missing something) but it does look like you could call the Crystal Reports dlls directly given the API information. I just was wondering if anyone has had success (or not had success as the case may be) with this approach before going down that path. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gary Schwartz Director of Software Development Mapping Analytics 2 Graham Road West Ithaca, NY 14850 (716) 271-6490 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________________________________ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body. ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager of QR. This message has been swept by MIMESweeper for the presence of computer viruses. No warranty is given that this message upon its receipt is virus free and no liability is accepted by the sender in this respect. This email is a message only; does not constitute advice and should not be relied upon as such. ********************************************************************** _______________________________________________________________________ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body.
