Programming Languages: Object Pascal. Tools & Technologies: Borland Delphi 6.0 Enterprise; MS SQL Server 2000/MSDE, ADO; COM; Web Services; CGI, ISAPI.

Short project description

Report Builder is an application for building and generation reports. This application is developed for work with big amounts of reports. Using the Security Manager, developed by DevCom, Report Builder allows to set rights for using reports.

Report Builder can be used as a separate independent system for reports building and generating on basis of users’ databases. If needed, Report Builder can be integrated with other systems using a set of COM objects. The ESP project is an example of such integration. Report Builder allows dividing reports by types and allows placing reports to different Report Sets, which allows building reports list as a hierarchical structure.

A system of supporting report parameters allows to create parameter editors, which ensure a convenient way to input data forming reports. Besides, Report Builder contains a number of standard parameter editors, which are quite enough to create most reports.

The generated reports can be saved in different formats: PDF, RTF, XLS, RAF (internal Report Builder format).

Report Builder has three-tiered architecture. The report server is realized as Web Service. Report Manager allows creating, adjusting and deleting reports. Report Manager also uses a set of basic COM objects, which realize report designer, standard parameter editors and ensure reports generation.