How Can End Users Enhance Existing Reports of a WinForm Application?

How Can End Users Enhance Existing Reports of a WinForm Application?

Posted by: markus.luttenberger on 25 July 2024, 5:22 am EST

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  markus.luttenberger

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  Posted 25 July 2024, 5:22 am EST

  Use case:
  
  Our customer wants to have to the ability to enhance certain reports that we provide with a WinForm application. This means, the developers supply and ship the base report, but certain end users will enhance the base reports for their own department’s need.

  I have not found a description in the documentation of how this use case can be implemented. Can the end users store the changed reports in a way that also other users can profit from their changes? It should be also configurable when such an enhanced report shall be used, instead of using the base report. This means that the reports must be centrally accessible and manageable, independent of our shipped application. How can we do this?

  What would be the appropriate tool for the end user to extend the reports? Does end users require a license when they edit a report?

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  katyayny.raghuvanshi

  

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  Posted 26 July 2024, 7:16 am EST

  Hi Markus,

  ActiveReports provides ability to create and edit reports by the users. To enable the changes of the edited reports to reflect to other end users, you need to save and fetch the reports from a server. Please refer to the attached sample where we have created a server where the reports are saved and fetched from. Run the Server application and then run the designer application. When you’ll click the Open button, the report will be fetched from the server. If you’d edit the report and press the Save button, the report will be saved in the Department1 folder of the server and if anybody tries to fetch the report, it will first check if there is any edited report in the Department1 or it will fetch the original report. You may edit and modify the same based upon your requirements.

  >> Does end users require a license when they edit a report?

  No, end users don’t require a license to edit the reports after you have published the End-User Designer application with a license.

  We hope this helps!

  Regards,
  
  
  
  Katyayny

  AR18EUDCWithServer.zip