Can Active Reports 2 be configured to work with a flat file without ado or rdo?

Can Active Reports 2 be configured to work with a flat file without ado or rdo?

Posted by: galois on 18 March 2021, 4:33 pm EST

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  galois

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  Posted 18 March 2021, 4:33 pm EST

  Hi,

  Can the standard ide or a custom one, be configured to work directly with an Excel or CSV or other text file, without requiring an rdo or ado object?

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  Posted 19 March 2021, 4:05 am EST

  Hello,

  New versions of AR are application to bind the report directly with CSV files. I suggest you to upgrade to the latest version so the achieve your requirement.

  Thanks,
  
  Mohit

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  Posted 19 March 2021, 8:57 am EST

  Thanks Mohit,

  But I recently purchased Active Reports 2. I’ll purchase the .net version soon, but I’m not doing that immediately after the first report writer.

  So I think the answer is no, the legacy AR 2 depends solely on database components, and can’t be coaxed into stepping through spreadsheets, csv, or tab-delimited files.

  I do have a fairly recent copy of ReportEase. The default version works with csv files, with a little coding. I’ll use that, for the time being.

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  Posted 22 March 2021, 12:36 am EST

  Hello,

  In AR2, you can’t directly bind the CSV with report.

  I recently purchased Active Reports 2.
  
  From whom you have purchased AR2 now. It is a legacy product now. It is out of maintenance mode now. Hence, we do not provide support for the same or no bug fixing will be done in the same. I would recommend you use the latest version of ActiveReports i.e ActiveReports 15. Please refer to the following link for more information:
  
  https://www.grapecity.com/activereports.

  Thanks,
  
  Mohit