Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web

Stimulsoft reports has a web based report designer component that provides full report editing
capabilities inside a web browser. Thanks to this component called Designer.Web you can now
allow end users to edit reports to their requirements and save the report definition locally
or on the server. The best part of the Designer.Web is drag and drop deployment, all you need
to do is insert the designer component on an ASP.NET webform and write one line of code to start
allowing users to edit existing report or create their own reports. This feature would be extremely
useful for minor changes that would normally require developer intervention such as changing color,
font or alignment of text or adding a new field to the table or changing the location of the page
number.

The salient features of Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web are:

1) Platform independent (runs on Adobe Flash®)


2) Drag and drop implementation and deployment


3) Option of saving report definition on the web server or on user’s computer


4) Extremely useful for minor changes and updates by end users


5) Extremely useful for global development teams


The official documentation and training videos can be found at:


Video Tutorials:
http://www.stimulsoft.com/ReportsDesignerWebVideos.aspx.

User Manual:
http://www.stimulsoft.com/Documentation/SRDesignerWebUserManual.En.Pdf.zip.

Download latest version of Report Designer.Web from
http://www.stimulsoft.com/Downloads.aspx.

The data for this sample report will come from the
AdventureWork sample database provided by Microsoft.

In this tutorial I will show you how easy it is to use the web designer with the following activities




1) Add Reports Designer.Web to your web page


2) Show Designer.Web on Edit button click


3) Create a simple table Report in Designer.Web


4) Add a new connection to the report


5) Add a Data Source to the report


6) Add a Table to the report


7) Preview and Save Report






1) Add Reports Designer.Web to your web page


• Drag and Drop StiWebDesinger1 from the toolbox to your webpage

2) Show Designer.Web on Edit button click


• Drag and Drop a button Standard ASP.NET button onto the page and type the text as “Edit Report”


• Add an event handler for the edit button and add the following line to show the Designer.Web


    protected void btnEdit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
StiWebDesigner1.Design(new Stimulsoft.Report.StiReport());
}


3) Create a simple table Report in Designer.Web


• Start your website in Debug mode by pressing the debug button on the Visual Studio toolbar or by pressing the F5 key


• Click on the Edit Report button


• Reports designer now opens inside Internet Explorer

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4) Add a new connection to the report


• Select the Dictionary Tab on the right side of the reports designer


• Click on the New Item Icon and select a New Connection


• Select the SQL Connection and click OK


• Type the connection string for the AdventureWorks database


• Click test to confirm that the connection string is correct

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5) Add a Data Source to the report


• Click on the New Item icon the Dictionary Tab and select New Data Source


• Select Data from the SQL Connection and Click Ok


• Type the name of the query in the Name field as Sales


• Type the SQL query in the Query Text Field


• Click on the Retrieve Columns to confirm that you have all the required columns


• Click Ok to see the Sales Datasource in the Dictionary Pane


• The following query has been used in the report


SELECT [SalesOrderID]


,[RevisionNumber]


,[OrderDate]


,[DueDate]


,[ShipDate]


,[Status]


,[OnlineOrderFlag]


,[SalesOrderNumber]


,[PurchaseOrderNumber]


,[AccountNumber]


,[CustomerID]


,[ContactID]


,[SalesPersonID]


,st.Name


,[BillToAddressID]


,[ShipToAddressID]


,[ShipMethodID]


,[CreditCardID]


,[CreditCardApprovalCode]


,[CurrencyRateID]


,[SubTotal]


,[TaxAmt]


,[Freight]


,[TotalDue]


,[Comment]


FROM [AdventureWorks].[Sales].[SalesOrderHeader] soh


Inner join [AdventureWorks].[Sales].[SalesTerritory] st on soh.TerritoryID = st.TerritoryID

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6) Add a Table to the report


• Click on the Menu icon and Select New


• Select New Report with Wizard


• Select Standard Report and Click OK


• Expand the Connection and Select Sales as the Datasource


• Click Next to select columns


• Select all the columns required to be displayed


• Continue through all the steps with default settings or change them according to your requirements


• Click to see the final report design

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7) Preview and Save Report


• Please remember to disable the popup blocker for the localhost


• Click on the preview tab and select Preview as HTML


• The report preview will open in a popup window


• Switch to the report designer window and click on the menu icon


• Now select “Save As”


• Click Save again if you have the trial version


• Select any location on the local drive to store the report

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Notes:


1) Save As is used to download the report definition on local user’s drive


2) Save is used to save the report on the server side




The author of the article is Chirag Nirmal and his linkedin profile is
http://www.linkedin.com/in/chiragn

Stimulsoft Reports.Web v2009.1 reporting tool. It became much easier to create reports in Web.

Stimulsoft announces Stimulsoft Reports.Web 2009.1 a major official release of the first and unique report writer for Web, which is getting more and more popular.

Many new capabilities have been introduced in the version 2009.1. These innovations make it possible to increase the productivity of reports creation and to save time. Here are some crucial changes in the Web reports designer:
- Styles are supported;
- Conditions are supported;
- Charts are supported,
- Data adapters are also supported;
- Wizards for building reports have been added. Among them are: Standard Report Wizard, Master-Detail Wizard, Label Wizard.
- The User Interface of the software is localized in 23 languages. There are English, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, most of languages of Eastern Europe countries etc.
- The report engine underwent very thorough changes:
- To already exist 20 export formats (such as PDF, Word, XPS, Excel, TXT etc) new exports to DIV and SYLK are added.
- In the earlier versions, the unique tool that is used to import reports, created on base Crystal Reports reporting tool to Stimulsoft Reports, was delivered as a single archive. But now this Import.CrystalReports.exe tool is included into the report engine. Some fundamental improvements have been done to optimize the import of reports and make it more complete and precise.

More information about Stimulsoft Reports.Web can be found at official site of Stimulsoft http://www.stimulsoft.com

Stimulsoft Reports.Web overview
Stimulsoft Reports.Web is the report generator for Web. It gives an unlimited opportunity to create reports, starting with creating report templates and ending with showing reports in a Web browser. Reports can be exported to more than 20 export formats: PDF, XPS, Excel, Word, HTML, RTF, XML and others. And it takes minimum efforts and time. Stimulsoft Reports.Web works in any browser that support Flash Player 9.

The site page http://www.stimulsoft.com/FeaturesByProducts.aspx describes the distinguishing features of the product.

Detailed information, as well as product description, licensing procedure, documentation, Flash tutorials, Demo version of the product can be found at http://www.stimulsoft.com.

Pricing and Conditions
The scheme of Licensing depends on the number of developers who directly take part in development. The product is available immediately for $599.95 (US) for a single user license without source code and $999.95 with source code through the Stimulsoft store (www.stimulsoft.com) and authorized resellers worldwide. Registered users are entitled to a one year subscription program that includes free upgrades to minor and major versions and priority technical support for 12 months from the date of purchase. The subscription program can be renewed and will cost only 33% of the current price of the product.

Please, explore www.stimulsoft.com to learn more about the product.

Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web version 2009.1 released.

Stimulsoft Company, a leading provider in the Reporting Tool category announces the next major release of Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web 2009.1 the first reports designer for Web.

The new version of the product was developed to speed up and simplify work with the Web reports designer. Starting with the version 2009.1, styles and conditions are supported. Instead of manual formatting of each component, it is possible to create a new style in a report and customize all necessary parameters. Also it allows changing the design of components, depending on specified conditions. Charts, Data adapters, sub-reports are supported in Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web. A lot of new properties and functions are included in this version.
The complete list of changes available in the product is published at http://www.stimulsoft.com/AllNews.aspx.
Full description of the software can be found at the official site of the company www.stimulsoft.com.

Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web overview
Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web is the report designer for Web.
Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web allows users to edit reports completely in a window of a Web browser as easy and quickly as possible. And all this can be done without installing .Net Framework, ActiveX components etc on the client’s machine. The only requirement is Flash Player.
Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web has modern Ribbon interface. Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web is equipped with multiple functions such as visual component builder, drag’n’drop, functions for work with the Clipboard, tabular editing, zooming, saving reports, export reports to PDF, HTML and many other useful functions.
To integrate the report designer into the ASP.NET application you need to put one non-visual ASP. NET component on a page. And then, only one string of a code runs the report designer in a browser.

The site page http://www.stimulsoft.com/FeaturesByProducts.aspx describes the distinguishing features of the product.

Pricing and availability
Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web is available for the price starting with $299.95 without source code and $499.95 with source code. Registered users are entitled to a one year Subscription Program that includes free upgrades to minor and major versions and priority technical support for 12 months from the date of purchase. The Subscription Program can be renewed and will cost only 33% of the current price of the product. Additional information about Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web, documentation, Flash tutorials, as well as its free evaluation copy is available from www.stimulsoft.com/.

Stimulsoft Reports.Net version 2009.1 released. Expanding potential.

Stimulsoft Company announces the release of Stimulsoft Reports.Net v2009.1 reporting tool – fully functional solution for data processing.

The version 2009.1 provides unquestionable advantages for developers. The potential is expanded by means of the following changes:
- Two new exports are included in the new version. It is export to the DIV and SYLK formats.
- Also the import from RTF is added. Now there is no need waste time to recreate the structure of document built using Microsoft Word. It is enough to save this document to the RTF format and open it in the reports designer of Stimulsoft Reports.Net.
- Five new UI localizations have been added: Croatian, Georgian, Hungarian, Polish, and Serbian.
- Starting with the version 2009.1 it is possible to sort data by expression.
- A new level of Interactivity is developed. Now it is possible to collapse, resort data in the window of Viewer. Also it became possible to create Drill-Down reports.
- It will never be difficult for a user to import reports from Crystal Reports to Stimulsoft Reports. In previous versions the import from Crystal Reports was delivered as a single archive. In version 2009.1 the Import.CrystalReports.exe tool is globally reprocessed and included into the report engine.
- Now it is possible to use Html Tags in text expressions.
In addition, Stimulsoft Reports.Net v2009.1 includes substantial changes which make the reporting tool more feature rich and more powerful.

Stimulsoft Reports.Net overview
Stimulsoft Reports.Net is the report writer for the.Net Framework. It represents unique abilities for report creation. The Designer has the full set of tools for developers. It helps them to create reports of any complexity as easy and fast as possible. It is possible to view created reports both in Windows and Web. And the most remarkable thing is that there is no need for a user to make any efforts to do it.
Stimulsoft Reports.Net is packed with great many samples of reports, projects, and flash tutorials. It is enough for a user to select a sample of a report, make some changes into the report structure, assign a data base, and print a report.

Stimulsoft Reports.Net 2009.1 supports .NET 2, .NET 3, and .NET 3.5.
Stimulsoft Reports.Net 2009.1 supports Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista.
The site page http://www.stimulsoft.com/FeaturesByProducts.aspx describes the distinguishing features of the product.

Licensing
Obtaining a license for Stimulsoft Reports.Net grants a one year subscription program that allows developers to get free product updates, upgrades and fixes, major and minor releases as well as timely technical support. Stimulsoft Reports.Net does not require royalties at runtime and design time.

Additional information on Stimulsoft Reports.Net, documentation, Flash tutorials, as well as its free evaluation copy is available at http://www.stimulsoft.com .

Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web. The first report designer for Web is released.

Stimulsoft Company, a leading provider of software for Business Intelligence in the Reporting Tool category announces the first official release of Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web 2008.2 the first reports designer for Web.

Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web allows users to edit reports completely in a window of a Web browser as easy and quickly as possible. And all this can be done without installing .Net Framework, ActiveX components etc on the client’s machine. The only requirement is Flash Player.

Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web has modern Ribbon interface. Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web is equipped with multiple functions such as visual component builder, drag’n’drop, functions for work with the Clipboard, tabular editing, zooming, saving reports, export reports to PDF, HTML and many other useful functions.
To integrate the report designer into the ASP.Net application you need to put one non-visual ASP.Net component on a page. And then, only one string of a code runs the report designer in a browser.


Report Generator Overview
Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web is a report designer for Web. It gives users a boundless opportunity to edit reports under minimum requirements – from a server side any ASP.Net hosting is required and from a client’s side Web browser and Flash Player plug-in is required.

Please, explore www.stimulsoft.com to learn more about the product.

Pricing & Availability
Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web is available for the price starting with $299.95 without source code and $499.95 with source code. Registered users are entitled to a one year Subscription Program that includes free upgrades to minor and major versions and priority technical support for 12 months from the date of purchase. The Subscription Program can be renewed and will cost only 33% of the current price of the product. Additional information on Stimulsoft Reports Designer.Web, documentation, Flash tutorials, as well as its free evaluation copy is available from www.stimulsoft.com/.

Stimulsoft Reports.Web report generator. Start is declared!

Stimulsoft announces Stimulsoft Reports.Web 2008.2 a major official release of the first and unique report writer for Web.

Stimulsoft Reports.Web is the first fully functional report generator which allows users to create, edit, save, and export reports directly in Web. It's remarkable that there is no need to install .Net Framework, ActiveX components or some other plug-ins on the client’s machine. The only requirement is a Web browser and Flash Player.

Ribbon interface, visual component builder, undo-redo functions, functions for work with the Clipboard, tabular editing, zooming, saving reports, export reports to PDF, HTML, and great many other useful features are available for customers.
To integrate the report designer into the ASP.Net application you need to put one non-visual ASP.Net component on a page. And then, only one string of a code runs the report designer in a browser.


Report Generator Overview
Stimulsoft Reports.Web is the report generator for Web. It allows users boundless opportunities in report building, starting with creation of report templates and finishing with showing them in a browser. Also Stimulsoft Reports.Web can save reports into more than 20 export formats such as PDF, XPS, Excel, Word, HTML, RTF, XML etc. And this takes less efforts and less time. Stimulsoft Reports.Web works in any browser which supports Flash Player 9.

Please, explore www.stimulsoft.com to learn more about the product.

Pricing & Availability
The scheme of Licensing depends on the number of developers who directly take part in development. The product is available immediately for $599.95 (US) for a single user license without source code and $999.95 with source code through the Stimulsoft store (www.stimulsoft.com) and authorized resellers worldwide. Registered users are entitled to a one year subscription program that includes free upgrades to minor and major versions and priority technical support for 12 months from the date of purchase. The subscription program can be renewed and will cost only 33% of the current price of the product. Additional information on Stimulsoft Reports.Net, documentation, Flash tutorials, as well as its free evaluation copy is available from www.stimulsoft.com/.

Stimulsoft Reports.Net report writer. Revolutionary changes.

Stimulsoft announces the release of a new version of Stimulsoft Reports.Net report writer a bronze medal winner of the “2008 Editor’s Best Awards” in the Business Intelligence and Reporting category by SQL Server Magazine.

What are remarkable changes in a new version? In Stimulsoft Reports.Net version 2008.2 the report engine is completely reprocessed. This improvement optimized work of the product in report creation, increased the speed of report rendering, allowed adding new properties. All this extends report writer capability.
The product interface is completely redesigned. Ribbon UI is now available in Stimulsoft Reports.Net. The new interface helps users to use product more effectively and more productive.
To already available several tens of bar-codes, the following ones such as ISBN-10, ISBN-13, Pharmacode, FIM, Jan-8, Jan-13 etc were added. Among other features new properties, aggregate functions and many other useful improvements were included in the version 2008.2. Also some changes in Excel 2007, Excel XML, RTF, HTML exports were done.
Also some errors of previous versions were fixed.
You can find the description of other essential changes of the version at the official site of Stimulsoft www.stimulsoft.com.

Report Generator Overview
Stimulsoft Reports.Net provides developers with a fast and highly productive way to generate reports that scale to meet user demands. The product has a report designer and a complete set of layout and design controls to create presentation-quality reports. The designer can be used both in design time and in runtime. If it’s used in runtime, no royalties are required. The designer lets developers spend less time on coding, and more time on software development. Reports can be generated from various data sources and can be used in Windows Forms and in ASP.NET.
Stimulsoft Reports.Net 2008.2 supports .Net 1.1, .Net 2, .Net 3, and .Net 3.5.

Please, explore www.stimulsoft.com to learn more about the product.