General          

DevExpress includes the editor program for the so named extra reports as well, so that the customer can alter  the included standard reports or create new ones on his own.  

In the standard case a large range of reports is included that only need to be installed.  

Standard reports  

 

Install          

Install the standard reports via Install->“Install Standard Reports“.  

 

 

 

Description: Short description of the menu  

Element: Reports that are linked to an object, are directly called up via these objects. Which object type the  report is linked to, is shown in the element column.  

Menu: General reports that are not linked to objects are called up through a menu. Which menu, is described  in the column menu.  

Visible: Is shown as a choice in the print menu of the according area.  

Standard: This report is used as a default for printing

 

List of all Standard reports  

Customer specific reports  

Standard reports can be altered or new ones can be created with the editor program of DevExpress  

Note: If a standard report is altered this must be saved under a different name if it is not to be overwritten in  the next update. To generate a copy the original should not be saved under a different name. A Copy should  

be made using the icon        after selecting the report that is to be duplicated. The new report should then be  renamed.  

 

 

Edit          

Via the marked report is opened in the designer for editing.  

 

 

The report template not only includes the description of the form and content of the output, but also the  
record set or data source. In the record set the information is contained (taken from the database) that is  
needed to fill the report, independent of the exact object. This means for example in the record set of the  
report Mux: Detail all the information is included that is needed to fill the report for every mux component in  

the database. However the information to fill the report Person: Detail is not contained in the Mux: Detail  
record set.  

It is easy to acces the information of the record sets via the window field list. The information can easily be  
pulled in to the main window via drag and drop and therby adding the information to the report.  

 

 

Hereby it is important that it is very easy for the user to change the format of the report as well as add static  content. Altering the record set however so that additional dynamic information is available is much more  
complicated and requires the help of Dynamic Design Support.  

Documentation  

How to change the format of the report in a specific way or generate a new format is best learned on the  
dexecpress website.  

http://documentation.devexpress.com/#XtraReports/CustomDocument4256

SQL Reports (Object)  

 

A new report is created via “new”. The name is then entered and the choice is made between Objects  and General.  

 

 

New reports that our object linked can be linked to the following 50 classes.  

 

 

 

For an object linked report it can be selected if the object is Single or Multiple. By single the report is printed  via the icon in the detail window (In the example below the new report is called “component single”).  

 

 

By Multiple the report is started via the print icon in the inventor window (In the example below the new  report is called component multiple).  

 

SQL-Report (General)  

 

A new report is created via “new”. The name is then entered and the choice is made between Objects  and General.  

 

By a general report one can determine via which menu the report is called upon.  

The following menus can be selected.  

 

 

Import Export  

 

DevExpress reports can be simply exported via the “SaveAs” button in the designer.  

 

 

Reports can be imported via the “open” command in the Designer.