I currently use a third-party component to handle reporting and design work in Delphi 7. Will reporting be a built-in feature of EWB or will writing code or using a third-party product be necessary?

-- Frederick

Frederick,

<< I currently use a third-party component to handle reporting and design
work in Delphi 7. Will reporting be a built-in feature of EWB or will
writing code or using a third-party product be necessary? >>

You're going to need to generate the reports on the back-end and then have
the front-end EWB application retrieve them in PDF, etc. format.  The EWB
application can then display them in an HTML container, which will be
available in the next EWB build (probably the last one before the final
release).

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

<< .....which will be available in the next EWB build (probably the last one before the final
release). >>

T minus 12 days and counting.

Tim,

>>
You're going to need to generate the reports on the back-end and then have
the front-end EWB application retrieve them in PDF, etc. format.  The EWB
application can then display them in an HTML container, which will be
available in the next EWB build (probably the last one before the final
release).
<<

Will you be providing samples on how to generate reports that can be accessed by EWB in the final release?

Is it correct to say that with EWB, I will not need to use third party products since everything not available within EWB can be coded using PHP?

-- Frederick

Frederick,

<< Will you be providing samples on how to generate reports that can be
accessed by EWB in the final release? >>

I will be providing examples on how to do PDF display, yes, so that will
serve as a good example of how to get a report from the back-end generation
out to the front-end web application.

<< Is it correct to say that with EWB, I will not need to use third party
products since everything not available within EWB can be coded using PHP?
>>

Well, you may need third party products regardless of the back-end language
that you choose.  It really depends upon your needs and how much the base
language/product can accomplish them.  PHP has quite an ecosystem around it,
so you can probably find an extension/code that will do just about anything
you need.

In general, though, anything that is too much processing for the EWB
front-end can/should be done on the back-end.

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Tim,

Thanks for the information. I am looking forward to the final release for EWB.

-- Frederick