Reports continue to be made in CR and your CR system is completely unchanged.
Your CR reports will run in rptMart without any changes.
To unleash the full power of the rptMart system you will need to add one formula to your report. rptMart uses the information in the formula to setup the report's runtime user interface to your requirements.
rptMart does not change your .rpt files.
rptMart is a full program - not just an addon.
We all know the problems of getting inexperienced users to change groupings/alter record selections etc.
With them your prize report becomes a management headache.
rptMart puts both report design and running under your control - you make it AND control how its run!
All of these operations are simple list selections from one dialog.
Change report groupings Change Group and Detail sorting Change Record Selection criteria Change graphs Select hieracial criteria from lists/trees based on other files Hide/Show report areasNeed the following for use in your reports? Just put them in any formula!
The dates that the user selected The actual Record Selection code The user's name The name/date etc. of the .rpt file The name(s) of the group(s) the user selected TopN/BotN group sorting information, etc. etc. etc.One report can be setup to run in many different ways within rptMart. There's no need to make copies of the .rpt file just to do another grouping etc.
Thus when some 'small change' needs to be made only the one file will need to be altered.
Even relatively inexperienced users can produce flexible reports without a multitude of 'how-to' and 'why-did-that-happen' questions.
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