The designer portion itself is the window in the upper-left corner. You can drag and drop fields
from the Fields dialog box, and you can modify the field??™s properties on the report via the Field
Format dialog box. The Record Sorting dialog box, of course, allows you to determine how the
records used to generate the report are sorted. The Table Linker dialog box allows you to visually
design joins between tables, and the Report Formula Language dialog box allows you to
determine what language you??™d like to write your report formulas in. The Report Description
dialog box allows you to see and edit metadata about the report, and the SQL Query window
shows you the actual SQL query DataVision will use to generate your report.
You can go ahead and run the report to test it by clicking the Report menu, and then Run
Report. The resultant display allows you to export the report in various formats.
Integrating DataVision into your own application requires just a few simple lines of code,
which we??™ll see when we get to that part of RePortal. You can also execute reports via a command
line if you wish, and you can have the output go directly to a specified file format, or
appear in the Swing viewer, as when you run the report from the designer.
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