Bespoke Querying Solutions
CrossCompass is extensible to allow users to execute
bespoke reports developed in-house specific to
the user's requirements and format/layout.
Using the example code provided, the reports can developed
in any COM compliant language e.g. Visual Basic
or Powerbuilder etc.
The example reports invoke CrossCompass back-office
components to extract data from all the catalogued data sources. The
extracted data can then be saved to Excel in many styles, PDF,
Microsoft report formats and even drilldown reports.
The developed report is given a name e.g. R01 and then
within the administration suite, the report is cross-referenced and
stored within the CrossCompass repository.
From here the administrator can decide which group of
users will utilise this report, adding an extra level of security on
the data extracted.
Also reports can be developed to be executed by the
batch process based on the server and output to various file
formats, for example HTML.
This scheduled submission of reports is useful as
the end-user can simply use the lightweight reporter to either run
reports or look for the output of the scheduled hourly/daily
reports run in batch i.e. the HTML output already providing the
end-user with the results they need.
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