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The Sunset Reports User Manual has been updated to the latest version and includes 229 pages of detail information for reference on all the aspects of the product. This includes: Installation, Starting the Program, Setup, Data Sources, Report Design, Report Definitions, Report Distribution, a Tutorial, and Technical Support.
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If you have used the Report Wizard and get this message after selecting your data source….
then what you need to do is create a file named “Connections.xml” if it doesn’t exist in the folder listed in the report. You can create a blank text document and rename the file. Then you need to change the permissions on the file as shown in the following figure.
You should then be able to run the Report Wizard without any issues.
Sunset Reports provides so many features and one of them is being able to write your own programs in VB.net, Jscript .net, or C#. Yes that means that you do not need Microsoft Visual Studio to learn programming. You can write a .net program as a script for a report and have an empty report if you only want to run the code. To execute the code you simply run the empty report. Previewing the report will execute the code as well or you can schedule the report to run in the queue. So you can write program and then schedule it’s execution. Or with the opening arguments capability in Sunset Reports, you can launch a report (your code) directly from a shortcut on your desktop. What a great way to learn to program with minimal cost. And don’t forget you can validate your code while you design it to find errors in syntax. And in addition to that your code can be part of creating a document/report, or be the logic behind an interactive report/form in Window View.
The Report Preview screen displays your report and you can choose to print, export, email the report along with several other features. But did you know that the report in the preview window can be interactive. Scripts in the report can respond to mouse actions including clicks, double clicks, mouse down, mouse move, and mouse up events. These scripts can be assigned to any control on the report. This opens up many possibilities including creating drill down reports and drill though reports. In fact, you can have a user click on a control in print preview and open another report, open a file, go to a website, open a form, message box, input box, and more. You can even create a menu and have the menu launch reports and more.
More to come on this exciting topic….
This version focuses on the look and feel aspects of the product.
Here is a YouTube video showing all 42 skins in just over a minute – Watch Now
Another great update to Sunset Reports is here. This version introduces two new major features:
Here are the 8 modes: (Note: Modes 2 thru 8 all require Arg1 being a specified report storage file)
Here is the new menu….
As we continue to see how people use Sunset Reports, we are amazed to find out that the product can do so much. In surveying our current user base, we have found the functionality of the software going beyond what we originally intended. Here is a small list of how the software has been used (The first few were obvious, but included here to make the list as complete as possible.)
If you are using the product for something not on this list, drop us a line, we would love to hear from you.
Collect, Analyze, Format, and Deliver Information
