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Introduction

Application Designer offers flexible, easy-to-use controls and server side Java APIs to support reporting. Reporting functions include:

In addition, Application Designer provides a Java API to create a rich set of statistical charts. Functions in this area include:

While in principle Application Designer delivers independent APIs for the various issues (e.g. the charting API is independent from the reporting output API), all can be combined in order to write nice looking reports:

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Reporting is not an island on its own but can be integrated easily in any Application Designer page, i.e. the output is done inside a normal Application Designer control that you place into an Application Designer page.

The objective of Application Designer reporting is:

In short: we do not provide a full-fledged reporting tool for SQL type of reporting - we offer something small and smart that is easy to integrate and to adapt into your application.

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