Monthly Archives: December 2004

Inside the last post, I introduced how RDL deal with procedural flow and macro variables, the following is another sample that illuminates how RDL handle the report layout. <?xml version=”1.0″?> <report name=”TestReportItemlayout” startaction=”format_report” librarydir=”E:\reporttools\src\Aspose\ReportTools\ReportTools.RDLElement\bin\Debug”> <reportaction name=”format_report”> <log message=”format report!” level=”Debug” /> <reportparameter name=”body.top” value=”5″ /> <reportparameter name=”body.left” value=”5″ /> <reportparameter name=”row.height” value=”10″ /> <reportparameter name=”column.width” value=”50″ /> <reportparameter name=”header.height” value=”25″ /> <reportparameter name=”footer.height” value=”30″ /> <reportparameter name=”body.column.count” value=”0″ /> <reportitem left=”${body.left}” top=”${body.top}” label=”mainpage”> <reportitem height=”${header.height}” label=”header”> <reportitem left=”${int::parse(column.width) * rdl::get-zindex()}”… Continue Reading

The following is RDL script used by one of unit test cases. <?xml version=”1.0″?> <report name=”Simple” startaction=”prepare_query” librarydir=”E:\reporttools\src\Aspose\ReportTools\ReportTools.RDLElement\bin\Debug”> <variable name=”var_action_1″ value=”gather_data” /> <variable name=”var_action_2″ value=”format_report” /> <reportaction name=”prepare_query” nextaction=”check_sql” description=”generate the Sql script for reports”> <log message=”generate the SQL for report query!” level=”Debug” /> <!– Putting the RDL elements that are used for specifying or assembling the SQL script here –> <variable name=”action_result” value=”good” /> <if condition=”${action_result==’bad’}”> <variable name=”var_action_1″ value=”done” /> </if> </reportaction> <reportaction name=”check_sql” nextaction=”${var_action_1}”> <log message=”the SQL is… Continue Reading