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Working with eDocEngine Additionals (Export Interfaces)

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eDocEngine provides Additionals (Export Interfaces) for exporting various document formats from the third party reporting components. eDocEngine currently supports

AceReporter, QuickReport, Rave Reports, FastReport, ReportBuilder, RichView, HTMLView, TMS, GmSuite and DevExpress.

 

Reports generated by the third party components are passed to eDocEngine using the Additionals (Export Interfaces). These reports are then passed to eDocEngine components to generate various document formats.

 

How to use eDocEngine Additionals?

 

Prerequisite:

 

1.Install the third party component for Delphi/C++Builder.
2.Install 'Export interface' for the third party component installed to the IDE

 

 

To create a document using eDocEngine Additionals,

 

1.In the IDE, from the component palette, select 'eDocEngine Additional' (Export Interface) tab and drop the interface on the form.

 

2.Also from the component palette, select 'eDocEngine' tab and drop the component (for the respective document format) on the form.

 

3.Connect the Interface with the eDocEngine component. To connect the interface with the component, highlight the interface on the form to show up all the properties for the interface in the object browser. For the 'Engine' property, select the engine component in the drop-down list for which the report needs to be exported.

 

Note: To export reports to various formats, we need to drop an interface and a component and then connect them. eDocEngine does not allow to connect one export interface to two components. For example to export the reports of ReportBuilder to PDF and RTF formats, we need to drop two Gnostice ReportBuilder Export Interfaces and connect them individually to PDF and RTF engines.

 

4.Run this application to export the report.

 

Tutorials for all the Export Interfaces are provided in 'Tutorials - eDocEngine Additionals (Export Interfaces)'.