When you run the Reports demo, you determine the format of the report output, and whether it is saved to
disk.
Output formats
The Output As section of the
Reports user interface allows you to select the output format for your report.
- Image
- An image file is created. By default, with the demo app, it is created in .jpg format.
- If preview is selected, the image displays in the default image viewer for the client.
- If save on disk is selected, the image is created in the GRW demo project directory.
- PDF
- A .pdf file will be created in the GRW demo project directory. The file can
be viewed with an Acrobat PDF reader.
- SVG
- An SVG file will be created in the GRW demo project directory.
- Browser
- An SVG file will be created for viewing and is displayed using HTML5, with the Genero Report Viewer for HTML5.
- Excel XLS Spreadsheet
- The report data is output in Excel format.
- RTF (MS-Word)
- The file is save in Rich Text Format (RTF), which provides a format for text and graphics
interchange that can be used with different output devices, operating environments, and operating
systems; more that just Microsoft Word.
- HTML
- The report document is output in HTML format
Output actions
You can either view the report immediately, or you can save
the report to disk.
- Preview
- Displays the report according to the selected output option. A copy is not saved to disk.
- Save On Disk
- Saves a copy of the report to disk. The report will be saved in the demo project directory. The name of the report will
be "report", with an extension of .pdf or .svg, or image000#.jpg where # is incremented sequentially
from 1 for each successive image that is saved to disk.