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Report Generation with TX Text Control

Report generation is an important task within the vast majority of enterprises. Reports are often built with data from disparate data sources.

Dynamic Documents

Typical reports include sales reports, web server access statistics and product overview catalog pages that pull in data from a database, images from an image server and texts from a content management system. The document is created and formatted by TX Text Control.

Deploying TX Text Control to build documents dynamically has many benefits:

• The content is fully abstracted from the layout. This has the advantage that designers can work on the layout, independently from the providers of text and photographs.
• The actual document does not have to be saved - it can be created on-the-fly. This saves valuable hard disk space and ensures that the document is always up to date.
• Documents can be saved in the format that is most suited to the end-device upon which they will be viewed. As TX Text Control supports a very wide range of textual and image file formats, saving to HTML is just as easy as saving to PDF.

Technical Resources

The sections Formatting and Database in the Source Code Library offer an interesting insight into Report Generation with TX Text Control. They offer a number of articles, complete with source code that illustrate how to pull in data from databases and build and format word processing documents.

• Source Code Library  Database
• Source Code Library  Formatting

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