ActiveReports help request.

[danielm]

I'm going thru the activereports tutorial and I'm hoping that some nice person who is up on the AR process could please help me out with a good example of files that work together to make the setup sheet? As far as I can tell, I would need the .XML file, the .RPX file, the image files that I think are .BMP, and the MCX-6 file. Also, any advice that will help me get my head around this AR thing is very appreciated!!

 

 

Many thanks in advance!

DM

[uncle_dolan]

Hi Daniel,

 

How did you go with your activereports? I have been playing around with them for a little while and have created a working setup sheet close to 12 months ago. Im always tweaking it to make it better. If you are still looking for help i can see if I can assist you. Below is an image of my current setup sheet.

 

Brendan

[dfedwards]

I have been using AR Setup sheets since X5; I have created a format that works and recently adapted it to meet the format at my new employer. The problem is, no one wants to use it because you cannot save as a .DOC for editing and adding notes and things after the setup sheet is posted out of Mastercam (At my previous employer we had Acrobat X and made our edits in that). I have saved as all available filetypes and my setup sheet loses it formatting in anything other than .PDF. Do you have any suggestions?

[uncle_dolan]

For ease of editing .rtf is your best bet, i understand you will lose some of your formatting, so you may need to make some modifications to your AR so that when you save as a .rtf the formatting comes across consistently. Shouldn't take too much work, just a bit of fiddling with layout