TFORMer Runtime: Reporting Components (COM/.NET/DLL)

A few lines of script code manage form printing and report generation directly from within your application.

TFORMer Runtime can be embedded as a report writer component into scripts, office applications and conventional software projects by means of COM Technology:

• Microsoft^® Office (VBA): Microsoft^® Word, Access, Excel^® or InfoPath^®
• Microsoft^® Internet Explorer: HTML pages with VBScript or JavaScript
• Web Server Applications: ASP, ASP.NET, PHP
• Visual Studio 6.0: Visual C++ 6.0, Visual Basic 6.0
• VBScript, Perl, Phyton (PhytonWin), ColdFusion
• and much more...

The graphic shows the principal data flow of TFORMer Designer and TFORMer Runtime:

• Create form layouts with TFORMer Designer
• Integrate the COM report writer component in your application or script
• Provide print data as file, database query or program code
• Print the desired form directly or export it as PDF/HTML/Graphic/PostScript file

The following sample shows you how to apply TFORMer Runtime in VB Script (Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting). This example is available with the installation of TFORMer:

Create the required instances for TFORMer Runtime (tformer) and for a print job (printJob).

Set tformer = CreateObject("TFormer5Lib.TFormer")
Set printJob = tformer.CreateJob ' Create an output job

Adjust the form layout using repository (..\..\Demo Repository\Demos.tfr), project (TFORMer_Runtime_Examples) and form name (BarcodeLables) according to your needs:

printJob.RepositoryName = "..\..\Demo Repository\Demos.tfr"
printJob.ProjectName = "TFORMer_Runtime_Examples"
printJob.FormName = "BarcodeLabels"

The data fields in the form are filled with the values taken from the data source. (NewDataSourceRecordSet). This is done directly from the program code (AddNewRecord und SetDataField). You can also import data field values by means of external database or files:

Set dataSource = printJob.NewDataSourceRecordSet
dataSource.ClearRecords

dataSource.AddNewRecord
dataSource.SetDataField "ArticleName", "Mac Adaptor"
dataSource.SetDataField "ArticleNo", "12001234"
dataSource.SetDataField "ArticlePrice", "39,00"

Form printing and exporting. Choose from an output device or an export format (here the pdf file output.pdf):

printJob.PrinterName = "PDF:" & objEnv("TMP") & "\output.pdf" 
printJob.PrintForm