What's New in ARPEGGIO Version 2

Embedded Charting

In Version 2, you can embed charts directly into your reports with built-in charting support. Support includes pie, bar, line, and area charts of all types and many customizable options including 3-D support, orientation and grid lines specification, label and legend specification, color schema selection, and font support.

Application Scheduler

You can use the Application Scheduler for automatic or periodic scheduling of report printing or exporting, Data Organizer batch processing, and non-report event execution. Automatically update your reports periodically, run complex reports at any time of the day, or schedule any report or non-report event.

.RRW to .RSW File Conversion Wizard

This conversion wizard is useful for those users bridging the gap between R&R Xbase Report Writer and ARPEGGIO . The wizard walks you through converting .RRW reports to .RSW reports, including selecting your reports, creating a data source, mapping table and column names when necessary, and warning of any potential inconsistencies between the formats and how to resolve them.

HTML Export

You can now export your reports as HTML documents. Export capabilities have been extended with the addition of Intranet and Internet report publishing, export your reports as HTML documents.

ActiveX Report Viewer Control

The ActiveX Report Viewer Control serves as an additional tool for Intranet and Internet report publishing. For complex reports that make use of report formatting features that are not supported in HTML, use the ActiveX Report Viewer Control. Export your report to the Viewer Control format, drop the control into your web page, and have your reports rendered exactly how they appear in Preview.

ReportScript in Viewer

Report Script support has been extended to send report definitions to the Report

Designer from custom wizards. Application developers who like to put their own front-end on report design will be pleased to find that Report Scripts can not be sent to the Report Viewer.

Visual FoxPro DBC Support

Support has been added for the Database Container file format in Visual FoxPro. With this support, the Report Writer is no longer restricted to "free table" mode, and the Visual FoxPro users can base reports on DBCs in which they’ve grouped related tables and defined descriptive table and field names for them.

Sample code has been updated for VB5.0 and PB4.0

Auto Data Source Creation

If you send a report or query to another user who does not have the necessary data source defined, Report Designer will prompt for creation of that data source on the target system.

Right-Click Print/Fax

You can now print or fax your report without opening it simply by right-clicking on the report name and selecting the appropriate item from the menu.

Miscellaneous Enhancements

A Printer Properties button is now available in the File Print dialog in the Designer and in the Viewer to enable you to change printer settings.

For year 2000 support, the Report Designer will no longer accept ambiguous two-digit years, but will automatically expand such dates to assume the current century.

Read Retry support has been added to accommodate situations in which there is an error reading a DBF. The Designer now reports "Error reading file xxx" in a message box with Retry and Cancel buttons when running a report. If you select Retry, Designer attempts the read again. The Viewer retries the read every 5 seconds for 5 minutes until it succeeds or until retries are exhausted.

The character used to indicate hard-spaces is now configurable via a new SPACEDOT setting in the SRT file. This support is most useful for users with character sets that make user of character 183, the default space dot character in reports.