Server Enhancements

Drill-down subreports

The Server, ClientReport and WebTier have all been ehanced to support drill-down subreports. Internally ReportBuilder's drill-down subreport architecture has been re-designed to further decouple the Viewer from the Report. This was necessary to support a request/response architecture required for a server environment. The Report Server's report publishing service has been extended and the ClientReport, WebTier, and XHTML have likewise been enhanced for the new drill down request.

  Server -- (drill down request) -- ClientReport
  Server -- (drill down request) -- WebTier --- (drill down request) -- Web Browser

Email

Emailing via the ClientReport has been included in prior RB versions and works in the same manner as emailing from a standard Report. 

RB 12 introduces the ability to email reports from the WebTier. When enabled, an email button is included in the web viewer's toolbar. Pressing the button displays a web email form.

Submitting the web form sends a request to the WebTier, which internally uses RB's email functionality to send an email with a PDF attachement.

Configuring the WebTier for email requires two steps:

  1.     Configure the WebTier.EmailSettings

          a.  Set Enabled to True.   
          b.  Configure the Host, UserName and Password to connect to your email server
          c.  Optionally specify a default Subject, Body, etc.

  2.     Include an SMTP plug-in.

The RB email architecture supports SMTP plug-ins. The default MAPI plug-in cannot be used in a Web application. As an alternative use the Indy components included with Delphi or the freeware Synapse components. To specify the desired plug-in add one of the following to the uses clause of your WebTier project.