Customising Scrivo
Scrivo's versatile plug-in architecture makes it the primary choice for delivery of bespoke reporting to your customers. Here are just some of the ways in which Scrivo can be adapted to your own particular requirements:
Data retrieval
In an ideal world all corporate data sources are easily accessible to business reporting and adaptible to its needs. We at Firbeck know that this ideal world often doesn't exist. Scrivo's ReportDataSet plug-in architecture helps you to work with allyour data, no matter what format you use.We've worked with existing customers to enable access to diverse data sources, including:
- Relation databases (Oracle, DB2, Sql Server, Access)
- Custom XML formats
- Proprietary 'recordset' formats
- Hierarchical BLOB/CLOB data formats
- .NET Datasets
- Excel workbooks
- Delimited files
If your data source has a well-defined format or an API, Scrivo can work with it.
Rendering
Not all data types are equal in the reporting world. Most reporting software can show text, data items and images. Scrivo enables you to go further, using the Painter plug-in architecture to enable rendering and embedding of your specialised data types into your generated reports.Your Scrivo reports can incorporate and embed (for example) images, documents, chemical formulae, chemical structures and reactions into your Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint output files. Fine control of the rendering of objects gives your business reports exactly the content you need.
Scripting
Scripted report items allow you easy programmatic control inside a report template, with no need for any compilation or assembly deployment - it's all in the report template. Each script has full access to the data, and can be as simple as a bespoke format, or as complex as a full rendering.Working in conjunction with our Painter plug-in architecture these report item scripts can be written in the following languages:
- C#
- Visual Basic
- Iron Python
The flexibility provided by scripted items helps you to achieve reporting aims beyond Scrivo's powerful core interface. You can provide custom rendering cababilities, group and accumulate data values, build in further esoteric data types - the list is as long as your imagination.