Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Reporting:
Report Builder Deployment

Running Report Engine from an application

This section describes how to run reports from Progress 4GL applications. It contains the following examples:

Running reports with a simple filter override (rbfilt3.p).
Prompting for user input for the printer information (rbprint2.p).
Prompting for user input for the filter information (rbfilt4.p).
Running multiple reports in a batch (rbbatch.p).
Running multiple reports and prompting for user input (rbprompt.p).
Overriding database connection information (rbdbconn.p).

All the samples illustrate how to run Report Engine with a local multi-user database. The samples use the rbsample.prl report library and the OpenEdge Sports database. The rbsample.prl report library is located in %DLC%\SRC\aderb.

You can run reports from a 4GL application by running the _printrb.p procedure. This procedure runs the report using the parameters you specify. You specify the desired parameters for each report in the RUN statement when you run Report Engine.

To run a report with Report Engine:

Create the report definition in Report Builder.
Use the following command in the Progress 4GL application:

RUN aderb/_printrb.p <parameters>

Note: Parameters are described in Chapter 3, " Report Engine Parameters."

Remember that the startup parameters in PROSTARTUP and RBSTARTUP files apply to the PRINTRB and PRNTRB2 interfaces even though there is no explicit command line available.