Tag: ReportLite

Use ReportLite External Library to Auto-insert Reports to Word Templates In many business scenarios the report is required to be embedded to the Word document. Here is a report: The report displays graduate employment information in a certain year. The data in the table and for plotting the chart in the report comes from the database. It is simple and easy to create such tables and charts using a reporting tool, but it is complicated to embed them to Word documents. Traditionally there are two methods. One is to export the finished report and chart as a Word document and

esProc can not only prepare and compute data, but also call the external library ReportLite to generate reports with complex format. Environment configuration Download and Install ReportLite Download ReportLite from the official website, decompress the zip file and install it directly. After installation, a trial license is provided, allowing you to use ReportLite directly. Configure external library Create a new directory ‘extlib\ReportLiteCli’ under the esProc installation directory\esProc\ (you can also put ReportLiteCli in another directory, as long as you can find it when setting in esProc tool). Copy the following jars from ReportLite installation directory\reportlite\lib to the newly created extlib\ReportLiteCli