PDF Report

By default, Iron Speed Designer’s Application places an “PDF Report” button in Show Table panels, such as is found on a Show Table page.

Exported Data Rows

Only the rows in the currently displayed data set are included in the PDF report.  This is convenient for end-users who perform a search using the Search control and wish to export only the data subset that matches the search.

Exported Data Columns

The exported rows include all data fields displayed in the associated table control; fields that are not displayed are not exported.  There are several caveats:

Column Type

Caveat

Date fields

Date fields are exported as per their display format strings and will be exported as they are displayed in the Show Table panel.

The default format is m/d/yyyy

Foreign key fields

Foreign key fields are exported as shown in the table panel.  If the “display foreign key as” is set for the field, then the selected text field will be exported instead of the underlying key value.

Password fields

Password fields are exported as shown in the table panel.

Large text fields

Large text fields, such as the Memo field in Microsoft Access and the nText data type in Microsoft SQL Server, are exported as text strings.

Binary and image fields

Binary fields, such as Image and BLOB's (binary large object), are not exported.

The column order in the exported file is the same as the column order in the database table schema.

The exported data includes column headings in the first row.

See Also

Creating Your First Application

Function Buttons

PDF Report

Microsoft Word Report

Export to Microsoft Excel

Export to ASCII CSV