HanDBase Reporter for Palm OS & Pocket
PC
Many
HanDBase users have been looking for a report writing application that
would allow them to print their HanDBase information directly from
their PDA. Using HanDBase Reporter they can now design and print
custom invoices, patient records, sales orders, equipment logs,
receipts, survey results or anything else needed, right from HanDBase.
HanDBase Reporter is a tool designed to
allow the HanDBase user to create custom templates that will fill-in
data
collected and stored in HanDBase,
when printing via an infrared, Bluetooth, WiFi or a serial port
connection. The templates may contain typesetting information such as
italics, bold, centering, tables, lists, etc.
HanDBase Reporter comes in two pieces:
Report Templates Manager and Report Templates Printer. The first is an
application that allows the user to design templates using an
integrated editor; all templates in the device can also be
administrated in that same program. The second is mostly transparent to
the end user; it becomes active whenever a user chooses to either Print
Record or Print Records within HanDBase. If multiple report templates
are available for the active database, the user is given the option of
which templates to use and then the printing begins.
Requirements
Currently
supported platforms are the Pocket PC (Microsoft Windows Mobile 3.0 and
above, on ARM based devices) and PalmSource PalmOS (version 3.5 and
above). Reporter includes all the
software components for either of the
platforms to function, which includes printer drivers developed by
Bachmann Software from their PrintBoy Enterprise Edition.
The
user that will be creating the templates should have basic knowledge of
HTML
(HyperText Markup Language). The end users need not have this
experience. Database development and data
type knowledge
of HanDBase is also required. It is assumed that proper setup of the
medium has already been done and that the handheld and the printer are
communicating properly.
PalmOS Edition:
- PalmOS version 3.5 and above.
- At least 400KB of free RAM on device for basic
installation.
- 600KB of free RAM for complete installation,
plus 35KB per printer driver.
- HanDBase for PalmOS version 3.0k and above.
Pocket PC Edition:
- An ARM based processor in the device.
- 1.2MB of available memory on device.
- HanDBase for PalmOS version 3.0k and above.
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