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General Principles of Programming using the Report Assembly

The Report assembly is used to work with regular reports. Fore programming with the use of this assembly is sequential creating, opening and setting up a report.

The process of working with a regular report consists of the following steps:

To create a report, use the IMetabase.CreateObject method.

To open a report:

In the view mode, use the IMetabaseObjectDescriptor.Open method.
In the edit mode, use the IMetabaseObjectDescriptor.Edit method.

After creating or opening the existing report the following operations are available:

Selecting regular report data source.
Setting up data slice, data area, analytical data area.
Setting up style formatting of data area, controls and report objects.
Setting up page parameters and report export.