DESENVOLVIMENTO DE UMA FERRAMENTA PARA CONSTRUIR DINAMICAMENTE RELATÓRIOS NO CRYSTAL REPORTS.

The use of tools has always been necessary since the beginning of computing, due to repetitive tasks or due to complexity when they were made manually. Because of this, there were several kinds of development tools over the time. Nowadays, CASE tools can generate several kinds of artifacts such as forms, source code, documentation and diagrams. However, the report building process is still done by the developer, where he needs to create layout and to add the items what he wants, assembling the report (artifact). This paper describes a tool that generates this software artifact, through the manipulation of objects in the Crystal Report dynamic link library (used for reporting purposes). To generate the artifact templates are used as a base from which visual information are copied, which simplify the definition and improve reuse. The developed architecture is modular and allows the tool to be attached by application developer or to work in conjunction with CASE generators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]