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Kexi

Plugins

Reports

Introduction

The Kexi Report plugin allows for the creation of dynamic page-based business reports from data held within the database.

Data can be ordered independently to how it is stored, and the reports can be structured with groups, headers and footers.

Concepts

Many of the concepts are similar to those in similar applications such as Microsoft Access, Oracle Reports and the LibreOffice Report Builder.

Sections

A report contains at least one section, the detail section. This section is repeated for every row in the data set that makes the report. Additional sections can be added to increase the structure of the report, such as group-header, group-footer, report-header, report-footer, and many types of page-header/footer.

Items

Fields in the data set can be represented by Items in the report. An item is added to one of the report sections. Some items do not need to be associated with a data field, such as the Label item, which shows static text.

Scripting

Although many report formats can be created using just the report gui designer, fully dynamic and advanced layouts can be created using code snippets that run on an event based system when the report is rendered.

Extensibility

Although the report system in Kexi is a plugin to the main Kexi application, it itself has a plugin system that allows for the addition of new Item types. Some of the default items are built-in, and some are plugins, such as the Barcode and Chart items.

Sections

The following is the list of all possible section types: detail group-header group-footer report-header report-footer page-header-any page-header-even page-header-odd page-header-even page-header-first page-header-last page-footer-any page-footer-even page-footer-odd page-footer-even page-footer-first page-footer-last

Items

The following is the list of all built-in item types Label Field Text Image Check Line The following is the list of all shipped item plugins Chart Barcode Web Map