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"Serious Reporting Made Easy!"
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Creative Reporting Tools from CPCS provides Clarion developers with easy to use capabilities that enhance and simplify their ability to create sophisticated reports in a fraction of the time it would take without using CPCS. Creative Reporting Tools has been the reporting tool of choice for Clarion developers longer than any other 3rd party reporting tool for Clarion.

The extensive list of features and capabilities, coupled (when needed) with the extra functionality provided by the various optional speciality addon products available from CPCS, gives Clarion developers the tools needed to quickly and efficiently produce their reports.

CPCS has been providing reporting solutions and support for Clarion developers since 1995, longer than any other Clarion 3rd party reporting vendor.

Creative Reporting Tools is compatible with both ABC and Clarion (Legacy) template chains, and is also compatible with virtually every other recognized, template driven, 3rd party reporting product available for Clarion.

Product Update History

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V6.30, v5.57h, v5.16

3/31/2008

Corrected problem caused by HP C7250 printers returning more paper codes than the CPCS PaperSupported() function could handle. Expanded maximum number of returned papercodes from 64 to 150.

v6.30

2/8/2008

Changed variable that holds saved printer device info from 64 to 128 bytes (because it was too short in some Citrix/TS environments and would cause a GPF).

OfloMgr OM1.0

11/7/2007

Fix probelm that caused link errors when making app in LOCAL mode.

ClarioNET vCN1.3

8/9/2007

Corrected issue that caused app to GPF when exiting the CPCS Cnet Previewer. Added more descriptive text to the search success dialog.

v6.30 (C6.3 only)

8/9/2007

Added more descriptive text to the search success dialog.

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CPCS is used by thousands of Clarion programmers to help them easily create and maintain the kinds of sophisticated and complicated reports needed in today's business world.

CPCS provides absolute control of break level processing, and many, many more features necessary to allow creation of truly professional quality reports. With CPCS you can easily create multi-sequence/multi-break level reports in a single procedure.

Use the built-in View designer to define any custom view relationships and ordering you require, and/or drop in the LoopThruAssociatedFile template to provide child/grandchild file processing to infinite levels.

Use the many drop-in templates included in the product to easily do things like: lookup and save/print multiple fields from other files; read/write/display/print images in blobs; filter reports with picklists at runtime; print textboxes that automatically overflow pages when necessary; print reports from data stored in memory queues, …

Only CPCS gives YOU, the developer, the power and flexibility to create reports with the features, functionality, and maintainability demanded by today's business world!

CPCS' Creative Reporting Tools: "Serious Reporting Made Easy!"

Creative Reporting Tools gives you the reporting capabilities you�ve been looking for:

	Define BREAK/TOTALING criteria, with Headers and Footers for each level, and Embed Code and/or Formulas to be executed before/after any break occurs.
	Easily define custom VIEWs/JOINs, and ORDERing
	Optionally create PDF file and Email it via optional add-on
	Optionally create PDF file and Email it via optional add-on
	Email support available via optional add-on
	Faxing (WinFax) support available via optional add-on
	Control up to 3 CPCS or User Defined Add-ons from the Preview via customizable buttons
	Ability to concatenate multiple reports into a single report via optional add-on.
	Supports SV Report Target output capability (C6.1 & v6.11 or higher)
	Loop thru Associated files (Parent/Child/Child… reporting)
	Automatically overflow TextBoxes across multiple pages
	Many preformatted Portrait, Landscape, Label, BusCard reports
	Print specific pages from preview (for instance: 1-3, 5, 6, 10-22)
	Print Reports from a QUEUE (ascending or descending)
	"Print this record" capability from Browse or Form
	Print Reports from a QUEUE (ascending or descending)
	"Print this record" capability from Browse or Form
	Drop-In support for Name/Address "Blank Line Suppression"
	Output to precisely formatted Excel/Ascii files via optional addon
	Output report's text to an ASCII file
	Option to turn off ability to cancel preview without printing report
	Option to turn off ability to minimize the preview at runtime
	Option to select destination printer while previewing report
	Display ANIMATED status window while report is spooling
	ProgressBar, Spinner, or Animations on progress window
	Turn preview on/off at runtime by testing a variable
	Zoom preview by clicking area of the page to be zoomed in on
	Search for text across all pages of report while in the preview
	Optional WinWord (e.g. continuous page-to-page) style scrolling available in preview
	Print current page while remaining in the preview
	Multiple copies even if printer doesn't support copies
	International support for prompts and strings in all dialogs
	Customizable Prompts, Icons and ToolTips in the previewer
	List Marking procedure for use in filtering reports
	Fast Dot Matrix Printing support
	Supports Web Builder, ClarioNET, and IConnect
	PageOverflow control and PageNo access via optional addon