Standard MS Access reports are easy to use but have several limitations as you know.
- Poor set of graphic objects you can use. So the design of standard MS Access reports can look tediously and similar.
- When you want to export the report instead of printing them. Using the built in MS Access function you can export MS Access to MS Word but you loose all graphics object by this method, the MS Word document contains only text.
- Third party add-ins which export MS Access report in PDF for example still produce very poorly designed reports.
MS Access reports created using AceHTML Reports are not limited by design or export functions.
AceHTMLReports creates reports in HTML code, so you can immediately send it by email or publish it to a web site.
The example below shows how a report is designed using AceHTMLReports.
AceHTMLReports creates a report based on an HTML template.
The Process of HTML template creation is very similar to the creation of a standard MS Access report.
Structure of HTML template:
HTML Header
[Report Header]
[Page Header]
[Group 1 Header]
[Group 2 Header]
.
[Group n Header]
Body
[Group n Footer]
.
[Group 2 Footer]
[Group 1 Footer]
[Page Footer]
[Report Footer]
HTML Footer
Examples below illustrate the how to design an HTML template
We used
Notepad++
for creating of HTML templates with
user defined language.
