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What happened to the Report Designer of the XSLT Report Tool?

AngelaIp

Hi,

I found this historic document from 2007 describing how to use the XSLT Report Tool in Aras Innovator 8.1.

https://www.aras.com/support/documentation/8.1.1/Other%20Documents/Aras%20Innovator%208.1%20-%20XSLT%20Report%20Tool%20Users%20Guide.pdf

I really like the document! It's like a journey through time. Back to a time when software was all designed in the same standard gray color. 

And I also made an interesting discovery. In the past, the report buider included some kind of report designer for the Stylesheet!

Does anybody know what happended to the Report Designer? It´s was available till Aras Innovator 9.3, but suddenly disappeard in version 9.4 (2013) and never was seen again. 

Is it still available somewhere in Aras?

Best regards!

Angela

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  • Hi Eli,

    I have heard, that Visual Studio offers a similar design option. So it´s maybe possible to use Visual Studio for designing reports and than just copy&paste the result to Aras. If this is true, it´s understandable why Aras removed the report designer, as there are maybe more powerful options avaiable that are more long time stable and easier to maintain.

    I am familiar with the reports designer we can use for SSRS reports. But so far I mainly used it in combintation with content from SQL queries, not with content from XML/AML queries. 

    Are you familiar with this kind of option? Using Visual Studio for XSLT reports would be an exellent topic for a blog article. 

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  • Hi Eli,

    I have heard, that Visual Studio offers a similar design option. So it´s maybe possible to use Visual Studio for designing reports and than just copy&paste the result to Aras. If this is true, it´s understandable why Aras removed the report designer, as there are maybe more powerful options avaiable that are more long time stable and easier to maintain.

    I am familiar with the reports designer we can use for SSRS reports. But so far I mainly used it in combintation with content from SQL queries, not with content from XML/AML queries. 

    Are you familiar with this kind of option? Using Visual Studio for XSLT reports would be an exellent topic for a blog article. 

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