Rave Publisher I

Course Description

Audience
This course addresses developers not familiar with Rave Publisher.

Prerequisites
Rave I

Duration
Due to technology changes in the report language, this course is now offered as a self-study course.

Course goals
The course gives you a thorough introduction to Rave Publisher. After completing the course you will be able to:

• understand and maintain existing reports
• create new reports
• use Rave iterators in reports

Course topics

• Objects in PDL (Page Definition Language)
  • text
  • boxes
  • lines
  • rows and columns
  • springs
  • rulers/aligns
  • attachments
  • bitmaps
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• Rave expressions
  • if-then-else
  • repeat
  • index
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• Formatting
  • text formatting
  • headers and footers
  • page breaks
  • alignment
  • line breaks
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• Designing reports
• • identify building blocks and iterators
  • decide on alignment
  
  
• The M4 pre-processor
  
• The report directories
  • place reports correctly
  • re-use report definitions
  • hidden reports

All exercises are done using a generic flight data and rule set (Carmen Airlines).