I am currently working on a database that contains two tables: tblAuthor and tblBooks. I am looking for a way to generate a timline look with a strong visual emphasis. I do not know all the possible oulets for creating reports in Access and any advice (including give up this isn't possible) would be welcome. I am hoping to format it similarly to a Gantt chart.
If there is anyway of doing this, or if you have any other suggestions please let me know!!
I work for a company that develops Gantt chart controls. We still develop, maintain and support an ActiveX Edition, which seamlessly integrates into Access. Here is an overview of some key features of the general control:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxc4-R1Kn_4&feature=plcp
If these features do what you want your Gantt to do, then you can download a free trial version from our website. You then should also download the samples collection as this also will provide you with an example of how to directly embed the control into Access. However, make sure that you download the ActiveX version (you have to register first before downloading): http://www.netronic.com/gantt/gantt-software/free-gantt-chart.html
Hope this helps. If you have questions, please send an email to support#netronic.de, and mention the stackoverflow post from Martin. Good luck with your project :-)
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SonarSource has said that they would be dropping support for Ruby on Rails. So assuming that we would need to use Web APIs from here onwards, what are alternate ways of writing your widgets? Has anyone tried any alternate ways of writing one? And how do you link said widget to the UI?
Short answer:
In upcoming versions of SonarQube, widgets and customizable dashboards will be progressively be removed. You will still be able to use the Web APIs to get all the data you want but you won't be able to contribute changes to the "dashboards" of the product.
Long answer:
SonarQube was initially designed to be able to inject and display any kind of information, mostly thanks to the customizable dashboards and widgets (that are indeed written in Ruby). While this helped getting widespread, the downside is that people started using it as a multi-purpose aggregator and reporting tool. One would add information coming from a bug tracker system, another one would add documentation information about projects, ...etc. The consequence is that soon, the global and project dashboards ended up being full of useless and useful information, everything mixed up together in a big mess.
So something had to be done to get back to what SonarQube is meant for: managing source code quality. Every information that can't be precisely linked to a source file should not end in SonarQube. Having said this, it becomes obvious that having a mechanism to define custom dashboards and widgets is just too generic. The web application must provide features that answer precise needs for a precise audience. This is why customizable global and project dashboards are progressively replaced by "hard-coded" pages which answer those use cases. This started with the new project home page introduced in the 5.x series of SonarQube and available in the latest 5.6 LTS. And we'll do the same with global dashboards in the 6.x series.
I have done a fair bit of Automation programming using Access to drive the operations of other Office programs. This has been straightforward because the references needed are specific Microsoft programs and I get help learning the type libraries from the Developer Reference Help pages and exploring the classes, methods, and properties in the object browser.
I've also used type libraries from Lotus Notes and Adobe Acrobat to integrate specific functions of those programs, but I needed to use SDKs to understand those objects and methods.
Now I'm looking to automate a web browser control in future projects. I can find specific code samples if I search very specific topics, like [vba] http post web form, but what I'm really looking for is a higher-level review of type libraries and active-X controls. I've found snippets of code using SHDocVw and MSHTML, but I am looking for some guidance on which type libraries to use in this area and how to explore other possibilities.
I have used the Web Browser control in Access 2010, which I believe uses the Microsoft Internet controls reference.
Please see the following screenshot for more information. Note the code changes the zoom of the Web Browser so that an image zooms to fit.
http://screencast.com/t/WsqWTlZRnh
The documentation I found referring to the object used is at the following location:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa752127(v=vs.85).aspx
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I know this one's been done to death, but most of the onces I've found on SO have been open source. For this particular project I'm willing to spend the money to get the quality, ease of use and support. The less hassle it is to setup and to create new templates the better.
The system I'm building will need to be able to output custom reports including some simple bar charts and graphics. These will all need to be able to output to PDF as well. Again, the less implementation time there is for these reports in regards to PDF conversion, the better.
I've seen PrinceXML (http://princexml.com) and am impressed so far. What I want is at least one other good premium option to compare to.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance
I always recommend wkhtmltopdf. It's Free, but supports just about everything thanks to its webkit roots... up to and including script that alters the HTML.
Here is a commercial one I have worked on. Great support if I say so myself.
Comes with a friendly web services interface so you can use it from most development environments and languages.
I have an application, and now it's the time to write the user help document. I need at least 3 features:
An offline UserHelp.chm;
An online version index.html;
Clicking "help" on any winform can guide the user to a specified help page.
So what kind of tools (HTML workshop?) are perfect for my project, and how to do? I appreciate if you can give me some general guidelines.
For requirement #1 and #2, I recommend you to use SandCastle. It can generate chm file as well as ASP.NET pages. Most importantly, this project is still active and maintained by Microsoft.
For requirement #3, you can google "context sensitive help winform". You should be able to find a lot of references. Here is one of them from code project
If it must not be free of charge, I heard good things about Help & Manual: http://www.ec-software.com/
Helpware is another wellknown vendor: http://www.helpware.net/
Check out Helpinator, it's good too, but less expensive and has free edition.
I need to write on-line help (Eclipse help format) for an Eclipse plugin. I tried out the evaluation of Help Composer that comes as part of RCP Developer from Instantiations and it pretty much does what I am looking for. However at $500 per license it's way overkill and over budget for my needs.
Surely there must be some other tool for managing the help project, assembling the various files, table of contents, and editing the html documents using WYSIWYG.
Does anybody have any suggestions for what plugin(s) I should add to a basic Eclipse 3.5 install to give me full authoring capability?
Thanks in advance!
I know that my solution is not entirely what you need, but you should have a look at Mylyn Wikitext .
It uses a simple markup with good editor support and is also capable of exporting to Eclipse Help format.
I gave up looking for free since all the available tools have a lot of shortcomings.
I decided to use Adobe RoboHelp 8 since it has one of the nicest editors that I found. However, the main benefit for me has been that it automatically updates links in all pages if I rename or move a topic (which I do a lot).
When I want to generate the Eclipse Help file, I use the script that they provide.
For a large documentation project, we used Latex in combination with plastex. This allowed us to generate PDF, Eclipse Help and HTML from the same sources. Cross Referencing, which seems like an issue for some readers, is handled, as well as indexing and other cool stuff. Getting it to work was a bit tedious, but it was a good solution, as the documentation contained a lot of formulas.
This was an open source project, so everything is available - feel free to use and adapt as you see fit:
Result (HTML, PDF, Eclipse Help: http://handbook.event-b.org/
Code: https://sourceforge.net/p/rodin-b-sharp/svn/HEAD/tree/trunk/Handbook/
I don't think it exists in eclipse, but try the MS one (free):
Here is the info: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms670169(VS.85).aspx
Here is the download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=00535334-c8a6-452f-9aa0-d597d16580cc
Then you can convert to eclipse format: http://home.amnet.net.au/~ghannington/hh2e/hh2e-readme.html