Audience
This course addresses report administrators with a basic knowledge of Rave Publisher, who want to create advanced reports.

Benefits
The course teaches you the advanced features of Rave Publisher and exposes you to a number of exercises with complex reports. After completing the course you will be able to:

• Fully exploit advanced features such as transforms, contexts, indicies etc.
• Write multi-sub-plan reports
• Create diagram reports using GNU-plot

Prerequisites
You should have a basic understanding of the report module acquired in the course Basic Rave Publisher. A deep knowledge of the Rave language acquired in the course Advanced Rave. You also need some experience working with GPC.

Course topics

• Advanced repeat statements
• Contexts
• Indicies
• Iterators


• Reports for the Optimizers


• Multi-plan reports


• Report Generator in Batch


• ASCII reports


• Graphical reports
• Bitmaps
• GNUplot
• Built-in Functionality


• The preprocessor M4


• Common traps
• Performance aspects

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

Duration
2 days.