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Actuate reporting system can be implemented in different ways:
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Web based template
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This is the easiest implementation method, Actuate provides a set of ACHTML (HTML) templates. By installing the report cast in a web server it takes care of publishing the reports over the web. Report case come with a very easy user friendly template, through which the users can easily navigate through the Report server components.
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OEM integration
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Lot of software application provides Actuate as an integrated reporting system. Each user uses actuate in different ways. Most of the applications uses Actuate report viewer to use the reports. Some OEM providers customizes the viewer as their integrated product. These products uses API calls from their application to invoke actuate components through acrq & acrs
Dlls.
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In some circumstances the parameters to the report is taken by the 3 rd party application all the parameter passing & report execution will take place in the background. User will see the final out put only.
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JSP, ASP or javascript front templates
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These are some of the commonly used front end scripting tools. The above mentioned tools are used to accept parameters, building a dropdown & checking the user access rights etc. Application can check the user access rights with the database also
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