Sameer S. Kulkarni

This article discusses a service that will help you bring into existence something that's been only a dream functionality for many of us: generic DataWindow retrieval. First we'll focus on the techniques that led to this solution, then use the service to build a powerful and flexible architecture for deploying reports. The significance of generic retrieval relates to the workings of a very handy and frequently used feature of PowerBuilder's DataWindow control: the retrieval arguments. Retrieval arguments provide us with a means to pass data from the "outer environment" to the DataWindow's internal logic. Unfortunately, PowerBuilder needs us to include these retrieval arguments in the Retrieve function call - thus any actual Retrieve call must be specific to a given DataWindow object. You can't code a generic functionality pertinent to data retrieval through any Dat... (more)

Report Deployment Using Generic DataWindow Retrieval

This article discusses a service that will help you bring into existence something that's been only a dream functionality for many of us: generic DataWindow retrieval. First we'll focus on the techniques that led to this solution, then use the service to build a powerful and flexible architecture for deploying reports. The significance of generic retrieval relates to the workings of a very handy and frequently used feature of PowerBuilder's DataWindow control: the retrieval arguments. Retrieval arguments provide us with a means to pass data from the "outer environment" to the Da... (more)