Java

Reporting Engine

A powerful report engine that pulls data from XML or SQL databases.

 

AutoTag Design Tool

AutoTag enables users to design their reports in Microsoft Word or Excel. AutoTag integrates within Word and Excel making reporting quick and easy.

 

.NET

Reporting Engine

A powerful report engine that pulls data from XML or SQL databases.

Free Demo - Windward Reports
The Pinnacle of Reporting - Fast, Easy, and Powerful - Save Developer Time by Giving Business Users More Freedom

AutoTag Release Notes

These notes are also in the readme.rtf file that is included with the program.

6.1.0.0 (Beta)

New Features

  • Vertical text working for HTML, XLS(X) (all outputs now supported)

Bug Fixes

  • Numbering list text start now correct.
  • Microsoft Excel dates off by one day – fixed.
  • Bullet position for non-left alignment – fixed.

6.0.5.0

New Features

  • Completely new code for part of the engine that handles soft line & page breaks - mainly used by PDF and TXT output.
  • Vertical text now supported. (HTML & Excel not supported in this version, but will be in next release).

Bug Fixes

  • Numbered lists in the form 1.2.3 starting with the 2nd or later number being incremented, preceding numbers were 0 for a PDF report - fixed
  • Numbers and dates a written “raw” from out tags for Excel output. Will always use cell formatting - only if out tag is only data in cell.

6.0.4.1

New Features

  • (Excel Supported) Tabs in XML data now expanded into tabs.
  • Last 5 data connections saved in drop-down in AutoTag.

Bug Fixes

  • Break=sheet/page/odd/even and name='${var}' - name for break='sheet' only.
  • Hard row page breaks in Excel supported.
  • Hard column page breaks supported in XLSX output only.

6.0.3.4

New Features

  • Added Start Here popup to AutoTag

Bug Fixes

  • Sometimes wrong font was used for Asian and bi-directional output in RTF and PDF - fixed.
  • If Excel output had a cell with a number and then to it's right did not have a number, the number would get copied - fixed.
  • Writing cell values in forms other than 12345.67 – fixed
  • Updated help files

6.0.3.2

Bug Fixes

  • Evaluate in AutoTag would not apply formatting when displaying an out tag's results - fixed.
  • XLSX templates with column widths set for more columns than in the worksheet would add in those extra columns - fixed
  • If a Word style was used only in a list and it was based on a style that was only used in the based on, threw an exception - fixed.

6.0.3.0

Bug Fixes

  • Could not handle empty worksheets in SpreadsheetML output - fixed.
  • Excel template to Excel output now supports fit to page & scale output page.
  • XLS output now set to correct orientation and page size.
  • XLSX reports with images that had no extension in the filename displayed an error when opened - fixed.
  • Added support for footers in XLS output (was previously headers only).
  • Addes support for full formatting in XLS headers & footers
  • Numbers over 999,999,999 were stored as 0 for the cell value in XLS and XLSX output - fixed
  • XLS reports now support cell color fills and borders
  • PDF reports from XLSX templates would insert blank pages if the first row of a new page had empty cells - fixed
  • Multiple sheets in XLS output would shift the start of subsequent sheets down to the row after the previous sheet ended - fixed.
  • Multiple sheets in XLS output would keep writing the sheet name to the first sheet - fixed.

6.0.2.0

Bug Fixes

  • If change tracking is on in template, it will be on in created Word documents.
  • PDF reports with consecutive paragraphs with identical borders and shading had borders drawn around each individual paragraph - fixed
  • Hyperlinks across multiple cells in an XLSX template could throw an exception creating document (IE not XLSX, XLS) reports.
  • Excel number formatting handled some formats incorrectly if the number's value was 0 - fixed.
  • Did not recognize bold and underline in XLSX templates - fixed
  • Significantly sped up handling IF tags that evaluate false (and forEach with 0 rows).
  • Use Big5 instead of Cp950 for traditional Chinese charset in RTF output

6.0.1.1

Bug Fixes

  • Next/prev tag in MS Excel - fixed (MS Excel.Find bug).
  • Links now carry across cells.
  • Positioned images displayed correctly in DOCX.
  • Charts in MS Excel default to 1/2 the sheet width.
  • Now handles adjusting references inside forEach loops.
  • Set cell value if the text is a number regardless of source.

6.0.1.0

New Features

  • Full image support now available in Excel templates.
  • New Samples and Help System
  • Excel average() function

Bug Fixes

  • Select replaced with 0 length string (disables select).
  • Could not open XLSX & DOCX files (extra read error) – Fixed.
  • Inserting a tag and then clicking next/prev caused problems in saving tags – Fixed.
  • XPath query has 0 rows, can still use in other XPath

6.0.0.1

New Features

  • AutoTag Implemented in Microsoft Excel

Bug Fixes

  • Charts in table with no height set will not display – fixed.
  • Menu exception in MS Excel 2003 on startup – fixed.
  • Bug in previous/next tag in MS Word – fixed.

5.1.8

New Features

  • XML datasource root directory implemented

Bug Fixes

  • Docx output with images in the .NET engine & AutoTag did not work – fixed.

5.1.7

Features

  • Selecting write as text forces on the 2 text scan checkboxes in options
  • Cell padding implemented

Bug Fixes

  • Editing a datasource initializes datasource name and base path
  • Changing the connection to a datasource when starting a template, changes are now saved.
  • AutoTag validation on chart tags failed if no report had previously been run – fixed.
  • Write tags as text radio button checked when editing options if it was set is not set - fixed.
  • OleDb Datasource browse button placement fixed.
  • Chart title font size wrong when turned on – fixed.
  • If needed to insert empty cells in a row for a matrix tag, an exception is throw if  table contained less columns than number to be inserted – fixed.

5.1.6

Bug Fixes

  • Validate in AutoTag did not match end tags (foreach, link, if) with start tag if a named datasource was present.
  • Tag editor did not see end of forEach tags if named datasource was present.
  • Find dialog does not close when moving the caret in the document.
  • Changed property names for row and column (matrix) tags.
  • Bug in font size when Normal style does not set it's font size in WordML – fixed.
  • AutoTag creates an incorrect select when using an attribute that was several levels deep under a forEach variable - fixed.
  • DOCX reports generated incorrect mapping for reports with metafiles - fixed.

5.1.5

Bug Fixes

  • "Could not load AutoTag profile from document." displays when a 4.X document is open with 5.X – Fixed.
  • Custom attributes in Tag Builder cannot save tag – fixed.
  • Templates loosing datasource information when closing and reopening – fixed
  • Validation shows errors which are not truly errors – fixed.
  • User prompted when datasource is moved from specified location.

5.1.4

New Features

  • Implemented bookmarks and watermarks capability for PDF output

Bug Fixes

  • Improved DOCX support
  • Function tag count=0 now returns "0" – Fixed
  • List styles in WordML and DOCX - Fixed
  • Workaround for infinite loop in AutoTag when accessing header in Word 2003 - Fixed

5.1.3

Bug Fixes

  • File MetaDataElement was genereated with obfuscation – fixed it is now not obfuscated.
  • Improved exception messages in AutoTag for Matrix Tag.

5.1.0.0

Bug Fixes

  • File MetaDataElement was genereated with obfuscation – fixed it is now not obfuscated.
  • Improved exception messages in AutoTag for Matrix Tag.

5.0.4.2

New Features

  • Initial Support for docx templates and output. VERY LIMITED in Beta Release

Bug Fixes

  • Display='boolean expression' not working for xml datasources in the .NET engine - fixed.
  • When going to edit a header or footer Word could lock up - fixed.
  • Next/Prev tag handles title correctly
  • title= now works for end tags ( , etc).
  • Chart axis set to percent now shows 12.3%
  • Changes in some wording in AutoTag.

5.0.4.1

  • Image appears as first item in multiple columns causes exception - fixed.
  • OleDb datasource in AutoTag - several bugs fixed.
  • Illegal property entered in AutoTag, can now correct and save.
  • Bug generating report in AutoTag using a Locale and having out tag with currency fixed.

5.0.4.0 (General Availability)

New Features

  • This version is feature complete for AutoTag 5.0.
  • Added the enables, title, and comment property to each tag.
  • Changed the logging to list out tag parsing and data substitution and the paragraph each occurs in.

next steps

Run a Sample Report

Windward and AutoTag

AutoTag Demonstration

customer spotlight