Rave Publisher II

Course Description

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

Prerequisites
Rave Publisher I

Duration
Due to technology changes in the report language, this course is now offered as a self-study course.

Course goals
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:

• define ASCII reports
• define reports for Crew Pairing/Crew Rostering Optimizer
• generate reports in batch
• define graphical reports
• get solutions for a few common issues.

Course topics

• Advanced repeat statements
  • contexts
  • indicies
  • iterators
  • transforms
    
    
• ASCII reports
  
  
• Reports for the Optimizers
  
  
• Multi-plan reports
  
  
• Graphical reports
• • bitmaps
  • gnuplot
  • built-in functionality
    
  
  
• Common traps
• • performance aspects
    

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