The Vertec reporting system

Vertec can generate reports. Vertec provides a variety of reports as standard: All vertec reports at a glance.

There is also the option to design and run custom reports directly from Vertec.

For this purpose, an Office report system is available, with which Word, Excel and PDF reports can be created and printed.

Vertec provides an office-based, cloud-ready report generator. The Office reports are based on a report definition in the form of Python code. Office reports are generated by Vertec on the server side and the resulting documents are delivered to the apps in Word, Excel or PDF formats.

Office reports are

✔ performant
✔ cloud-ready

and are available in all full-featured apps.

For more information, see the article about Office Reports.

For Vertec versions up to 6.5.

Vertec’s Word reporting mechanism allows you to design custom reports in Microsoft Word and run them directly from Vertec.

A Word report is always based on a Word document template. This report template contains, in addition to normal text, special elements with OCL expressions, which are evaluated when the report is run and populated with the corresponding report data.

Word reports can be generated either by Office or by Vertec.

Office-generated and Vertec-generated Word reports differ only in the way they are generated, not in the template.

Legacy Word reports should always be used Vertec-generated. We recommend using Office Reports instead.

For more information, see Legacy Word Reports.  

Legacy Excel reports are always Office-generated and based on an Excel template. Unlike Legacy Word reports, however, there is no built-in Vertec report generator for Legacy Excel reports. A Legacy Excel report must contain a macro written specifically for the report, which is responsible for inserting the report data.

Legacy Excel reports are generated locally on the client and output as an Excel document. This requires an Office installation on the client. Legacy Excel reports are therefore only available in the desktop app and in the cloud app if there is a local Excel installation and a COM interface installed on the client.

Since legacy Excel reports are poorly performing due to communication via COM, we recommend using Office Reports with Excel output instead.

For more information, see the article about Excel reports.

* Available if the client has a COM interface installed and an Office installation.

In order for reports to appear in the Drucken menu in Vertec, they must be registered in Vertec.

Registered reports are located in Vertec in the settings > Report Templates folder.