Creating an export component

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UNICOM Intelligence Reporter - Survey Tabulation includes several export components:

These components export UNICOM Intelligence Reporter - Survey Tabulation data into formats that can be used by other applications.

The export components are 32-bit, even if you install the x64 64-bit version of UNICOM Intelligence Reporter - Survey Tabulation.

Export components are used by:

▪Table scripting. The script calls the export component using the Exports object, and specifies the values of properties to pass to it. For examples, see Creating a simple table of Age by Gender or Exporting to Microsoft Excel.

▪UNICOM Intelligence Reporter - Survey Tabulation in UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server Admin. The export component includes a graphical user interface in the form of an Exports dialog. The user selects the export component from a drop-down list, and the requested export component is downloaded as a .cab file, then installed and registered on the user's machine. The user sets the values of properties for the export component using the options in the dialog. For more information on exporting from UNICOM Intelligence Reporter - Survey Tabulation. see the UNICOM Intelligence Reporter - Survey Tabulation help in UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server Admin.

If UNICOM Intelligence Reporter - Survey Tabulation does not include the export component that you need, you can create your own in Microsoft Visual Studio, using the UNICOM Intelligence Reporter - Survey Tabulation Export wizard. The wizard is a Visual Studio project template that creates all of the files required for an ATL control to export UNICOM Intelligence Reporter - Survey Tabulation output to another format. After you have created the files using the wizard, you can fill in the appropriate functions to build your own export component. Alternatively, you can change an existing export script.

Creating an export component using the UNICOM Intelligence Reporter - Survey Tabulation Export Wizard

To create the export component, see:

1 Creating a Visual Studio Project

2 Adding the export logic

3 Testing the Export component

4 Deploying the Export component

After you have followed these steps, the export component is available to use in UNICOM Intelligence Reporter - Survey Tabulation and UNICOM Intelligence Professional Tables Option along with the existing export components.

Changing an export component

When you change an existing export component, you do not need to use the Export Wizard. However, you might find it useful to create a dummy project using the wizard, so that you can use the test files that the wizard creates to test your changes. A suggested method of working is:

1 Working with existing Export components

2 Creating a Visual Studio Project to generate test files.

3 Testing the Export component using the test files created by the wizard and selecting the existing component that you have changed.

4 Deploying the Export component

Before you begin

1 Install Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 7.0 or 2003.

2 Install the UNICOM Intelligence Reporter - Survey Tabulation Export Wizard. When you install the UNICOM Intelligence Developer Documentation Library(DDL), which includes this documentation, the UNICOM Intelligence Reporter - Survey Tabulation Export Wizard is automatically installed in your Microsoft Visual Studio installation location. If you install Visual Studio after you install the DDL, you must reinstall the DDL to install the Export Wizard.