Lennox Computer
Software Design
Installation & Support
Unit 8, 121 Newmarket Road WINDSOR, QLD 4030
Phone: 07 3857 5588, Fax: 07 3857 6100
http://www.lennox.com.au eMail: sales@lennox.com.au
LILAC reports run as independent processes on the LILAC Server and transmit their output to a client window on the LILAC workstation PC.

The data which may consist of hundreds or thousands of pages, is presented in a high performance scrolling window using virtual memory, on the client PC to store the report image.

The servers role, and resource commitment on the server ends with the completion of output of the report data to the client window.
Save to Excel
The File -> Save menu is available in the LILAC report window, to create a Microsoft Excel version of the report data. Excel is invoked, and the data transferred directly, the data is not in fact "saved" to the hard drive of the workstation to achieve this, though of course it may subsequently be saved as any supported Excel format from within the Excel window.

Once the data is in the Excel context the operator is at liberty to reformat it, and introduce formulae and calculations as desired, and of course exploit Excel's formidable graphing and charting capabilities.

The column names, widths etc are preset by the report writer, and the resulting Excel spreadsheet is ready to roll without any significant parsing or reformatting of the column layout.